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lie thought the success of raising strawberries for profit was 

 in having a good home market. 



The subject for the afternoon session was "Ensilage and 

 Silos," 1 opened by Rev. O. S. Butler of Georgetown, who 

 is an advocate of the silo, and has given it a great deal of 

 careful study. The different conclusions he alluded to in 

 his essay, be arrived at from the answers to many ques- 

 tions he had sent to different people in a period of the 

 last ten years. 



Mr. Butler made the statement that this method of pre- 

 serving green fodder for winter use, is not a modern in- 

 vention; he made this point to show that the silo is a long 

 established success and not a modern invention. Roots 

 have been preserved in silos for 200 years. Mr. Butler 

 proceeded to give a history of the silo for the last 25 

 years, stating that the first one built in this country was 

 in Winchester County, New York, in 1875, for the storage 

 of Brewers' grain, with success, and afterwards the experi- 

 menter tried fodder corn with such success that he has 

 filled three silos with corn every year since. In 1879 Dr. 

 John M. Bailey of Billerica, built the first silo in New 

 England — now there are forty in Essex County that I have 

 received answers to my questions from, and many more I 

 have not sent to. 



Ensilage may be fed to all kinds of stock with advan- 

 tage. Colts and brood mares thrive on it. Grass, pre- 

 served in boxes, packed tight when cut, on the silo prin- 

 ciple, is voraciously devoured by poultry. The milk and 

 butter made from ensilsge is as good as that from June 

 grass, and more uniform, and ensilage does not give a 

 taste to the milk. 



To get the best results from ensilage it should be fed 

 with some other nutritious dry fodder. All kinds of 

 grass, grain, roots and apples may be used in the silo with 

 success, but corn isjbest. 



There is little choice in the varieties of corn. 



