248 SOILING CROPS AND THE SILO. 



There is no silage of which it may be said that it is 

 entirely free from acidity. 



Formerly the term ensilage was frequently used 

 to indicate the process of storing food green and 

 succulent in the silo. As distinguished from silage 

 the latter was the food and the former the process 

 of making it, but the use of the term ensilage is 

 becoming obsolete. Ensilage and silage are now 

 regarded as synonymons. 



Siloing or Ensiling food is the process of mak- 

 ing it into silage, that is to say, it is the process of 

 putting it into the silo and of curing it in the same. 

 While it cannot be said that these terms have been 

 extensively used by speakers and writers they would 

 seem to express very concisely the idea involved. 

 Why then should any objection be made to using 

 them? 



A Siloist is a person who makes and feeds sil- 

 age. The term has not been used heretofore to any 

 considerable extent. Possibly it may never become 

 popular since the making and feeding of silage is 

 more commonly an adjunct of farming, rather than 

 the principal work of the farmer, and those who 

 make silage are also usually farmers. The term 

 is certainly wanted however or some equivalent to it 

 for conciseness of statement when designating the 

 relation of those engaged in making silage to the 

 work in hand, why then should it not be adopted? 



Antiquity of Siloing, — It is not known when 

 the method of preserving green food by puttiqg it in 

 the silo originated. It cannot therefore be known 

 who was its originator. History is likely to be for- 

 ever silent on this point. Ancient writers speak of 



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