Ensilage For Market

A domand for ensilare would give our farmors anothor product for the market. Immense numbers of cows are kept in all of our cities and large towns, and if their owners could procuro ensilage in a convenient form for use at as oheap a rate as they can hay, thoy would prefer to have the food best adapted to promote the flow of milk and at the same time tocater to the appetite and health of the cows. Again, when a great saving in expense of feeding is made, then there is every lnducement for our city dairymcn to buy ensilage. A neighboring farmer flrst packed ensilage in barrels, and thcro it kopt perfectly safe for two years. But the expense of barrels was found to be too great, and that plan was abandoned. liow the Lnexpensive plan is adopted of putting it up in crates, holding from 300 to 400 pounds cach. These crates are made by using two hoads 20 inches in diameter, with t-ommon laths nailed to the heads about threo feet long, held in position by three wires encireling the crato. This is pressed full. In this wav ensilare will koop, if needed, six raonths. Tho crato is fillod from the silo, and this can bc filled at the pleasureof the sellcr or buyer. In this form it can be handled as readily as baled hay, and tlius stored in the limits of city or villag-e barns. AVhen we consider that nineoutof evory ton cows prefor ensilago to dry feed, and also that thoro are vory many horses that suffer from hard breathing', or what we cali heaves, which if fod on ensilago very soon forg-et to wheezc when driven about their work, the importance of this innovation becomes apparent. The labor of packing could bo performed by farmers at a time in the season when other farm work doesn't drive them. Ensilage at its best should not be cut and placed in the silo before the corn is glazed. Oftentimes green, immature corn is ensüaged, and is little, if any, better than "organizcd water," and when put in the silo makes a "sauer kraut," good for nothing but to fill the stomach of a cow, yet producing but little good milk.- American Cultivator.