Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-08-13
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FARM AND FIREsIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
| ENs1LAGE OF GREEN FODDER.-Mr.
| Francis Morris, of Maryland, writes as
follows on the subject of ensilage of green
| fodder to the s'Maryland Farmer II
made use of Indian corn as winter food
for stock as long ago as the winter of 1876,
and have used it in each succeeding win
ter with great success. The earlier it is
sown the better; its growth is more rapid
and luxuriant in May and June than in
July and Augusta bushel of corn to the
acre. in drills II to Is inches apart. The
crop should be worked twice. and when
in tassel should be cut by mowing-ma-
chine and carried from the field in wagons
to the feed-cutter. Cut it up in pieces OF
about three-quarters Of an inch, and put
it in the silo prepared for it. The build
ing of the silos is thoroughly explained in
T. b. Browns work on "Ensilage," but
any one who will make a trench 10 feet
wide and 6 feet deep, and cover it with
earth IS inches deep, after the cut-up
maize is put into the trench, and then
keep the earth carefully pressed upon the
maize so as to exclude the air, will accom-
plish what is required. The trench should
have shed over it, or shed matched
with straw. Water should be kept from
the cut-up maize, as it would doubtless in
jure its quality, if not destroy 1t.
"Maize, or Indian corn, requires from
As to go days to ripen it into tassel, and
therefore, it can be safely sown up to the
18th of July. If the land is in good con-
dition it will yield twenty tons to the acre;
it requires a ton a month for each cow,
and all animals will improve and do well
upon it. By the use Of superphosphates
the crop can be doubled, but this is mat
ter subject to the will of the farmer. Ten
acres of maize will feed 80 COWS during
the season that they cannot feed out of
doors, and will furnish quantity of ma
nure to give wheat or corn crop. The
advantage Of this crop is SO great that it
must change the agriculture Of every corn
growing country. Cattle and sheep will
be raised on every farm to an extent here
tofore not thought Of. Wheat to day by
all our best farmers is followed by clover,
the clover is cut and made into hay, and
this is fed to the stock. Maize will take
the place of clover hay. and the clover
will be grazed off the land and the ami
mails will return it to the land better pre-
pared to act as manure than If the clo-
yer was cut. made into hay, carried to the
barn, and then fed to the stock. The adj
vantage of grazing clover off the land is
very great, as it at once returns to it all
that the clover takes from the sod.
81 recommend to every farmer who
reads these suggestions to sow an acre Of
land with corn or maize; if you have no
drill, SOW it broadcast, and when in tassel
use any old moving machine you may have
to cut it down, and then if you have no
feed cutter, buy or borrow one and cut up
the fodder as ordered, put it in the ground
and when winter comes feed your stock
upon it, and when you try it one you will
never be without it again. have used it
for four seasons, every time with complete
success, and know that it multiplied the
value Of our land three or four times over.
It will prove the richest gift that God has
given to men in corn-growing countries,
and he who does not use it is not in the
van Of the farmers of the day."
In the report Of Cornell IN. W Univer-
sity experiment station for last year we
find the following additional information
on this subject: "Having large amount
of refuse cabbage-leaves, turnip-tops, &c.,
when we harvested these crops last fall, we
tried the experiment Of manufacturing
some 'ensilage, adopting the process used
in the manufacture of sour hay. It con-
sisted simply of closely packing this succu-
lent refuse matter into pit dug into the
ground, and covering it with a layer of
earth about two feet in thickness. This
pit was opened last April. and the product
was found to be in excellent condition,
and was readily, even greedily, eaten by
cattle. 1t had not nodded in the least,
but was changed into dark-brown pro
duct with strong, sour odor. We were
gratifed by the success of the experiment,
for it showed that by this simple process
we could save and turn to good account
what would otherwise have been lost.''
TIE american Cultivator" says that
it may be comparatively slow operation
to milk a cow in five minutes, while on the
other hand ten minutes might be called a
quick operation in milking another. Any
person whose hand is at all sensitive to the
touch will. if he forces the milk down to
the end Of the teat faster than it can es-
cape, find the milk rushing back, mean
time the COW showing the movement to be
one Of pain. Always milk SO that the op-
GRAFTON will be pleasant one to the docile
animal. affording her relief in the careful
emptying of full bag of it's contents
where care and gentleness are the rule in
this particular, the cow will welcome the
coming Of the mixer as the approach of "a
friend.
A BEEFsTEAK chopped up fine and
baked with -four and yeast in the form of a
''meatbread" loaf is the latest dietetic SEN
sation. It is asserted that meat thus
treated entirely disappears during the pro-
cess of publication. the nutritive princi-
pies becoming incorporated with the bread.
M. Scheurer Kestner has just been explain