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in length of time at least. A change of food does not so 

 suddenly affect the yield. Then it is an error to say that 

 green rye in proper condition of maturity is inferior to 

 green corn. It is true that cows prefer the taste of green 

 corn they even prefer it to green clover, but who supposes 

 it to be superior to green clover ! 



A TRIAL OF CORN ENSILAGE WITH DRY FOOD. 



Mr. Henry E. Alvord, the very intelligent director of 

 Houghton Farm, gives, in a paper read before the New 

 York Agricultural Society, and published in the last Re- 

 port, an interesting trial of the effect of corn ensilage with 

 grain compared with dry food and grain, in feeding two lots 

 of six Jersey cows each, for twelve weeks. The following 

 is a statement of the experiment : 



These twelve cows were fed and treated alike for a fort- 

 night prior to beginning the record, and then for twelve 

 weeks their treatment was exactly the same, except that 

 one set of six (lot A) received only corn ensilage, besides 

 grain, while the other set (lot B) had dry forage only. The 

 uniform grain ration was a mixture of four pounds of corn- 

 meal, four pounds wheat bran and one and one-half pounds 

 cotton-seed meal, fed in two portions. Lot A received 

 sixty pounds ensilage per day, it being of average quality, 

 as per analysis given hereafter, and lot B received twelve 

 pounds of cut stover and five pounds cut meadow-hay daily. 

 The coarse forage in both cases was fed in two portions, 

 one separate from the grain, while at the other time these 

 were mixed. The following is the milk record of the two 

 lots for the twelve weeks' trial : 



