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fifty to sixty pounds of ensilage per day, with six quarts of shorts ; 

 add to this, for milch cows, two quarts of corn-meal : this is for a 

 day's feeding, fed morning and night, at noon half a peck of beets 

 or carrots. Cows that are dry, and young cattle, no meal, turnips 

 iu place of beets or carrots. I had one Jersey cow that gave four 

 quarts of milk per day up to the time of calving. She brought forth 

 a fine healthy calf : the calf is now four weeks old, and has improved 

 as well as, if not better than, when the cow was fed upon hay. The 

 cow has been fed upon ensilage all the time, with six quarts of shorts 

 per day, gives a good flow of milk, and looks finely. 



After taking off the corn- fodder for ensilage, I prepared the 

 ground, and sowed it to rye, with two acres additional. I shall cut 

 the rye while green, and in blossom, put it in silo to feed out during 

 late summer ; after the rye is cut, plant again to corn for ensilage, 

 to be put in silo early in September. I shall build, the coming sea- 

 son, a large silo divided in sections. Explanations given under head 

 of " Building Silos." 



END VIEW OF SILO, SHOWING DOOR. 



