SILOS AND ENSILAGE.

[The following is the report on Silos and 8 c silage, by Mr. J. L. Thompson, managet of the Dookie Experimental Farm] The Silo system cannot be said to ba of recent origin, for we read of the ancient Romans preservingl fruits, grain, and forage in a green state in subterranean faults. The Mexicans also hare prac tised the same process for centuries, and still preserve a large balk of their fodder in this way. The attention of the English speaking world was first drawn to this subject by the translation (by a Mr. Brown, an American), of a work j written by a Mr, Augustio Goffart, a distinguished member of the Cental Agricultural Society of France. This work was published at New York In ! 1879, when the subject was qmckly taken I up by the American people who have lince done much to popularise the sys tem, and there are now in that country thousands of silos. In 1882 a confer ence was held in New York of several hundred farmers, who met to compare j their various experiences, and the answers i to tome of the questions considered are very remarkable. Regarding the pro- i fitableness of ensilage, Ho. 6 says : It will double the stock-carrying capacity of our farms ; its advantages to dairymen are incalculable. No, 7. It gives a vigor and healthy appearance not seen in hay-fed cattle. We can double the stock and thus increase the fertility and value of our farms. No. 8. It enables one with a little land to keep a large amount of stock. * No. 9. We believe stock can ' be kept for one half the cost of other food, and will fatten as much as during the best grass season. No. 10. Anything of a vegetable nature that animals will eat will make useful ensilage. No. 11. Forty or fifty tons of fodder can be en silaged off one acre, which is worth more than twenty tons of hay. No. 19. The cost of feeding on ensilage, as against hay and roots, is one to three. No. 20. I think cattle can be kept for one-fourth the expense of any other method. No. 28. One acre of ensilage will keep eight head of cattle 100 days. No. 30. lam keeping four times the number of stock with my silos than I have been able to do. hitherto. A silo filled with green fodder in time of protracted drought is invalu able. No. 37. The profits are very large. I consider my two silos worth £2,000, and would rather pay interest j on that amount than give them up. No; j 88. Ensilage I believe to bo the dairy- > 'man's anchor on the expensive lands of | the East. I would as 'soon think of do- ; ing without a house as without a silo. I j farm for profits, not for pleasure, and have found the silo the best investment I ever made. It is needless to multiply these ex tracts. • They are from practical men whose opinions can bo relied upon, and if ensilage is so valuable in America it must be doubly so in these colonies, sub jected us they are to long periods of droughts. It is really astounding that so little has been done to popularise the •ilos in Victoria, and I am strongly of opinion that the subject might be taken up by the Royal Commission on Vege table products with much profit. Before giving some details concerning the intro duction of the silo into these colonies, I may mention that there are now a very great many in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and hundreds of new ones are being built every year. The Messrs Trepplin, near Kenilworth,Warwickshire, preserve over 5,000 tons a year. And, At the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, Islington, 1884, there were 254 exhibits entered for competition, comprising al most every description of plant that could be placed in a silo.

AUSTRALIAN SILOS.

To Mr. Charles Rake, of Olive Farm, Enfield, South Australia, is the credit of introducing the silo into these colonies. Mr. Rake has for a long time been in the habit of taking in all the best agri cultural papers in the world, and observ ing the apparent success of the silo in America, was not slow to imitate the example, * As early as 1880 Mr. Rake built his first silo, and the whole neigh bourhood thought he was doomed to dis appointment when they saw him putting in tons of succulent green fodder into a deep pit. Mr. Rake invited his neigh bours to come and see the opening of the •ilo six months afterwards, and, to the surprise of all, found the fodder coming oat in excellent condition. Mr. Rake has increased his silo capacity every year ■inee, and has now six silos. • By this means he is able to produce first-class cream and butter all the year round, which he disposes of readily, at high prices to the citizens of Adelaide. Beef acres, the estate I was managing during the last five years in South Australia, adjoins Mr. Rake's farm, and, seeing the success of his silos, I was induced to imitate his example, and in 1884 built a eilo of concrete, which for strength, dur ability, and convenience, will compare favorably, with any silo in the world. The silo consists of four compartments, each 20 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 15 feet deep, having a total capacity of 14*000 cubic feet, and capable of holding 800 tons of green fodder. The cost was about £300, and the structure will last 60 years, bar accident. A sample oi ensilage from the first fillling of this silo obtained a prize of ,£lO 10s., presented by the proprietors of the Australasian tt the National Show. Melbourne, 1885.

