78 77. fl. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



If we fed English ha}', it would take more than three hundred pounds 

 per day : 1 think a saving of one-half. 



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

 the milk and butter? 



ANS. I think ensilage is good for milk : as to butter, we make 

 none. 



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

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

 for it? 



ANS. My cows did not all eat it the first day, but by the third 

 day they all ate it. I have a pair of new oxen just bought to-day 

 that will not eat it. Some horses that come here will dive into a 

 basketful up to their eyes. 



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

 cow six months, or through the season for feeding? 



ANS. I think sixty pounds per day will keep a cow. 



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

 lage? 



ANS. The general appearance of cattle is that they gain flesh, 

 and generally look better than when fed on hay. 



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

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

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



ANS. In regard to profit, it will be in raising a large amount of 

 fodder on a small quantity of land. 



Quite a number of questions you ask, I am not prepared to answer. 

 Yours respectfully, 



JACOB P. GOODALE, 



Peabody, Mass. 

 Box 206. 



It seems Mr. Goodale is feeding about twenty head of cattle in all 

 his stock. He feeds nine hundred pounds of ensilage per day. He 

 feeds grain with his ensilage, and would give same if he were feeding 

 hay ; perhaps not as much with ensilage as with hay. If he fed with 

 hay, it would take, as he says, over three hundred pounds per day to 

 take place of ensilage. His ensilage cost him two dollars per ton 

 packed in silo, making cost of nine hundred pounds, ninety cents, 

 a day's feed for his stock. If he fed three hundred pounds of hay, 

 twenty-five dollars per ton is now a low price, the cost per day 



