CORRESPONDENCE OF F. E. LOUD. 69 



QUES. Please give me your experience in feeding to stock, and 

 kind of stock. 



ANS. In one month I fed to three cows, one of them in milk, 

 one hundred and twenty-four cubic feet of ensilage, which should 

 weigh something over three tons. By other experiments, I find that 

 I am feeding about sixty-six and two-thirds pounds per cow daily. 

 What the exact loss of weight is, I have not }*et determined. 



Q UES . What time of the day do you take the ensilage from the 

 silo? 



ANS. We go to the silo every afternoon. 



QUES. How long do you let it stay exposed to the air before 

 feeding it to stock? 



ANS. Take out sufficient for twenty-four hours. 



QUES. What quantity, and how often, do 3*ou feed? 



ANS. Feed night and morning. With this, I have given two 

 quarts of wheat-bran per cow, and have now commenced feeding the 

 same quantity of cotton-seed meal, with a little of the shorts per cow 

 daily. 



QCES. What do you think is the comparative cost of ensilage of 

 corn or maize with hay ? 



ANS. In comparing the cost of feeding ensilage and ha}', I find 

 it to be as follows : 



COST OF ENSILAGE PER DAY. 



66?j pounds of ensilage cost 10J cents. 



3i pouiids of cotton-seed meal costs 4f 



15 cents per day. 

 COST OF HAY PER DAY. 



25 pounds English hay at $22 per ton costs . . 27$ cents. 

 3 pounds cotton-seed meal 4 cents. 



32 cents per day. 

 Cost of ensilage 15 cents per day. 



Difference 17{ cents per day. 



The price of good English hay has averaged with ns twenty-two 

 dollars per ton for several }*ears in the market, and is now worth from 

 twenty-five to twenty-eight dollars per tori. By the above, it will be 

 seen that it costs double to feed with hay, while the difference of the 

 product of an acre cultivated to ensilage crop or hay is still more 

 striking. 



