Ensilage in America. By James E. Thorold Rogers, M.P. (W.
Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—It is just possible that some of our readers may not know that "ensilage" is the practice of storing green fodder in pits—if that may be called a pit which may be wholly, and generally is in part, above-ground—that are air-tight and water- tight, as far as may be. The practice has been largely adopted in the United States, and Mr. Rogers has collected in this little volume a number of facts relating to its economical value. To marshal these facts is one of his objects in this little volume ; the other is to discuss the prospects of the method in English agriculture. Certainly, the matter, to an outsider, has a very hopeful look. If the landlords would build, or encourage their tenants to build, silos, it is pro- bable that they might be more usefully employed than in trying to shift the burden of local taxation from the right shoulder to the left.
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