The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-14
OUR FARMERS BUDGET.
Some Sayings About Ensilage-Silver,
Silver Men and Farmers.
Pruning for June-What FencI
Farmers Have Done-Heaves
in Horses.
What the Breed Does-Cabbages Tor Stock
Pasture foe Hsgs-Farm aud
Workshop Notes
Some Sayings About Ensilage.
New York Tribunal


A misinformed person might easily tEnag-
inc that the champions of the silo were all
interested in the sale of sn ensilags cutter
or other patent in some way connected with
the new system of storiag fodder. One inn
pulsive critic has dared 60 maintsfT that the
enthusiasts of the pioS5ing process couldn't
see anything against their hobby If it were
writer in letters as lrge as the froadside of
the biggest barn in View England Is the eff
fusiReness thus paro6ied the effect of the
alcoholic fumes of the 'cow h-Out" on the
human victim? If so, it suggests an added
leeor for the temperance advocates. The
Farm Journal hasEhis captisl to an incisIve
article against ersilage ~ Bald Humbug
Knocked on the Head" Secretary Russell,
of the Massachusetts, Boasd of Agriculture,
says the use of scnsilage Lessons the amount
= of cream, AID batter from it shows its farer.
Messrs. EPs3raira Chamberlain and Joseph
H. Walker, Worcester, Mass, investigating
and thinkiDgnen," are,quoted as opposed
to ensilage. Che RuIal'New Yorker iRsinu-
ates that there are "crazy-heads" connected
with the abating ensilage excitement A
Pompton Silos a yea. ago and was not
greatly impressed with the system as seen,
there and with the proprietors method of
presenting,the SUBJECT. Secretary Russell Is
quoted IN the New England Farmer as
having seid in recent public address that
he and otherf opposed the professions of
ensil0ee supporters at the outset because
they began by claiming what Was impossi-
pie, and because there was an evident pur-
,,o,a Of or-oor1l tim IN the DarfDf same of
some OF its advocates" Meanwhile the
search for truth at the bottom of the .silo
goes en-. and there is labor still for theGrad-
grinds linen of facts and calculations, men
with measuring sticks and multiplication
tables always in their pockets"
In speaking of his experience in feeding
ensilage to dairy stock, J. w. Walcott, of
Readville, Mass, states: LAS 10 the quality
o. the cream, l can ,ay that by feeding fifty
DC IpGs of ensilaged maize and one quart of
cotton-seed meal, the increase over the
amount when feeding English hay and six
quarts of corn meal averaged % per cent. in
milk and 70 per cent. in outer from the
milk which is total gain in butter of 3715
percent The butter. brings the highest
market price in Boston,"
learned and scientific member of the
Massachusetts, State Board of Agriculture,
who claims to have solved the mystery con-
nected with the difference in the nutrious
hElQG CT green anu IOOul doScIIo III SuD-
stance that any food for mar and beast may
be dried and nothing lost but pure water.
Would this member of. the State Board
select for his breakfast dried beef and water
instead of the Juicy beefsteak? Would he
prefer. his salld composed of dried lobster
with. dried lettuce or celery? Such none
sense finds no favor with dumb brutes,
whose natural appetites prefer succulent
food to dry forage, whose instlncs lead them
to -selet well-preserved ensilage In prefer
enee TO dried grass or straw.
Those eminently conservative individuals
who condemn ensilage because they have
never tested It's merits themselves are quite
certain that the milk product OF cows fed
under this new system must be inferior in
quality. We can dispel all such illusions 0y
awell authenticated case in point. George
V.Fletcher of Belmont, Mass, who has had
practical experience with ensilage and feeds
it to his cows, states that one of his neigh
bOrS who was unable to find such cows milk
as would nourish his six-nonths-oldi infant,
prevailed upon him to supply given guam
tity from one of his cows. Mr.. Fletcher hes
itated but finally, afterinforming the neigh
Dor that his COW was fed no hay, her daily
ration being ensilage with one pint of corn
neal and two quarts of shorts, consented to
furnish the quantity desired. Upon this
,eusilage milk the child is now thriving won
deTfuliy, gaining strength and flesh. We
feelsafe in recommending e similar supply
of milk TO some of the doubling professors,
with the assurance that such dietarywould
,stiffeES'2p their backbones.