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8. Lord Londesborough {per Mr. Thomas Toimg, Agent), Londesborough 
Park Farm. — At Lord Londesbovough's suggestion a silo was made in July 
last in the end of the bam ; its dimensions are 13 feet long by 8 wide, and 
10 feet 6 inches deep, calculated, when full, to hold about 15 tons of fodder. 
The cost of brickwork and cement was 12?. Arrangements were made to 
drain ofl' any liquid from the silo, and a tap was carried through the wall to 
the outside of the barn ; but this has in this instance proved unnecessary, as 
nothing has drained from the fodder since it was put in. 
The silo was filled with grass from the 20th to the 30th of August, care 
being taken to have it stored dry, and well trodden down as it was put in ; 
and the weights, consisting of pig-iron blocks (1 cwt. each), and boards (I5 in.) 
halved at the joints, carefully put on, and removed when next filled, and then 
replaced as before. The weight used on this silo was 8 tons, averaging about 
Ik cwt. per square foot. 
As each layer of grass was put into the silo, about 3 stone of salt was 
sprinkled over 1 ton of grass. 
On the 17th of November last the silo was opened by Lord Londesborough, 
in the presence of a number of his tenantry from the Londesborough and Selby 
estates: the contents were found to be in a very satisfactory condition, 
with but little waste on tlie top. The cattle, pigs, and horses that had the 
silage given to them ate it readily. 
Arrangements were made for an experiment to test the value of silage as a 
food for dairy-cows as compared with other food, and four cows were selected 
and tied up in the same house : and from the 1st to the 10th of January had — 
18 lbs. Hay. 
3 „ Chopped Straw. 
10 „ Ground oats. 
14 „ Roots (Mangolds). 
3 „ Cotton-cake. 
48 lbs. for each cow per day. 
The milk being weighed after every meal, morning and evening, with a total 
result from the four cows of 1095 lbs. of milk for the ten days. 
From the 11th of January to the 20th of January, the same cows had — 
28 lbs. Silage. 
10 „ Ground oats. 
14 „ Roots (Mangolds). 
3 ,, Cotton-cake. 
55 lbs. for each cow per day. 
And a total weight of milk given \>j the four cows, at the end of the ten days, 
was 1116 lbs., showing an increase of 21 lbs. in favour of the silage. It 
was then thought better to do away with the roots altogether, as one of the 
cows was slightly purged, consequently, from the 21st to the 30th, the 
following food was given : — 
10 lbs. Ground oats. 
3 ,, Cotton-cake. 
5 „ Maize-meal. 
38 „ Silage. 
56 lbs. for each cow per day, 
with very satisfactory results ; in ten days 1133 lb.s. milk was produced, 
38 lbs. over the first ten days. One square foot of silage has been weighed, 
and found to average 31 lbs. — January 25th, 1884. 
