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would be $3.75, making a gain per clay of $2.65 in favor of ensilage. 

 In six months' time, or during the feeding season, the gain would be, 

 in favor of ensilage, $518.70 ; and, if fed on ensilage the year round, 

 would show a very handsome gain, which would be $1,037.40, to say 

 nothing of other advantages, increase of milk, butter, and better 

 condition of stock. 



CIIAPTEE XIX. 



CORRESPONDENCE FROM 



ZBiROTHiiEiRyS. 



PORT JERVIS, N.Y., JAX. 27, 1881. 



MR. H. R. STEVENS. 



Dear Sir: 



I have not the time or the ability to answer all of your inquiries, as 

 we have them come from all quarters. We send 3*011 the enclosed 

 report : 



" This morning the Buckley Brothers of this village opened one of 

 their silos on the farm of Charles Buckley, between Port Jervis and 

 Sparrowbush. The ensilage was found to be in fine condition ; and, 

 when fed to the cows, they ate it readily. There had been much 

 speculation as to whether the ensilage would be fit to eat when the 

 silos came to be opened, but there can no longer be any doubt on 

 this subject. 



" Last summer Messrs. Buckley built two silos, to give the ensilage 

 system a test. The silos were put under the cow-stables ; and each 

 was nine by twenty-two feet, and fifteen and a half feet deep, built 

 side by side, with a two-foot wall between them. Into these were 

 put the green corn from about eight acres of land, making between 

 one hundred and twenty and a hundred and forty tons of fodder. 

 The corn-stalks were cut green at the tasselling, and were chopped 

 about half an inch in length. When the silos were filled, a layer of 

 straw was put upon them, and the planks were laid close together, 