jfheso wore unpacked without a single breakage. They can be fixed at trifling ejst, and are very effective. As you will gee by the model and drawings, a chain is attached to the lower part of the wall of the*silo in a suitable manner, either by taking it through the wall with a plate and bolt on the outside, or attaching it to a beam or sleeper sunk in the floor. On the opposite side of the silo another chain is attached in the same manner. While the silo is being filled, the ends of these chains are thrown over the wall, or hung on spikes on the sides. After the fodder is put in the pit, covering boards are placed over it as before described, «nd a stout traverse beam is laid on the top, stretching from end to end of the, silo. In the ends of this beam brackets ore iixed to carry raoveable rollers, over which the ends of the chains from either ■ides are laid. The chain-tightener or double screw is now hooked into the links, and on turning the handle the ends of the chain are drawn closer together, causing the beam and covering of the silo to sink, and so to press the material. Pins are then inserted in a link of each chain to hold the beam down, when the Bcrew-tightener can be made to take a fresh hold on the chain for further pres sure, or be removed to another silo. Any number of beams may be used, according to the size of the silo and the pressure required. The screw is used by one man only, the total leverage of the appliance being as 450 to 1, due allowance being made for friction. I found these appli ances a very great saving, especially when the silos were filled a second time. The whole covering could be removed in fifteen minutes. In the absence of me chanical pressure, the weighting must be accomplished by materials best procur able, viz., stones, concrete blocks, posts. | earth put in old bags, or anything that i will give sufficient weight, namely 2001b to the superficial foot. Some authorities Advocate a lesser weight than above mentioned, but those who have been most successful with ensilage are decid edly of opinion that this should be the minimum. For a silo 60 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 15 feet deep, eight beams would be required, «nd can be procured f.o.b. in London for £29. Of course freight, duty, &c, would be considerable; but I am of opinion that the success of ensilage will induce our colonial manu facturers to produce something of the kind within the means of every farmer in the colony. There are now a great many appliances of different kinds for pressing j ensilage in England, but none are so ; simple and effective as those just de scribed, manufactured by Messrs Rey nolds and Co., at a comparatively low | In working these appliances, one operation of the screw is required daily for the first four days after filling, then once every second day for a week, when little more attention will be required. With dead weights, when once applied, no further attention is required until the

OPENING OF THE SILO.

Onlj a sufficient number of planks should be removed as to giro sufficient room for the operation of cutting to be performed. It is best to cut it in rerti cal sections as is done in a haystack, as much being taken out each day as ia required for the day's consumption, »1« though it will keep fairly well for a week or so after being removed from the silo* The wcightß should not be removed from the uncut portions until absolutely re quired, as it is necessary to continue the pressure as long as possible. When the first cut gets below the surface, I use a large coal basket capable of holding 100 pounds. This is raised by means of a block and tackle sufficiently high for the man in the dray to catch and empty it. When the silo is small and deep, and the consumption rapid, the whole of the weights and covering may be removed at once, and the ensilage removed from the entire surface as required. In a broad shallow silo, however, it would be unwise to attempt this method. I have taken ensilage from a silo every day except Sunday for three months, and the last was quite as good as the first.

CROPS FOR A SILO.

