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and seemed to suffer no injury thereby. With regard to ensilage, he preferred! 
the stack to the silo. Professor Shelton had made an ensilage stack in the — 
middle of his farm; and corn, lucerne, and setaria were used init. A few 
slabs were laid on the top of the stack, and earth was put on the slabs. The 
stack was a great success, and the ensilage was relished by his cows. The 
maize made the best ensilage, although the lucerne was also good. From — 
what he had seen, he did not think it necessary to put earth on the top of the 
slabs. One of thé advantages of the stack silo was, that there was no cartnge, 
as it could be made wherever the green fodder was growing, and he did not see 
why a farmer should not have four or five such stacks. 
_” Mr. Tuynne mentioned that he believed, in the Rockhampton district, the 
Messrs. Archer had been making about between 400 and 600 tons of 
ensilage annually for some time past, and the average cost of it was, taking 
everything into consideration, including the cultivation of the maize, from 4s. 
to 4s. 8d. per ton. This ensilage enabled them to keep their stud and dairy 
herds going in such a way as no other establishment in Queensland was kept up. 
’ This showed there was nothing risky about ensilage, and that it could be 
gone in for with safety. They should not, however, be led away by disputes 
between stack and pit ensilage. Stack ensilage was very useful when it 
was desired to feed stock in the field. When a dairy was kept, it was best to 
hhave a pit, and chaff the fodder. In the stack a certain amount of the outer 
stuff must always decay and become mouldy, and this was to be expected. In 
the pit or silo there was very little of this. The silo at Gracemere was rather 
peculiarly situated, being on the side of a hill. On one occasion a large quantity 
of the ensilage was apparently ruined by some rain which got into it. ‘Lo show 
the fondness of stock for ensilage, it might be mentioned that every bit of this 
seemingly rotten fodder was eagerly eaten by cattle. The round silo was 
_ used in some parts of the world. They were simply huge casks or tubs, with- 
out any studding, made out of 6 x 2 wood, which were fixed in position by means 
_ of iron rods. He intended to try and have sucha silo made in Queensland at 
some future date, if possible. . 
Professor SuEnToN stated, with regard to Mr. Deacon’s ensilage stack, that, 
considering all the circumstances in connection with it, it had been a success. 
The interior had been free from mould, and had given an excelient quantity ot 
good fodder. Still, there had been considerable rot on the outside, and, with 
regard to the weighting, there had been about 3 feet of earth on the top. 
Without this earth, he was afraid the stack would have been a failure. Stacks 
could be wired, but it was then necessary to keep continually wiring, twisting, 
and otherwise following them up, and even then there was always a considerable 
waste. A few weeks ago, he had inspected a stack silo, which had been put up 
on a platform, and an elaborate system of winches had been devised so that a 
great pressure could be put upon the whole mass. But, as a matter of fact, the 
‘resultant ensilage was nothing but a stack of worthlessrubbish. It wasa mass 
of woody fibre with all its juice squeezed out. Doubtless cattle would eat it, 
because there was no other grassto eat. However, ensilage, if made at all, was best 
‘made well, and half measures were of little use. It was best to chaff the fodder, 
and put it into a good air-tight silo. In material, his own silo had cost £23, 
but now it was up it would last for several years, and when not used as a silo 
it could be employed for a granary or for any other purpose. The best thing; 
of course, was always to keep it full of ensilage. Hnsilage-makers in the States 
now fill a silo, and begin to feed out of it at once. Needless to say the ensilage 
would keep for years, if necessary. It was always sate in the silo. Weights 
were not now used in the silo, it being found cheaper to lose a layer 0 
ensilage rather than go to the trouble of putting on the weights. ‘The 
floor of the College silo was simply ant-bed. This silo contained about 
sixty tons of ensilage, which he considered would carry over twenty cows for _ 
about four months. In making similar calculations, they could reckon on ® 
cow consuming about a cubic foot of silage per day. The College dairy stock, 
however, at that moment, was being kept upon what was generally looked 
