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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 29 
A Verdict for the Silo. 
John Gould, Ohio. —The “ confession’’ 
of C E. Chapman, that all roads for the 
•economical feeding of cattle, especially 
cows, end at the silo, is valuable read¬ 
ing for those who have been waiting for 
eight years to see the outcome of the 
silo fad, and have tried everything they 
could hear of as a substitute for ensi¬ 
lage, to abandon each in turn, and in 
the doing, put tar more labor into the 
venture, than to have built and filled a 
silo. The fact is that the most damag¬ 
ing evidence against the silo is from 
those who never have fed ensilage to 
their stock, and believe that roots are 
cheaper and better than “ sour corn fod¬ 
der.” As compared with roots, the Ohio 
Station found that 100 pounds of good 
ensilage were worth something more 
than twice its weight in beets or roots, 
and that while ensilage was a sustaining 
food, roots were little better than an 
appetizer, and really did not economize 
the other food by the feeding. 
When it comes to the number of tons 
weight from an acre, it can be figured 
out that 35 tons of ensilage to the acre 
mean 1,000 bushels, 30 pounds to the 
bushel; and one must hustle around to 
get 30,000 pounds of roots from an acre. 
Where men have silos, I find that 
meadow hay is not held in very high 
esteem, as a reliance, and is sold and 
the cows fed on a cheaper and, prac¬ 
tically, better food. Hay is fed to stock 
for its starch content—for the fuel it 
contains to burn to keep up bodily 
warmth—and it, as meadows go, is a 
good acre of hay that supplies much, if 
any, over 1,200 pounds of actual starch, 
while an acre of ensilage with some 
ears, will supply from 5,000 to 6,000 
pounds of actual fuel. At the New Jer¬ 
sey Station a field of ensilage corn last 
year, closely approached 8,000 pounds of 
starch, and one can see readily that this 
acre was worth more than five times 
that of the acre of hay, and is quite as 
digestible, and if fed in its succulent 
state, and conceding 10 per cent loss in 
heating in the pit, it still is ahead by 
several thousand pounds. 
That ensilage of good quality is a fair 
ration without other feed, for cows not 
in milk, we put to the test a year ago. 
Two dry cows were fed from December 
1 till spring on ensilage alone and three 
or four pounds of oat straw each at 
noon, with the result that they came 
out in form for butchers’ stock, and 
were sold as such in late April, clearing 
over $20 per head over fall prices for the 
350 bushels each of ensilage that they 
consumed. From our standpoint, the 
greatest value of the silo is that, with a 
warm, comfortable stable and the Sep¬ 
tember-fresh cows in it, with the stores 
of succulent food, there is a chance for 
the farmer to have a special dairy sea¬ 
son, and at a time when the income from 
the farm is, as a rule, small. This 
dairy, giving summer messes of milk, 
gives employment to the farmer, and an 
income, and besides the good feeding, 
makes good fertility, which, if drawn to 
the fields and spread where wanted 
every day, will insure twice the manur- 
ial value of the older hay fed methods. 
Nine winters’ use of the silo has con¬ 
firmed, and more, all that Mr. Chapman 
has said. When I go from one State to 
unother and find that this ensilage-made 
milk is used at sanitariums, asylums, 
and for “certified milk,” and that two- 
thirds of the premium butter at the 
winter fairs is also made from ensilage 
milk, it is a matter of wonder that one 
still hears so much about the unhealth- 
ful effect of ensilage upon the cows. 
When I see hundreds of cows so fed, and 
find them “Gaining in flesh, shedding 
their coats early, and in hair as smooth 
as a race horse in March,” can it be that 
such cattle are unhealthy ? To my mind, 
the coming summer soiling crop will be 
a pit of ensilage put up the fall before, 
and we shall dispense with all this pot¬ 
tering and fuss with a succession of soil¬ 
ing crops that fail half of the time, and 
their loss is made good with added 
grain. Nothing will be discovered that 
will improve upon the silo as a cheap, 
effective, economical and in every way 
satisfactory method of securing for the 
farm 365 days of summer and summer 
income. 
“ Sterilized Air” and Georgia Peaches. 
J. H. Hai,e, Connecticut. —I see that 
The It. N.-Y. comments on the experi¬ 
ment of shipping peaches from Georgia 
to New York in cars treated with steril¬ 
ized air. The system is all right in 
every way. I believe that the trouble 
is with the fellow who handled it; he 
made no plans ahead with the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad, hence the car came from 
Alexandria to New York without air 
pumps working. Had he planned prop¬ 
erly, they would have been kept work¬ 
ing as long as the trains were moving ; 
then by hiring an engine at the Jersey 
City yards, we could have held the car 
indefinitely. Of course, if a line of 
these cars were established, there would 
be regular pumping stations, so as to 
hold the cars at the end of the route. 
The Georgia peach harvest was not so 
large as last year; curculio, early drought 
and later rains reduced the crop ma¬ 
terially ; still we shipped 54 cars, and 
sold at satisfactory prices all through, 
so the percentage of profit was a very 
liberal one. We have a spur track right 
into the orchard, right up to the pack¬ 
ing shed ; a new and larger packing 
shed, a hotel that will accommodate 
over 150 people, and a good water sup¬ 
ply, furnished by a steam pump. 
R. N.-Y.—As The R. N.-Y.’s report of 
this shipment indicated, the details 
were obtained under difficulties, the 
man in charge seeming much disinclined 
to explain fully and clearly. The above 
from Mr. Hale may explain the reason 
for this. 
Down with Dendrolene. 
E. L. B., Lowell, Mich. —On page 516, 
you say that reports have reached you 
that Dendrolene has hurt peach trees, 
and ask for other reports. I sent for a 
10-pound can, and put it on according to 
directions, on 35 plum, 200 peach, and a 
few apple trees. The result is that 1 
will have to reset the peach and apple 
trees, and am very much afraid that I 
will have to do the same by the plum. 
Salt on Asparagus. 
Prof. W. F. Massey. —In regard to 
the question of salt on asparagus, of 
which I recently wrote in The R. N.-Y., I 
would say we are now making exhaustive 
experiments with various fertilizers on 
this crop. I have an acre of asparagus 
in twentieth-acre plots, and on one of 
the check plots I purpose to try the 
effect of salt alone, the other plots hav¬ 
ing various combinations, but no salt 
except that, in some of them, kainit is 
used. These plots, which you probably 
saw at our Southern Pines experiment 
grounds, are on land that has never 
been altered by cultivation, and which 
is, naturally, quite poor and sandy. We 
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