Ensilaged Grain
One of the most interesting materials for ensilage is brewers' grain. Unlike green forage, which may be ensilaged in small quantities day by day, grain must be tight-packed within twenty- four hours. At the end of that time its internal heat is already great ; it boils beefily. After some weeks it cools off, and in a few months is an entirely cool feeding material, which is said to have half the feed value of best June hay and a quarter of that of cattle cake. Bought in summer, however, its cost is ex- tremely low. Grain is then thirty-five shillings, cake fourteen pounds per ton. Those who advocate drastic measures of tem- perance reform in war-time may therefore like to remember that milk is sometimes, indirectly, a by-product of beer.