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result may in some degree be compared, I am told, to a poorer 

 quality of Brewer's grains. The kind of corn used affects the 

 quality of the result somewhat, and also the cost. The pro- 

 cess is not a difficult one, but requires exactness and care to 

 secure success. 



As ensilage (a process of cutting up), of green corn appears 

 to offer a cheap and good food for milch cows and other 

 animals, it would seem to be a most fruitful subject for experi- 

 ment and discussion. It must not be forgotton that the French 

 experimenter on this subject. Monsieur Goftart, tells us that 

 other high-growing crops of great yield can be treated in the 

 same way, and names sorghum as another prominent crop for 

 ensilage. This would probably not be advisable in our latitude 

 and cHmate. An interesting translation of Monsieur Goffart's 

 book is published by J. B. Brown, 55 Beekman street, N. Y., 

 with illustrations. 



Much has been written lately as to the cost of raising 

 Indian corn in New England, and the average of crops has 

 been largely increased during the last few years, proving that 

 it has been found profitable for our farmers to raise 

 more corn than had previously been their custom. The value 

 of the dried stover has been variously estimated, and I have 

 seen it named as high as $S a ton, which I believe to be too 

 high. When the weather has been so favorable that it has 

 been housed in a condition to give the greiatest possible amount 

 of nutriment to our stock, we can award it its highest money 

 value in figuring the cost of our corn crop per bushel ; but the 

 weather is generally such that it cannot be housed in first-class 

 order, and under such circumstances what its practical value 

 may be is still an interesting question. Whether it would be 

 of more value cut up when dry, and thus placed before our 

 animals for them to pick out the best part, understanding that 

 the remainder would be most valuable rotted with the manure, 

 or whether it is better to feed it as it comes from the field, and 

 let what is left of the longer stocks take care of themselves 

 in the manure heap, still remains a doubtful question in many 



