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respondeiice with more than one hundred farmers, who have 

 fed ensilage made from corn, rye, clover, and apples mixed 

 with clover, covering a period of seven years, not a single 

 instance has come to our knowledge of the least possible harm 

 resulting to a single animal from the use of ensilage. 



As to the third objection, as to the milk or butter, contain- 

 ing or exhibiting an unpleasant odor, we have this to say : It 

 is a well known fact, that the milk or butter, made from a cow 

 partakes of the quality and character of her food, and if you 

 change her food, the change in her product is immediately 

 apparent. This is especially true when you change from 

 English hay and corn-meal, to salt hay or turnips or cabbages. 

 But the real question of any importance to us is, does ensilage 

 give, an unpleasant or harmful flavor or odor to the product of 

 the animal fed on it ? We think we have the best reasons for 

 stating that it does not. One of the best chemists in this 

 state has stated that the flavor of milk or butter made from 

 good sound ensilage is nearer to that of June butter or milk 

 than any other food; it is certainly very agreeable. 



In regard to the fourth objection, the cost of producing the 

 crops; this has been greatly reduced during the last five years, 

 and while it may not be profitable to plough up a field that is 

 now producing three tons of hay to the acre, it is still true 

 that every farmer has lands in field or pasture that^ieed im- 

 provement by cultivation, and it has been demonstrated that 

 such lands when liberally manured, and thoroughly cultivated 

 can. be made to produce from thirty to fifty tons of ensilage 

 corn, and in two years time leave the land in better condition 

 than before the breaking up. We give you an example to 

 show you what can be done by a rotation of crops ; one of our 

 young farmers ploughed up about two acres of pasture land in 

 October and sowed it to winter rye, with a liberal dressing of 

 Stockbridge fertilizer. On the first day of the next June he 

 commenced harvesting and storing in his silo a very heavy 

 crop of rye. He immediately ploughed up the same field and 

 planted it with corn, southern white, and on the twentieth day 



