to produce milk or beef, and somewhat different food, and 

 methods of feeding. If we desire the rapid growth of our 

 young stock so as to fit them for the market at an early age 

 we need a different system of feeding from what we do if wc 

 intend to keep them until they are fully matured and thor- 

 oughly fattened for the stall ; and then it has been thought by 

 some of our farmers that we need a different food for winter 

 than we do for summer use ; and then one man has a farm 

 with a large range of pasturage while another farm has hardly 

 any pasture at all. In one location our lands are worth five 

 hundred dollars per acre, and in another location not more 

 than twenty dollars per acre, with taxes and fencing to cor- 

 respond ; hence, any intelligent judgment must take into the 

 account all of these different causes and conditions ; for what 

 is success for one maybe defeat for many others. 



But we think our most intelligent farmers are gradually 

 coming to the conclusion that green crops in some form are 

 better adapted to produce. milk and butter and beef than any 

 form of dry fodder now in use, and some of our farmers have 

 succeeded admirably by soiling their cows in summer and 

 feeding them principally on roots of some kind in winter; and 

 there can be no doubt but that this system of feeding is both 

 judicious and economical where land is very valuable and 

 capable of producing the largest crops. 



Until very recently the only green crops that could be 

 made available for winter use were the root crops ; and in some 

 localities where the soil was adapted to the root culture, and 

 good reliable fertilizers could be obtained, and at a moderately 

 low price, very large and profitable crops of roots have been 

 produced, and as a supplementary food this crop has given 

 very general satisfaction. But it is not claimed that they are 

 a perfect food in themselves. 



Within the last ten years the attention of our farmers 

 has been called to a new method of preserving green crops for 

 winter use ; we say new method, because although this method 

 was very well understood in some of the countries across the 



