Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Ensilage and Silos: Containing Many Valuable Letters From Prominent Stock-Raisers and Farmers, Giving Their Actual Experience With Ensilage, a Book That Should Be Read by Every Farmer in the Land
IT is not an uncommon occurrence for us to receive letters ask ing about ensilage, manner of building, cost of silo, putting in, etc. Although we have given the subject a great deal of careful study and attention, we are not sufficiently informed to always give the information desired. There has been a great number of books published on this subject, but most of them are from theory only, and do not furnish the hard facts that most farmers need. Believing that many farmers Would adopt this valuable system of supplying green fodder for their stock in winter if they were informed on the merits and expense of it, we decided to gather all the valuable and practical information possible from our customers, whom we know that have given this system a thorough-and careful trial, and to publish it in book form for free distribution. With this end in miew, we wrote to our ensilage friends giving in full detail our object, and requesting them to give us what information they could regarding the subject, what it cost per ton to raise it, get it in, store it, manner of building silo, whether above or below ground, cost of construction, and general ideas regarding it. They have responded to eur call very liberally, and we are thus enabled to give our friends who are interested in this subject some very important and valuable details on this great question. To our friends who have so kindly helped us in this work, we extend our heartiest thanks, and can assure them that they have thus extended a helping hand to their brother farmers, and we believe their kindness will be greatly appreciated. Without their kind aid we could not have obtained this valuable information, and to them we respectfully dedicate this book.
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