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Show ADVANTAGES OF GOOD SILO Size of Receptacle Should Be Adapted to Number of Head of Animals to Avoid Spoiling. (By PROF. W. M. EATON". Connecticut Experiment Station.) One of the greatest advantages o( the silo is that it can be made to tide over the time when there is a serious diminution of green pasture feed during dur-ing July and August. The question of the size of a silo becomes very important. im-portant. During the warmest part ol the year silage spoils very rapidly where it comes in contact with air, Spoiled silage is a dangerous sub stance to feed. Besides tainting the milk and upsetting the digestion of the cow, it often becomes poisonous To avoid this, it is necessary to fee off each day from one and a half to two inches. If this is done the silage does not have time to change or fer ment much. A silo 18 feet in diametei will feed 42 animals; 16 feet in diameter di-ameter 33 animals, and 12 feet will feed 20 animals. If the herd is large enough, two silos of different diameters di-ameters are a great economic convenience. con-venience. For the winter feed use tha large diameter, and for summer the small one. Another advantage is in filling. One will be settling while tha other is being filled and one-third more silage can be put in both. The tall, narrow silo is better than thc-broad thc-broad low one. The loss is much less. Taking ail things into consideration it is evident that a round, wooden-stave wooden-stave silo is the best. And a wooden silo, if taken care of as it always should be, can be made to last as long as a wooden building. Certain processes proc-esses can be applies to the wood, such as soaking it in some wood preservative preserva-tive or applying asphalt rim and creosote creo-sote substances to the bottom of the staves for a few feet, keeping the other outside areas well painted. These are factors which would determine deter-mine the lasting qualities of a silo. The size of the silo should bo adapted to the size of the herd. A tall silo with a rather narrow diameter di-ameter is preferable. Silage is preserved pre-served best with the least loss in a Stave Silo. round wooden-stave silo. The kind oi corn to silo is that which will produce the most nutriment per acre, whether it be flint or dent. It is an economic advantage to have corn mature for siloing. The middle of the growing season is July 20, from which date the planting and harvesting of any variety va-riety can be determined. The practical prac-tical applications of these suggestions ought to increase the value per acre of silage from 40 to 50 per cent. |