H. R STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



CHAPTER I. 



WHAT MAKES THE FARMERS HAPPY? 



THE reason is this, by reading this book and following the practical 

 experience of other farmers, who say to all the farmers of the United 

 States, The time has come, brother farmer, when you can earn two 

 dollars at half of the expense that you before earned one dollar, that 

 is, by preserving our green crops by ensilage, by turning our winters 

 into summers for the feeding of our stock ; by giving our cows, in 

 the cold winters, food and nutrition that is equal, if not superior, 

 to the green grass that grows in the warm sunny days of June ; and 

 the result is, in the winter months we have increased quantities of 

 milk, richer in quality, giving us butter of rich color and fine flavor, 

 equalled only by our June butter. And this preserved fodder makes 

 our cattle look better, they thrive better, the young stock will thrive 

 better, they grow faster ; in fact, they do better than when turned 

 into a good pasture in the month of June. And we can and do 

 obtain these great advantages at less cost, less trouble and incon- 

 venience. 



The saving is so great, that we can keep four cows upon better food 

 at no more expense than we have kept one cow. There are other 

 advantages by preserving our green crops for ensilage. 



We are not likely to lose a good part of our forage crop on account 

 of the weather. We can cut our green crops of maize, of rye, of 

 clover, of the grasses, and immediately, while filled with the rich 



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