ENSILAGE AND TEMPORARY SILOS. 81 
When the silo is being filled, the mowers or machine 
should be started earlier than the carters, in order that what. 
ever is cut may be packed away without any undue delay. 
In summer weather we advocate the cutters should com- 
mence at 4 a.m., and the carters should follow two hours later. 
The produce should be carted to the silo at once. 
In the autumn, when the atmosphere is moister, such 
precipitation is not necessary. Ensilage is simply, if we may 
so express it, “ canned grass,” and, in making, the whole secret 
is to pack it in such a manner that all air is excluded, and 
generated heat kept down to a minimum. It is an elementary 
fact that grass, as soon as it is cut, begins to change its nature 
by reason of the action of the air, and the drier the air the 
more rapid is this change effected. Therefore it is best to 
select foggy, or still damp weather, for the time to fill one’s 
silo, as then it is not necessary to exercise undue haste. 
It is immaterial how wet the herbage may be when used for 
packing in the silo. If dry, it is liable to generate stronger 
heat, and is not so easily compressed. 
We would say a word regarding the quality of the material 
used for ensilage. We have said that almost anything is 
suitable for this purpose. So far as that remark goes it is 
true; but it must be remembered that ¢he better the article 
used, the better the ensilage produced ; this, we believe we are 
right in stating, has now become an admitted fact by all who 
have experimented in silos. 
As to the use to which ensilage may be put, remembering 
the many opposite and varying views which are almost always 
expressed on this subject whenever it comes up for discussion, 
we shall confine ourselves to our own experience, leaving the 
reader to draw conclusions. 
We like ensilage less for horses than any other kind of 
stock. We find store cattle immensely fond—in fact, they are 
too fond of it; and like “Oliver Twist,” however much you 
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