58 H. E. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



Go on, and build your silos, and you will be as enthusiastic as those 

 who have already tried it. I am keeping three times the number of 

 cattle that was ever before kept on this, the old homestead ; and I 

 could have had one hundred tons more, without interfering with my 

 other farming, by simply planting five acres more of common corn 

 after haying. 



Respectfully your obedient servant, 



CAPT. G. MORTON, 



Essex, Vt. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



REPORT FROM 



:MI:R/. CL.A_:R,:EC 



POMPTON, KJ. 

 FOB NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 12, 1881. 



REVOLUTION IN DAIRY FARMING. 



ENSILAGE used for food instead of hay. Successful experiments 

 near Pompton, N.J. 



No proposed change in time-honored methods of agriculture has 

 excited so deep an interest among progressive farmers as the recent 

 experiments in preserving green forage crops in silos, or cement- 

 lined pits. One of the earliest adventurers in this new field was Mr. 

 Clark W. Mills, of Arrareek Farm, near Pompton, N.J. ; and his 

 silos are now as extensive as any in the county, and this success last 

 year was so encouraging that he is now wintering one hundred and 

 twenty head of horned cattle and twelve horses, without a pound of 

 hay ; and he is confident that he will bring his entire stock through 

 until May weather furnishes grazing. His store of ensilage (or 

 "cow-kraut," as facetious farmers style the preserved fodder) was 

 gathered from less than thirteen acres of land ; and it is simply the 

 stalks of Indian corn, cut when green into half -inch lengths, and 



