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CHAPTER XXII. 



CORRESPONDENCE FROM 



:M::R,- o. IB. IFOTTEIR,. 



NEW YORK, N.Y., JAN. 31, 1881. 



H. R. STEVENS, ESQ. 



Dear Sir: 



Though I think my address before the State Agricultural 

 which I mail }'ou, gives pretty fully my experience, I will try to 

 answer your inquiries further, as well as my experience enables me. 



I have practised this S} T stem for three years ; have applied it to 

 common fodder-corn, red clover, pearl-millet, West-India millet, or 

 Guinea-corn, green rye, green oats, and mixed grasses in which 

 clover predominated, with entire success in every case. The last 

 year I preserved about one hundred tons ; and during this summer I 

 have put down about two hundred tons, and have added sorghum 

 and sugar-cane to the varieties of fodder I have before preserved. I 

 have never lost an} r fodder whatever thus preserved ; but, during the 

 whole experiment, it has been perfectly preserved, and better than 

 when fed fresh and green from the field. As the first fermentation is 

 passed in the process, the food thus preserved has no tendency either 

 to scour or bloat the animals fed. It is eaten up eagerly and clean, 

 leaf and stalk, without an} r loss whatever ; and stock thus fed exhibit 

 the highest condition of health and thrift. For milch cows, to which 

 I have mainl}' fed it, it surpasses any other food I have ever tried. 

 It increases the quanthty of milk much beyond dried food, and the 

 quality is better than that produced from the same fodder when fed 

 fresh and green from the field. 



As you will see by my report, I cure all my corn, clover, green 

 iye, green oats, by this process. I always cut m} r clover twice, and 

 sometimes three times, in a season. I put down last year- the past 

 summer four acres green rye, two acres green oats, about twenty 

 acres clover, and five to six acres of corn. 



