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nitrogenous food, as oat-meal, barley-meal, or mill feed. At 

 noon I feed hay, oats in straw chaffed, or barley straw chaffed 

 and stock always gaining in condition, coming out in spring. in 

 high flesh, and healthy. Since feeding ensilage I have had no 

 trouble with garget or other unhealthy condition of udder. In 

 my experience ensilage has proved a gain in profit of certainly 

 40 per cent, over any method of dry feeding that I know, besides 

 enabling one to carry three times the amount of stock possible 

 on the same amount of land with dry feeding. 



Mr. John D. Whitman, of Iowa, testifies that ensilage is fully 

 equal to half its weight in hay; the effects very similar to that 

 of green grass, and extra good for calves. 



If on full feed, seventy pounds per day is fed; a less amount 

 with some grain and hay is better. 



Mr. George A. Pierce, of Canada, says that ensilage is very 

 valuable for dairy stock, entirely taking the place of roots and 

 largely that of hay. 



Immediately on feeding the ensilage the butter gained in 

 quality and quantity. No fault was found by the purchaser. 



Fed a few steers on ensilage and they did well; calves and 

 young stock did remarkably well. He fed sixty to seventy 

 pounds per day, mixed with meal. The stock began to gain as 

 soon as they were fed ensilage; formerly had hay, roots and 

 some grain. He found ensilage a great advantage over the 

 system of feeding hay and roots in winter. 



Dr. John G. Sutherland, of St. Louis county, Mo., was one 

 of the first practical farmers in the west to adopt the ensilage 

 system, after Mr. Morris' experiments had demonstrated its 

 value. He kept thirty-two head of milch cows, which he fed on 

 ensilage, both in the winter and in the season of scant pasturage 

 at midsummer, making the ration fifty-five pounds per day of 

 corn ensilage to each cow. This he supplemented with a suffi- 

 cient quatity of dry food — chopped hay and bran — in winter, to 

 keep the animals in good condition, but in midsummer little 

 besides the ensilage was needed. His cows were always up to 

 a full flow of milk ? and the butter excellently flavored. 



