Ensilage.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 8 October 1891, Page 3

Ensilage.

» A Queensland paper quotes the following letter on the practice of ensiling, from the colums of ''an Irish agricultural journal" • — " Instead of buildiug silos, or piling up stacksand putting onheavy weights, which have to be removed several tinips, simply make your silo as you would a dughill, about 15ft. or lGft* wide, and length according to quau tity. Draw your cart up one end and down the other, keeping the wheels as near to the outer edge as possible, coming back through the middle with the empty cart. When done cut off the two ends, and put thorn on top, covering all over with a foot of clay taken from the sides. ' You can build a small rick of hay to keep the rain off. Seven or eight acres ot very heavy grass can easily be put into one of these heaps, and not very long or more than six feet high. I tried it last year, and would not think ot making silage o\\ any other plan on any account, having had experience of others as well. There is little or no trouble, no risk, and the silage is just between sweet and sour, jtk^^ about 60 tons of it my stall-jIHBjS^ dairy cows, and was only sorrj' that I had not made more. The hay 1 put over the silo w«s irtther improved than otherwise by the admixture.