Excerpt from Silos for Preserving British Fodder Crops Stored in a Green State: Notes on the Ensilage of Grasses, Clovers, Vetches, Etc The storage of green fodder in pits is a subject to which the attention of the agricultural world has been directed, from time to time, for many years past. The German practice was described in the "Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society" fully forty years ago; but it is not surprising that this fact should be almost unknown to people of the present generation, although the article was copied into Stephens's "Book of the Farm," printed in 1844. It is more remarkable, however, that so little should be known of what has been said and done within the last few years, and that ensilage should now be generally looked upon as a new invention. In the Farmer, in 1870, Mr. T. Schwann wrote on the "sour-fodder" process as carried out in Hungary; and he alluded to it again in the Field in 1876, when writing about M. Goffart's doings in France. Professor Wrightson, when reporting on the agriculture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England," ian 1874, said that this "sour hay" was well worth the attention of our agriculturists; and he returned to the subject in the Times in 1875. The Agricultural Gazette published an illustrated description of the process about the same period, besides many more recent contributions; and numerous articles have since appeared in the various agricultural journals of the three divisions of the United Kingdom. A few, but very few, silos have been constructed in this country, as will be seen by the following pages; and these have mostly been built within the last year or two, and are small in dimensions. The experiments of one English gentleman (Mr. A. J. Scott), whose letter is printed on page 179, commenced seven years since - which is as far back as the earliest silos made in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.