Ensilage.
■ o Agricultural science has it seems taken anolner step forward, a new system of preserving green fodder for cattle having been discovered, and for some time practised with great success in the United S! ales. It is also exciting much interest amonc the agriculturists at Home at lhe present lime. The system is called ensilage, and consists of a process by which gt'een forage is stored in air-tight and waier-t-ffht 'pits, and pressed down by weights laid on the surface of the mass. By this process it is claimed that caille can be kept in the same condiiion in winter as in summer. It has been affirmed that in cases where uader the old system 2? acres were required to support one bead of cattle, those who baa used ensilage could maintain two cows on each acre. A great saving is also said to be effected in every way by what is called "ensilaging" grass and other green crops compared with the old method of curing them into hay, while animals of all kinds on the farm do much better upon it than in its dry State, as fodder can be served to them in a uniform state the whole year through.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 99, 3 May 1883, Page 3
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203Ensilage. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 99, 3 May 1883, Page 3
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