232 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



danger of gathering stone, sticks, etc., and these crops can 

 be handled very rapidly each team should bring to the 

 silo 20 tons per day with sufficient help in loading. 



It will often be advisable, when a large crop of rye is 

 cut in June and no clover to cut with it, that early miscel- 

 laneous meadow grasses should be cut so as to mix 25 per 

 cent, of these with the rye in the silo to improve the 

 ensilage. 



It is much the cheapest and best to mix the different 

 qualities in the same silo than to mix the ensilage from 

 different silos. 



Great care should be taken to spread the ensilage in the 

 silo even and tread as even as may be whilst filling, and the 

 filling should go on continuously every day till finished, 

 and the weighted cover should be put on at once. A foot 

 of clean straw put over the top of the ensilage will assist 

 in preserving it. The straw will spoil and leave the ensi- 

 lage under it sweet. 



