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dollar twenty-five cents per ton. Allowing twenty dollars for Stock- 

 bridge fertilizer, ten dollars for labor, and one dollar per ton for put- 

 ting in the silos (and I have no doubt I raised forty tons to the acre), 

 and now allow ten dollars per acre for any extras there might be, 

 which added makes it cost eighty dollars per acre, or two dollars per 

 ton, packed in silo. 



QUES. What do you consider would be the most practical size 

 and form of silos ? 



ANS. For size and form, it would be best to suit the location. 



QUES. What do }'ou consider the best and cheapest material for 

 building silos? Some are built of brick, some of stone and cement, 

 some of concrete, and some have been built up with plank with quite 

 good success. 



ANS. About the building material, I should say what is handy 

 and the cheapest. 



QUES. Have you opened your silos to feed ensilage to stock? If 

 so, did it come out satisfactory? 



ANS. I opened my silo the first part of November ; and the ensi- 

 lage came out nice, as good as I could wish to have it. 



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

 kind of stock. 



ANS. We feed two bushels to a milch cow, with grain, cotton- 

 seed, and shorts, per da}', and no hay. The dry cows, no grain. The 

 oxen, the same as milch cows. We are feeding five fall calves on 

 ensilage with grain : they look first-rate. We are feeding eleven 

 cows, one bull, live calves, and one pair of oxen, with ensilage. 



QUES. What time of clay do you take ensilage from the silo? 



ANS. We take it from the silo morning and night. We take the 

 rocks off from the planks, and throw the ensilage up on the planks, 

 and take it from there into the barn as wanted. 



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

 feeding it to stock? 



ANS. It is taken out sometimes two or three days ahead, and 

 sometimes right from the solid ensilage. 



QUES. What quantity, and how often, do you feed? 



ANS. We feed two bushels to a milch cow, with grain and shorts, 

 per day. 



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

 corn, or maize, with hay? 



ANS. We are using nine hundred pounds of ensilage per day. 



