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CHAPTER XXIX. 



REPORT FROM 



HOIST. J\ IB. 



PINE GKOVE FARM, HALLOWELL, ME. 



WE visited Pine Grove Farm, Hallowell, to examine the ensilage 

 now being taken from Mr. Boclwell's silo. About sixty-five tons of 

 corn-fodder were put into this silo last summer, and all the rules laid 

 down by those who had experimented with it carefully observed. 

 Nearly half of this amount has already been fed out, and a daily feed 

 is now given to each of the cattle and sheep. They eat it well, and 

 thrive upon it. When this food was first given, the daily feed of 

 corn-meal was reduced one quart, and this has been followed since ; 

 and the cattle thrive better than with the full feed of corn-meal. Mr. 

 Bodwell, by his experiment, has settled three points in his own mind 

 with regard to the ensilage of green fodder: viz., that the fodder cap 

 be preserved in the silo, that cattle and other animals eat it with ap- 

 parent relish, and that they thrive upon it. He noticed in the milch 

 cows a marked increase in the flow of milk soon after the feeding of 

 ensilage was commenced. Mr. Bodwell has preferred to build a silo 

 that will last for all time. A temporary silo, one that will answer for 

 a season or two, can be very cheaply built. 



