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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 3

IfcESF.RVJfNa OREEN FoDDßlt.**— • An authority says :-—A method of preserving gree fodder, such as turnip tops, or otner succulent yegetables, valuable to dairy; farmers, has been in use for haany years ;in. Europe, by -which this green fodder is kept in good condition fpr six or 'twelve jponths. A trench, two . or four feet deep is ,d.ug in a. dry spot -in the field, and thetopsofthe.roots, carefulty gathered when free from ,rain or dew, are thfrown into it. They are very compactly pressed down, and when the pit is filled some straw;, is laid, upon^ tlie fodder and the earth is heaped over tjie whole. ■Jn this ;manner this product, which is generally wasted in a great measure, is . uti.iz#l. Oa one /occasion the writer saw o-^eof these pits opened ,in the spring which had: been; filled and covered up the fall previous. The, fodder,, which. Was .leaves jof sug&N-beets-was as fresh; to ull appearance as when gathered, and the cows to which; it was fejcl ate it ; with javidity. . §al t is. geperalij:sprinkled- upon the -fodder, 'jand aids in' its preservation. It would be. worth wjiiie iwheji root crops are being gathered to preserve the tops in this. way as "an , ifrxperipient. , The' principal -re- . quisites are Vto pack away the leaves when" di*y, to /compress them jso cpm^. pletely with earth that all access of air is prevented. It is by the , exclusion, of a|r..|hat they ; are, kept from (Jecay.