Show lily I 1 mv VALUE OF TRENCH SOIL IN FEEDING many advantages outlined by colorado expert N advantages obtained by feeding ill illg g to live ive stock and suggestions for constructing on an inexpensive trench silo are outlined by E K J maynard associate animal husban dryman at the colorado agricultural college years of experimental feeding have clearly indicated that corn or cane silage Is a valuable growing and fattening feed for live stock silling the crop offers a method of conserving it indefinitely and also renders hard woody portions of stalk soft and palatable where nearly 50 per cent of dry bundle fodder may be wasted when fed directly to live stock practically per centon cent of the same crop converted into silage will be consumed thus silage offers an enormous saving to livestock live stock feeders with nil all the favorable results secured with silage there are very few silos in the non irrigated regions this is believed to lo be principally due to the cost of building silos and the cost of filling them A remedy to this situation has been found in the trench silo and machinery for cutting up forage crops into wagons in the field the trench silo Is usually built with scrapers it la Is generally front from 12 to 14 feet wide about 0 to 8 feet deep and as long as necessary to hold the crop if possible it should be built in gravelly well drained soil and the sides should slope elope gradually toward the cent center er the cutup cut up forage Is packed into 1 this it Is trench sl silo lo 10 by driving over it with teams or a tractor it should be moist enough to pack well it can be sealed best by covering it with about a foot of dirt the silage Is fed froth from one end where the feeding surface Is kept as even as possible plans for building trench allos may be secured from the extension service of the agricultural college |