Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1879 — Hour to Keep Fodder Green. [ARTICLE]

Hour to Keep Fodder Green.

Mr. Clark W. Mills, of Pompton, N. J., is trying on quite an extensive scale, the new French plan of the ensilage of green fodder, which has of late come into general notice. He has built three large silos, or air tight concrete vaults, each about f>o feet long, 15 feet wide, and 15 feet deep, which are filled with green fodder corn, chopped up and poured into the silos before the corn has had time to ferment; it is then subjected to great pressure, the silos are closed up and the fodder is cut out onlv when needed. The theory is that by this process the fodder is kept green and succulent all through the winter, to the great delight and;benefit, of the cattle, whose yield of milk will be as large as in the summer, when actually pasturing on green fodder. The experiment is being watched with t deep interest by the farmers of Passaic and Morris counties in the vicinity..— It is said to have succeeded admirably in France, tmd a few who have tried in this country have met with encouraging res ,fits, bqt it is quite a novel idea in Northern New Jersey. The corn has to be packed away with the utmost rapidity as soon as it is cut, or it will ferment and become cured like hay, which is precisely what is not wanted.