• Green rye and oats, gi'een corn, grass, clover, saintfoin trifolium, cow peas, vetches, rye-grass, and even apples have been put into silos. Grass, which, owing to the pre sence of weeds, would be unsaleable if made into hay, is said to be sweetened and rendered palatable by this process. Wet in hay time is a matter of indiffer ence to the farmer, as wet does no harm in silos, though it would be better not to pit, as some have, when a violent storm is about. The farmer, too, can leave his forage standing till the time that frost sets in before he stores it, can keep his cattle, under cover, in winter, and feed them uninterruptedly on the same- kind of food, or on differ ent kinds of food prepared in the same manner. Many of the cows which the writer saw,' chiefly Jerseys, gave more than their weight in milk during the months of January, February, and March. On one of these farms 80 cows were fed for a twelvemonth on the produce of 34 acres, which yielded in two crops of rye and maize 700 tons of ensilaged fodder. The owner of this farm told the writer that before he adopted silos this area, would only maintain 15 cows, and that the winter supply of milk was scanty, the butter pale and flavourless. The American agriculturist looks on ensilage. as the greatest of modern dis coveries, in that it will entirely re establish, and on the safest basis, the agriculture of New England and the adjacent north-eastern States. Land was becoming valueles for tillage in these vast regions, and there was every prospect that it would in many places revert to that condition of primeval forest in which the first settlers found it. The price of dairy produce in the Atlantic cities was prodigiously high, and yet the farmer was the poorest and least progressive' member, of the com munity. Now he is holding his head up. He believes, indeed, that dairy produce will again be cheap and abund ant. But he also believes — indeed, sees — that the same space of land under these, appliances will maintain four times the number of cattle, at not more than double the cost/ or in his case, seeing that he supplies the labour, ' at not much more than half as much more cost. 