16 T. It. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



REPORT FROM E. M. WASHBURN OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 



PAGE 



Has silo and ensilage. Hay and ensilage compared. Ensilage as an invest- 

 ment. No reason why thousands of farmers may not make it as profit- 

 able as I have Ill 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



FEEDING OF STOCK. 



Different ways that farmers feed. A very economical way of feeding. 

 Different" ways of feeding with ensilage and grains. Most economical 

 way given. Best way to fatten cattle with ensilage and grains. Most 

 natural food with ensilage and grasses Ill 



CHAPTER XXXY. 



ENSILAGE FOR POULTRY. 



How poultry relish ensilage. Appearance and results, fed on ensilage. 

 Experiments, feeding poultry on ensilage. Cost of feeding poultry. 

 Products of a hundred fowl per year, fed on ensilage. Products of one 

 acre of land of ensilage. Showing how a cow and two hundred fowl 

 can be kept from an acre of land on ensilage, by practical experiments . 112 



CHAPTER XXXYI. 



EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDING STOCK. 



Very valuable and interesting experiments of feeding sixteen head of cattle 

 "for the month of January, 1881, giving the number of each animal, daily 

 rations of each, weight of each, first of month, weight of each, end of 

 month, gain per month, gain per day, gain per cent; every pound of hay, 

 ensilage, straw, corn-meal, rice-corn meal, cotton-seed meal, the quanti- 

 ties and weight of each being given; kind of cattle described: making a 

 very thorough and instructing experiment for a farmer .... 114 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Cuts and descriptive of forage plants: red clover, Hungarian grass, common 



millet, lucerne 116 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



Cash premiums offered for the largest yield of fodder-corn per acre . . . 119 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

 CONCLUSION . 120 



