Show distribution of silage to obtain an even distribution 0 of silage an illinois farmer has hit bit upon a simple but effective device an ordinary pitchfork Is bound alongside the down pipe of the silo filler the tines pointing downward and extending perhaps a foot or sixteen inches below the end of 0 the spout just above the tines a pole Is attached to the fork by means of a snap ring wire clevis or other convenient menns means this pole extends to the removable doors of the silo from which one man directs the stream of fodder about as necessary the resulting silage has been as good as that tramped tramped by as many as five men similar results are reported from time to time by other farmers |