Any vegetation that stock will eat in its natural state will make good ensilage, and it will be much improved by the operation, especially if fed to cattle. It is said that cattle assimilate ensilage better than they do any other food, and the reason for that is the change effected in the silo is nearly or quite that which is brought about in the first stomach of the ruminant animal. I have found barley and tares sown immediately after the first rains very suitable and profitable for a first filling. These will be ready to put away in the silo, say about the Ist of October, and the land can be at once ploughed and sown with maize, which will be fit for pitting about the end of February. I have obtained 50 tons of fodder in this way without irrigation, i.e., from the two crops. This is suflfi cient to keep a milch cow for twelve months. Indeed it has often been proved that by thoroughly cultivating and manuring the land, ample food can thrown on an acre for a cow by adopting, the silo system. Cockspurs varigated, and Scotch thistles, if put away in a suc culent condition, can be taken out in a prime condition six months afterwards, and stock will devour them ravenously* In short the silo has been styled " the farmer's save all;" nothing can come Amiss to it. Mangold or turnip topSi cabbage leaves, surplus fodder of any kind can be siloed and kept until periods of want. We hare heard of stockholder in the interior losing in times of drought all their valuable stud bulls, rams, &c, for want of food. There is reaiij no excuse for this state or affairs. Every few years we have seasons of plenty, when thousands of acres of the natural grasses can be be^mown and siloed for use in the years of famiao. Mr. Walter Lamb, of Rooty Hill ami Merilong, Liverpool Plains, New South flTales, has proved to his fellow pustoral ists what can be done by means of the silo in storing up fodder in good season*

Measles have broken cub on board the warship Orlando, at present in Auckland harbor, and one of the men have been removed to the hospital.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1893.

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I would highly I Brookside, December 12, 1892. recommend farmers to use the same in I Mr Walker,—Sir, —1 wish to add my time, %s I am satisfied thafc.they will save I tesfcimony to the wonderful effects of your and greatly improve the condition «f the I Bot-fly Remedies. 1 had a valuable horee. Send m« some of your Eot Fly horse which got very bad and gradually Preventive for the summer, and oblige, got worse, I quite believt-d he wjuld —lours ve*y respectfully, : have died. He kept losing flesh, got a Edward dry coat, tight skin, careworn expression — — ' of the eye, a cough, running at the nos- Killinchy, September^ 14, 1892. trite, and could ncarce walk I got your Mr Robert Walker, Christ church, remedies and gave, them as directed, with Dear Sir—Your Bot Fly Remedies have the most beneficial results. The second proved a complete success with my horse, day after getting the last drench he began Be had been very bad for some rimd ; the to pass bots in handfuls, some of which coat dry, a tight skin, got very low in I herewith hand you. Immediately after condition, and got scarce able to walk. I passing the bots he began to mend, and quite expected he would die, as he had all is now as fat as butter, hearty and well, the symptoms of one that my neighbour thanks to Walker's Bot-fly Remedies, lost with the bate, I gave your remedies Any who doubt them send them to me, as you directed, •with the following re- au«* I will convince (hem that your reme salts :—The horse, after gettilng the late dies are a boon to the community and the bottle, became very pained, lying down suffering horse. Every horse should rolling and groaning with pain, in the have them in the season, as lam conn paddock. He began to cough very hard, dent if usedthere will be no more deaths each cough bringing away a thick humor- from the bot-fly. Una this as you please ous matter from the nostrils, the like of H. Lovkll which I never saw before coming from a . ~—• horse. This continued all next day, Greenwood Farm, which 1 am cerain were the bots burst- Southbridge., August 2, 1892. ing from the fleets of the Remedy, and Mr Walker, Sir,—l am glad to bear coming up through the nostrils by the testimony to the wonderful effects of your effects, of the cough. After this ceased, Bot Fly Remedies. < >ne of my best thejhorse began to mend, and in six days horses became very bad ; the skin tight, I had him at work again, heartland well, the eye lifeless and a bad colour, and got You should make these Remedies public, low in condition. Anxious to finish so that farmers might knew there is a ploughing a paddock I did not want to remedy for this destructive pest. 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