ENSILAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 16 September 1884, Page 3

ENSILAGE.

Under the heading "Sweet Ensilage " is described in the " Mark Lance Express," a visit to the silos of Mr Fry at Chobham, Surrey. The special interest oE Mr Fry's silos is demed fiom the peculiar system which he pursues. Other cnsilos make sweet ensilage by accident ; he makes it by design, and to him, it is said, will belong the credit of inventing the system of sweet ensilage, which will undoubtedly be the system of the future, so ob\ious is its superiority to the sour ensilage system. A full explanation of the system is promised in a future issue. Meanwhile we are told by the essential feature of his system in the pioducti< n of " haying feuuentation " — that is, fermentation at a trmperatuie exceeding 122 deg. F. — without the fodder in the silo. The fodder is not to be put in wet, because sour silage would then be produced, and the same result would follow were too much put in at one time, because the weight of tie stuff would present the attainment of a high temperature in the lowest layers. As compression is to be avoided, no chaffing, ramming, or stamping is required The fodder is put in a few tons at a time according to the surface of silo available, and when one layer is hot enough another may be put on. It is said that the difference between the sweet and sour ensilage is very much like the difference between pickles and jam. Mr Fry's silo«, three in number, are each 12ft square and loft deep ; they ate built in sloping ground for convenience in filling and emptying, only 4ft of their depth being below the ground and lift above. The ill effect of acid silage on milk and its products, cheese and butter, and also on the health of infants consuming such milk, were disclosed in an extract from the " Prairie Farmer " published in the "Australasian" on July sth. One of the chief advantages attributed to the silo system was that the fanners could preserve fodder by this means in seasons too wet for haymaking. It would now appear that the nearer the contents of the silo approach to the condition of hay the better. Is not this equivalent to admitting that in reverting to silos agriculture is taking a long step backwards. I

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