112 H. E. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



grains, etc. Have you ever tried the cutting of the dry fodder by 

 running through a fodder- cutter, cutting it into short pieces ? Wet 

 the dry fodder enough to moisten, take enough for one day's feed, 

 mix this evenly with the kind and quantity of grain you use, and 

 feed ; if it stands several hours before feeding, your cattle will like 

 it all the better. By this way of feeding you will save fifteen per 

 cent of dry fodder, and those who have tried it say a larger per cent. 

 If you are feeding on ensilage in part, and wish part dry fodder, cut 

 in short pieces, mix ensilage, cut fodder, and required quantity of 

 grain ; this makes a good feed. Sixty pounds ensilage from corn- 

 fodder, or forty-five pounds of clover ensilaged, is good feed for one 

 cow per day. This quantity is a fair average. These quantities will 

 keep a cow in good condition, with an increased flow of milk, with 

 better health than when fed on hay. With six quarts shorts and 

 sixty pounds of ensilage per day, your cows will gain flesh, and do 

 better than when fed on ensilage alone ; add to this feed one quart 

 of corn-meal, you get a good feed ; and I think this quantity of 

 grain with ensilage is not only the most economical, but is better for 

 cows than to feed a larger quantity. To fatten cattle, sixty pounds 

 ensilage (more or less as they eat up clean) , with four pounds corn- 

 meal per day, will rapidly fatten them. I believe corn-fodder ensi- 

 lage fed with clover, rowen, or any of our grasses ensilaged, is a 

 better and more natural food for our stock than the corn ensilage 

 alone. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



r 



ENSILAGE FOR POULTRY. 



THE feeding of ensilage to poultry is eaten and relished as well as 

 when fed to horses, cows, and pigs, and, by various experiments, has 

 proved to be as nutritious for poultry as for cows. When ensilage is 

 fed to poultry they not only eat it greedily, but it makes them smart 

 and active : have a healthy look and a fine bright plumage, which is a 

 sure indication of good health. During the winter season ensilage, 

 when fed to poultry, mixing with it a proportional part of shorts or 

 corn-meal, will increase the laying of eggs, and fatten them very 



