12 H. P. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



ducks, chickens, on ensilage; their fine condition. Showing a gain of 

 three thousand dollars for six months by keeping his stock on ensilage, 

 over any previous year. Cost of labor in feeding with ensilage com- 



Eared with hay. Success of feeding cattle entirely on ensilage without 

 ay or grain. Ensilage the year round 44 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE ADVANTAGE OF GREEN FORAGE CROPS BY ENSILAGE OVER THE 

 SAME IN NATURAL OR GREEN STATE. 



Cost of ensilaging two hundred and fifty tons, by Goffart; cost of same by 

 others. Value of ensilage as food. Comparative value of ensilage and 

 hay for feeding. Practical facts in regard to forage crops and ensilage. 



Table of analysis, green fodder-corn and ensilage. Chemical changes; 

 advantages gained by this change. Its effect upon cows and sucking 

 calves. Mode of fattening cattle with ensilage; quantities and kind 

 given. Secret of the process, and the advantages 49 



CHAPTER XII. 



CORRESPONDENCE FROM CAPT. G. MORTON. 



Kind of corn, and quantity planted per acre. Kinds of phosphate used. 

 Average yield per acre. Cost per acre of raising corn-fodder. Machine 

 used for cutting, and length to cut. Construction of silo; best form and 

 material to build silos. Experience with filling silos; mixing grasses 

 with corn-fodder. Cost per ton of raising and packing in silos. Open- 

 ing of silo, and appearance of ensilage. Mode of feeding, and results. 

 Effect of ensilage on milk and butter; comparative price of butter sold, 

 produced from ensilage, and price of butter made from hay. Quantity 

 of ensilage for each cow per day. Condition of cattle fed on ensilage. 

 Value of ensilage compared with hay ; showing ensilage to be worth as 

 much as hay, ton for ton. Experience of packing corn-fodder whole in 

 trenches; success of same 54 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CLARK W. MILLS' S CORRESPONDENCE. 



Number of acres, and kind of corn planted; method of planting. Time of 

 cutting; length to cut. Size of silo. Cost of raising and packing in 

 silo. Condition of ensilage when taken from silo. Comparative cost 

 of ensilage with hay. Appearance of cattle fed on ensilage. Effect 

 of ensilage on the milk. Six hundred tons of ensilage packed for 

 less than five hundred dollars; value of this compared with hay. 



Showing great success of ensilage ; wintering a hundred and twenty 

 head of horned cattle and twelve horses without a pound of hay. 

 Opinions of some of the most distinguished and influential men in" the 

 State of New York given. A revolution in dairy-farming, stock-raising . 58 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 DR. L. w. CURTIS' s CORRESPONDENCE. 



Mode of preparing land for corn. Planting and raising corn-fodder; kind 

 of corn to plant; quantity per acre. Average yield per acre. Best 

 cutting-machine; length to cut. Construction of silo; cost of silo; best 

 material for building silo; most suitable location. Experience with cut- 

 ting and packing corn-fodder ; with grasses, Hungarian and rowen. 

 Opening of silo, and appearance of ensilage. Quantity of ensilage to 

 keep a cow six months. Condition of cattle fed on ensilage. In re- 

 gard to the success of ensilage. Valuable suggestions given ... GO 



