Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-17

cross each other, with thick paper between.
Ensilaged coyn-fodder and grass cut green, in
the same clio and at the same time, the corn
fodder on the bottom and grass on-top. Game
out in good order and was eaten greedily by
his cows. Had been feeding his cows two
fod1erings of dry hay, one of green grass or
rowen, and one Of dry corn-fodder, with one
quart of cornmeal and three quarts shorts per
day to the COW. On opening his silo, December
Ash he omitted the dry hay fodderihgs and the
dry cornstalks, and fed two fodderings OF the
rowen or green grass ensilage, continuing the
cornmeal and shorts as before. In three
days his cows increased one-eighth IN mix;
One cows milk was weighed separately, and
for the week before opening the $40 leo as
above. She gave an average OF I94 POUNDS
of milk per day, and for the week after open
ing and feeding from the rowen ensllage, as
above. she gave an average of 2la pounds
day. When he fed the same corn ensllage
| and the same cornmesl ard shorts as before,
she gave % pounds of milk per day, showing
| a gain of 81 pounds day from Dry hay and
| cornstalks TO corn-fodder ensilage. The milk
| looks and tastes like milk made in sum-
mer. The butter is higher colored and has an
excellent flavor. A COW will eat about seven
tons Of ensilage aud 400 pounds of shorts in
six months. It would be better to give them
some dry hay for change, say 5000 pounds
ensilage, l, 400 pounds hay and 800 pounds
cornmeal His cattle fed on ensilage lock
better, have brighter hair and appear more
contented than when fed on hay. Ensilage
can be fed from the silo with the same labor
as hay from the nov. The silo will enable
us lin Massachusetts, TO make milk and but
| ter in winter as we'll as in summer; will en-
able us to winter stock at half the expense
| that it costs on dry hay, and a much larger
| IF ctoclrt no kcnt m the same
amount of land His experience the first
season with eDsilsge has been satisfactory
that he will build and fill three more silos,
filling two with corn-fodder and one with
clover the second season.
EXPERIENCE OF B. AUSTIN AVERY, SYRACUSE,
NEW YORK.
He uses the mammoth sweet corn and
plants with drill three feet apart His yield
was twenty-five tons per acre. Cost of plant
ing and cultivation. 81 per acre. Cut the
corn with reaping machine. Cut one-hali
inch loug-the finer the better. Used two
Daniels cutting machines, SO placed that the
fodder as cut fell into the silo. Machines run
by small stationary engine. Sllo seventy feet
long, twelve feet wide and twelve feet deep
contains 10, $50 cubic feet and holds 240 tons
ensiage. Fed one hundred cattle on ensilage
Commenced feeding forty pounds day and
increased to sixty pounds day, all OF then
eating it up clean. Had taken the ensilage
out aud let it stand ten hours before feeding,
and had fed as taken out. Cattle eat equally
well and did equally well. Has fed in the
morning with cornstalks cut and steamed,
after having dried in the ordinary
way, in the morning; sixty pounds OF
ensilage at noon, and in evening small
quantity of hay. In three days his cows in
creased in milk quart each an average
half laSS tO Feed thap than
when fed on hay or dry cornstalks. Turkey:
and chickens eat corn ensilage greedily, and
do better on it than on any other food given
them. He had never sold any hay before
this year from his piece, but had fed all to
his stock This year he has sold 100 tons oil
hay at SIS per ton, and it had formerly cost
him Sl25 month for meal and shorts for SIX
months every year. Since feeding ensilage
he had fed neither. and his cows had done
better, besides saving to him 81 $50 in feed.
ing his 100 head of stock six months. and hall
of the labor in feeding. Instead of this one
silo in the county, as now. there will be fifty
the next year. and within five years more
than thousand.
EXPERIENCE OF CLARK W. MILLS, PoMPToN,
NEW JERSEY.
In the winter of 1880 wintered 100 head of
cattle and II head of horses on the product of
Ii acres of land, planted in corn and ensi-
LACED. The amount in ensilage was about
600 tons, and cost, including seed, tillage,
gathering, cutting and packing, ready for
feeding less than $500 An amount of hay
necessary TO winter the same number of stock
in the same condition. would have cost
$500. Mr.. Mills uses large variety of
Southern corn, planted in drills and cut after
the tsssel appears and the ears begin to set.
The COWS give larger quantity of milk, of
the best quality We would here state that.
in addition TO the above, Mr.. Stevens gives
the statements OF a large number of other
farmers, all of whom are equally favorable
to the new mode OF feeding stock.
Even in the cold climate of Massachusetts
ths new system renders it practicable to OBJ
tain two crops from the same land in the
same season. They sow winter rye in the
fall, and harvest it in June for the silo. and
then plant the same land to corn to be har-
vested in August. Thus man on the same
farm can keep double the amount of stocl;
and with less cost. thus making double
profit Clover can be ensilaeed as perfectly
and easily as corn, and four crops of alfalfa
put into the silo at half the expense Of max
ing and storing hay would make quite an
additional profit on feeding this kind of forage.