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I omuls dry hay to each cow ; at noon, fifteen pounds rowen ensilage ; 

 at half -past three, four pounds dry hay ; and at six, thirty pounds 

 corn ensilage, with one quart meal to each cow. 



QUES. What is the effect of ensilage, compared with hay, upon 

 the milk and butter? 



ANS. The milk looks and tastes like milk made in summer : the 

 butter is higher colored, and has an excellent flavor. 



QUES. When you first began to feed your stock on ensilage, did 

 your cattle like it? Did they eat it as though they were hungry 

 for it? 



ANS. The first time we fed it to the cattle, they all took readily 

 to it, except two ; and they did not refuse it more than five minutes. 

 The cattle now all refuse the best English hay or dry rowen when 

 there is any ensilage within their reach. The flow of milk has kept 

 up the same as when fed on rowen ensilage. 



QUES. What quantity of ensilage do you consider will keep a 

 cow six months, or through the season for feeding? 



ANS. I think a cow can be kept through the winter on seven 

 tons and a half corn ensilage, and four hundred pounds shorts ; 

 but think a cow would thrive the best, to feed her five tons and a half 

 of ensilage, fourteen hundred pounds hay, and five hundred pounds 

 corn-meal. 



QUES. What is the general appearance of cattle fed upon ensi- 

 lage? 



ANS. My cattle all look better, and appear more contented, than 

 when fed on dry fodder. 



QUES. What do you consider the difference in the cost of labor, 

 by feeding and caring for the stock, by ensilage and the same by hay? 



ANS. If the silo is convenient to the stable, there is no differ- 

 ence. 



QUES. In regard to the success of ensilage, or preserving of our 

 green crops for fodder for our stock, in what way is it going to be 

 of great benefit, profit, or saving to our farmers ? 



ANS. First, it will enable us to make milk and butter in winter as 

 well as summer. 



Second, it will enable us to winter our stock at one-half the expense 

 of dry fodder. 



Third, we can keep, on the same amount of cultivated land, a much 

 larger stock of cattle, which will increase our supply of manure, so 

 that our farms will increase in fertility and value. 



