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mingling of straw with the fodder, and contend it improve 

 the keeping qualities of the fodder, while the latter imparts 

 a freshness to the straw, making it more palatable. 



The following is an analysis of the maize before and after 

 eusilage : 



In this case the maize had undergone a good deal of dry- 

 ing in the sun and winds before it had been put in the pit. 

 Therefore there was less difference, or rather no difference, 

 in the moisture. The advantage this form of hay has over the 

 dried hay is the facility of digestion, and its peculiar pow- 

 er in promoting a flow of milk, in fact just the same differ- 

 ence there is between the dry food of winter, and the juicy 

 succulent grasses of summer. It has never to our know- 

 ledge been tested in Tennessee, but that it would succeed 

 here as well as* in Europe seems probable. It certainly 

 would be an easy way to provide a large supply of green 

 forage. The pits will contain about ten tons each. 



I am indebted to Dr. Edward Young, of the Bureau of 

 statistics, for the necessary data to exhibit the exports of 



