13 SILOS AKD ENSIL-AGE. 



CHAPTEE I, 

 THE LITERATUEE OF ENSILAGE. 



The Literature of Ensilage in this country is comprised 

 in the following works in the order of publication : 



1st. Mr. J. B. Brown, of New York, translated and 

 published, in 1879, the original work of M. Augnste 

 GofiEart, which gave his experiments, on an extended 

 scale, at his farm at Burtin, France, and for which M. 

 GofEart received the decoration of the Legion of Honor. 

 Besides giving a translation of M. GofEart's writings, the 

 translator adds other interesting matter. 



2d. In 1880 there appeared "The Book of Ensilage; 

 or. The New Dispensation for Farmers, etc.," by John 

 M. Bailey, Billerica, Mass. This work, of over two 

 hundred and twenty pages, gives the author's experiments 

 at his place, "Winning Farm," and contains much 

 matter not at all related to ensilage. In 1881, Mr. Bailey 

 published a " Farmer's Edition " of the same work, in 

 which a large share of the irrelevant matter is omitted. 



3d. " On Ensilage of Green Forage Crops in Silos," 

 by H. E. Stevens, proprietor of Echo-Dale Farm, Dover, 

 Mass., Boston, published by the author. 



As intermediate between, special treatises on ensilage, 

 and the many articles that have appeared in the agricul- 

 tural and other journals, may be mentioned a paper in 

 "The Journal of the American Agricultural Associa- 

 tion," New York, 1881, entitled " Mill's System of En- 

 silage," by Francis D. Moulton. This is an interesting 

 account of Mr. 0. "W". Mills' experiments with ensilage at 

 "Arrareek Farm," Pompton, N. J. But there is nothing 

 in the article that shows Mr. Mills' "system " to be dif- 

 ferent from the ordinary methods. 



