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It is claimed by many who have tried this method of preserving 

 fodder that it is cheaper in the long run than the old metliod of drying 

 or making into hay, that the nutritious qualities are better preserved, 

 and tliat consequently cattle thrive better when fed upon it, and that 

 it more nearly resembles green fodder, so that cattle eat it more easily 

 than they do the dry. Mr. Henry R Stevens, of Dover, Mass., has 

 been testing this method, and so well satisfied is he of its great superi- 

 ority, that he has given his experience in the form of a little treatise 

 on the subject, in which he gives not only his own experience, but 

 also that of some twenty others, with ample directions based upon his 

 experience. At page 49 he gives Professor McBride's opinion of the 

 advantages of feeding ensilage over the same fodder in a natural or 

 green state, who had experimented at the University Farm in Tennesee 

 with about seventy tons, who reports that it was eaten greedily by all 

 kinds of stock, and he concludes that it is fifty per cent, cheaper than 

 hay. This little treatise costs only fifty cents, and to it we refer our 

 readers for full details, believing that the subject is worthy of attention 

 especially by those farmers who are raising stock or engaged in dairying. 



TEEE PLANTING AND PUBLIC MORALS. 



The real text of my subject is a little different from my caption, and 

 reads " our growing horticulture and its effects upon public morals." 

 Perhaps, at first sight you and many of your numerous readers may be 

 considerably puzzled to see the connection, and ask, Where is the relation^ 

 ship between tree planting and public morals ? But upon a closer inspec- 

 tion, and a more intimate acquaintance we think that an obvious relation- 

 ship does exist between the two seemingly incoherences. It is sometimes 

 so as you know, in other matters of great importance to the genei-al weal ; 

 the relationship between sobriety and success in life, for instance, is not 

 very clearly descernible by some of our fast young men, W' ho are breaking 

 through all friendly restraints and living questionable and fast lives, 

 thinking readily to attain ultimate success and outstrip their sober, but 

 slower companion, who will most certainly come off victorious in the end. 

 " Our gi'owing horticulture" is a. text of importance to the best interests 

 of the country. I see among the items of your Forest cotem. that the 

 delivery of fruit and ornamental trees at this stiition, this season, has been 

 enormous, and he estimates the trade in his vicinity alone at $2,000 an- 

 nually. This, for such a locality, is a vast sum to contribute to the planting 

 every yeai', and it may be taken as an idea of our growing horticulture 

 generally. This growing condition of our horticidture, is not alone indicated 

 by the amount of trees bought and planted by our jieople, but also by the 



