what dry, and there is a risk that this 
result may happen in case the harvesting 
should be delayed through press of other 
farm work or by bad weather 
With this we conclude our quotations 
from Storer’s valuable chapter on silos 
and ensilages, 
Depts or Siuace Imporrant In Repvucine 
Necessary Loss. 
The depth of silage in the silo is the 
chief factor which determines the closeness 
with which it is packed, and, consequently 
the completeness with which entangled 
air is expelled and outside air prevented 
from working downwards from the top or 
towards the centre from tha walls in case 
there should be any leak there 
To ensure the best silage, says Mr F. 
H. King, of the Agricultural Experimental 
Station of the Wisconsin University, and 
the least loss of dry matter, it is impor- 
tant that the silage should have a depth 
at the close of filling of not less than 24 
feet, and 30 feet is better than 24 feet, 
Under these conditions, the silage is so 
compact in its lower two-thirds that even 
if the walls are a little open the silage is 
so close and is presscd so hard against the 
walls that air would enter it much slower 
than if the pressure weaze less. When 
the silo stands until spring beforo it is 
opened, the necessary losses in tne upper 
4 to 6 feet of silage may reach 20 to v5 
per cent. of the dry matter put in, and 
this may be true also even when only the 
upper twelve inches appear decayed or 
mouldy 
Tue WeicHT or Sinaae per Cusic Foor, 
The weight of corn silage increases 
with the depth below the surface, with 
the amount of water in the diameter of 
the silo. One cubic foot of silage will 
weigh, on an average, about 45 lbs., and 
every 50 cubic feet of the volume of the 
silo will hold 1 ton. 
Tue Cavaciry or Srzos. 
The capacities of silos increase more 
rapidly than do their depths, so much so, 
that a silo 36 feet deep will contain nearly 
five times as much silage as only one-third 
of that depth ; and when it isremembered 
that there is less necessary loss with deep 
silage, the importance of depth will be 
appreciated, 
Doubling the diameter of the silo in- 
ereases its capacity a little more than four 
times, while trebling its capacity nine- 
fold. Itis evident, therefore, that the 
cost of storage decreases rapidly with in- 
crease in the size of the silo. 
neers 
Grape vines do not suffer from drought 
as quickly as most fruits. In fact grapes 
are, asa rule, of much better quality in a 
dry season than a wet one They are 
looking splendid now, and the berries are 
filling out rapidly and should be thinned 
48 Soon as possible. Caterpillars have not 
been quite so troublesome this year ag 
~ they were last year, owing perhaps to the 
- early broods being destroyed. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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Bone Dust 
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. 
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PLAINS. 
Kitchen Garden—Sow a few Radishes,. 
Mustard and Cress, and Celery, in damp: 
sheltered positions, Supply water and 
liquid manure to growing crops of Cab 
bages and Celery, and earth them up. Dig 
up Potatoes and Onions as they ripen. 
Stop Beans, Cucumbers, Melons, Marrows 
etc., and give them a liberal supply of 
liquid manure and water, also to Yang 
and sweet Potatoes. The former nupt 
now be staked, } 
Flower Garden—Sow Portulaca Tpcmaas 
and other plants suitable for the season 
Take up flowering bulbs ag they ripen. 
Train and tie up climbing and other 
climbing plants. Water plants bedded 
out, and trees and shrubs planted last 
season, sheltering and mulching the 
latter. Cut back Verbenas and other 
bedding plants. Attend to pot-grown 
plants, shading, syringing, and watering 
them, and supplying liquid manure to all 
rapidly-growing ones, Pinch back Fuch- 
slas. All pot plants kept in the open air 
must be plunged at once, should this have 
been neglected before. 
Fruit Garden—Attend to watering and 
_ mulching of young trees, and to summer 
pruning of all. Loosen the ties of grafted 
and budded trees, which also require ox- 
amination to remove shoots springing: 
from the stocks or roots. Gather early 
fruits as they ripen. Tie u Vines. 
Graft or bud Oranges, Zi 
HILLS, 
Kitchen Garden—Continue 
recommended for last month, the great. 
moisture of the swamps enabling the 
gardeners to sow and plant anything 
adapted to our climate during the whole 
of the summer, 
operations. 
Flower Garden—The directions given 
apply also to hill gardens, in which, how- 
ever, a far greater variety annuals may 
still be sown, many bedding plants trans- 
ferred to the open ground. Layer Car- 
nations and Picotees, Look tu Roses to 
destroy blight. j 
Fruit Garden—Same as on plains. 
