Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30
More About the System Of Ensilage.

A visit to Winning farm, found DR..
Bailey and Manager Southwick in good
cheer, and two right good fellows to direct
a knowledge seeker in any of the branches
of practical farming, particularly in live
stock and the only perfect system of soil
ing. viz, ensilage.
After severe siege of listening to DR..
Bailev's proclaiming the advantage of en-
silage, viz, that he had produced during
the past winter, milk at one cent quart.
butter at ten cents per pound, beef at four
cents per pound, and pork at three cents
per pound, all of which sounded big to
your correspondent. was then shown
the silos, two forty feet long, sixteen feet
deep and twelve feet wide; each has q
capacity of one hundred and seventy.two
tons which will feed thirty-two cows six
months, and DR.. Bailey believes ensilage
to he n richer and more productive food
than stock get in a good pasture in June;
then came the test, viii stock eat it
willingly and freelyPn Eat it," says
doctor, " why, they will eat it until they
are blind" and sure enough, your cores
pondent saw cows and sheep leave good
wheat bran and cats mixed, run and
crowd, and push to get a bite of ensilage,
and when it was devoured they would stare
their feeder in the face for more instead of
accepting of the grain offered them,
The same was proved with horses which
have II small allowance two or three times
each week. Now for u view of the stock
" There is my stock; feel of them"
"Whcre did you get this stock, doctor; ship
them from your Virginia stock farm? ;
Oh, no, those cows, heifers and colts
have been kept on this farm all winter"
D." Why, this stock has been out to grass a
full month at least; their hair is off, and
hides loose and they look and feel rs if
they had been on grass several weeks.
" Yes, know all of that, those COWS have
yielded an immense flow of milk, and that
young stock has made the most rapid
progress that ever knew Of" But they
have had green corn fodder?" Enslage
from my silos." " Well it is better when
properly fed after ensilage' than it Is
when fed from the field, the alcoholic
fermentation which takes place by allow
ing the ensilago to lay twentyfour hours
on the barn floor before feeding, improves
it, from the fact that the sugar is reduced
to stage that will admit of the animal,
assimilating every particle, which is i'm
Poss'p'o wien o si VS. i1" =
Ohe sIlo was iiiieu on'J u '"o,t"',us U,
rs capacity! irolh li's one l'u.lureu ne"u
OF sheen' nlleen menu vi ca'tloc ~'!n
niue 10 tae I'VE 'iofses' h'Ee "ccn ic'' S'il'e
Dec D. 1917 ana ABOUT hiteen tons YET
remain 1, 'e uocVor states ''i'l lo cAPectS
10 grow at least seVenty-h'e IONS Oh maze
TO inc acre INC coIiiuS season I'VE ana
one, nan acres Will M .lie TWO si'os anu
lec ,c, slH'y-lonr cows ior SIX monlhs,
Inc uoclor oases us ca'ou'a''onS upon
iacis demonstrated ny experiments MAGE
by llmsell curing Tue past year, anu iSu'
here l wish 10 say 10 lhe readers OF the
f40"g"ma" tl!at consluer .ne mosC Valu'
able point Salneu ny my WISH 10 " Winning
farm was thtV " Daiiey prove" u me d.
mat was c'aimeu, anu III 50 conlprehehsl'
Die manner 'llaC IL man wiz! nan E an eye
could not iail 10 see pr"Gl'c"!''y III lhe
adoption OF tllls SYSTEM IN view OF the
enormous results inc slmpIlcl'y ana
cheapness OF preserving an forage crops
IN their green STATE IL really ooeS seem as
II the harblnger OF petter times had arrlV'
ed. Dr. BAILEY WIN cnsilaSe e'Ght acres
OF rye about the hrst oil June WnIcn Will
feed large stock until the middle OF