CALIFORNIAN THISTLE.
A farmer who has tried making Californian thistle into stack ensilage for the first time speaks most enthusiastically of the good results obtained. He found ensilage a good food all the year round for stock, especially dairy cows; and, furtlher, though grass was in abundance, the stock preferred the ensilage. He gives it as his opinion that through feeding his cows on ensilage their milk yield was increased considerably. Some farmers are n! the opinion that the cost of making ensilage from Californian thistle i« heavy. In a sense this is correct, but where the thistle is growing in profusion it is necessary to cut it, an,; the careful fanner has it carried away and burned. Half the expense of making ensilage lies in the cutting and carting, an operation that has to be performed in any case. It lias been found that a square stack is the most economical, as there is not so much waste on the outside as in other shapes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 February 1913, Page 4
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166CALIFORNIAN THISTLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 February 1913, Page 4
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