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The Winter of 1885-86. 
1885. 
1886. 
Description of Food. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Star. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
Hay Chaff 
6 
8 
9 
9 
3 
Oat Straw Chaff 
G 
8 
"ih 
9 
9 
9 
1 
1 
H 
Oi 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
IJ 
1 
1 
H 
1 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
Oi 
Oi 
1 
1 
Of 
1 
7 
/ 
in 
0 
tj 
14 
14 
20 
14 
Malt Dubt 
•• 
Oi 
'oi 
'oi 
Oh 
OJ 
Oi 
OJ 
Oi 
OJ 
10 
* • 
14 
38 
42 
51 
47J 
39J 
37i 
171 
2U 
22J 
23f 
24J 
u 
8. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
8. d. 
Value of Food per Week 
5 10 
6 8 
7 0 
7 0 
7 1 
6 9 
* The Cabbage was given at 3 p.m. by itself. 
Average amount of food, exclusive of boiling water— lbs. 
Estimated averap;e of dry matter- — 21 lbs. 12 ozs. 
Average weekly cost of food per cow — 6s. 8id. 
Besides these, both brewers' grains and silage were given 
largely in mixtures, and in every case with economy. I saw a 
good example of this in the feeding of a very large head of dairy- 
stock by Mr. G. M. AUender, at his seven dairy and mixed 
farms near Horsham, Sussex. Both these foods are here largely 
used, the silage being made on the stack system, and from the 
headland and hedgerow cuttings, mixed with lucerne, vetches, 
and clovers. 
Silayc. — The reader of the various replies on the question 
of Silage will be struck with one fact, which is most curious. 
There are many who have had no experience of this new food ; 
but no single one of those who have kindly replied to my 
queries, and who have tried the system, are found to condemn 
it. Mr. de Laune, who has had a large experience with the silo, 
sums up the whole lesson of the winter by saying that it teaches 
us to " make more silage, and feed it with chaffed straw." I 
cannot say more on the question than this — all who have used 
it declare that without it they could not have gone through 
last winter as they did. Mr. Scarth's experience of sweet silage, 
made with the Johnson's patent stack system, may also be referred 
