The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-03

doubling Thcmases and theorists OF
neither OF these do l make any COM
plant. Both are essentials to the
smooth running of the great train OF
progress that i5 now making forward
with such speed in cur land. The
theor!st and the scientist are the
great head lights that throw out @
strong light far ahead cf us aud en-
able us TO search and see things in
the dark future. while the doubling
Thomases are the air brakes that do
great service on the train OF progress
by keeping us from going too fast
| and running of the track. The chem
list has been and is yet a great help
to the farmer; but when he tells us
that sun dried and weather. beaten
hay or forage contains the same con-
stituents excepting the water that the
green plants do. and that he bases
his arguments against ensilage upon
this knowledge. the farmer can read
lily see that he too needs practice,
as all know that stock do better on
green grass than they do on dried
hay, TO say nothing of spoiled hay
Another case of error in the chemist
is that mineral water from the ma
tural springs have a different effect
upon the human than that made by
the chemist OF precisely the same
composition.
Our experience with ensilage SC
far has been very satisfactory. One
can calculate on sasing all the for
age he grows absolutely without risk
of the weather. In feeding ensilagc
all the forage is eaten up clean with
little or no waste, while IL cured in
| the ordinary way (and it the farmer
gets his crop without losing one-thirG
of II by bad weather he thinks he is
iucky) fully one-half of 4 is trampled
under foot and wasted when fed
| whole.
Another great advantage in feed
ing ensilage is that K is In very
being moist, dry meal or bran can be
stirred in and mixed with the moist
forage and all. meal and forage, Is
| eaten together in just the desired pro-
! portions. The meal is raised and re-
masticated with the forage. which en-
| suI,as good digestion of the meal. n
the dry meal, or meal in slop3. Is
fed with dry long forage CT any kind.
IL will be observed that the meal or
slop is devoured first, and, not being
| mixed with the forage, (Which holds
! IL in the first stomach,) the meal or
s1op passes through the first stom-
| ach, and consequently not half as
simulated. The close observer will
| find the meal fed to the COW in the
| lung apparently not half digested. :.
| This makes 1t plain that fully one
half the meal and 5lops fed cows in
| the ordinary way is a total loss, while
IL mixed with moist short cut forage
| 1t enables the COW to ruminate the
Meal or grain along with the forage
and derive it's full benefit i find
| the method Of ensilaging forage 1.
properly conducted. to be an abso-
lutely sure plan Of saving all kinds
OF forage; it ia also very much cheap
er and is upon the whole very pleas,
ant work to all hands. have this
| fall put down some pea vines whole
without cutting. and have cut and
mixed pea Hlnes and corn fodder to-
gether; so put some corn fodder
cut fine to ITSELF and some pea vines
cut fine and put in the pit separately.
| When all this is fed out we will be
| able to decide upon the best mode OF
| mixing, etc. AT present 1t appears
that the pea vine Is the most desirable
plant to ensilage on account o. it's
being the first place more nutritious
| feed; secondly. the pea enriches the
land instead OF impoyerishing II as
corn fodder. We are to have a sample
of each. pea vine and corn fodder. on
exhibition at our State fair, s'..iirh
will give the public the benefit of our
experiment sfor ensilages for this
year crop was grown on thin up
land, every alternate row in peas,
and rows two feet wide on q flye-acre
lot; and was ploughed on 3rd of July,
and harvested on 18th and 18th of