| Show I ABOUT ENSILAGE Silos Me AI mal and no lEow linde find and Filled A silo is 18 simply nn an air airtight tight water watertight tight box boic In whIch c green n succulent herbage ma may be placed and PI preserved ed edIt It ma may be square oblong or round In Inform form Corm and It mar ini bo be made malIc or of wood brIck cement or earth the tho latter b being ln sImplY trenches dug In the ground One ot of the most wo we ever sow saw con can slated of at two PItS Inside m measure sure mont ment 24 feet teet deV deep with In the corners made by sawing diagonally Q a G 6 GInch Inch timber and nailinG them In the Ule corners mers Ass All kinds ot of crops ma may be preserved In the silo Corn Com has been the most generally used but clover sor sorghum millet anti CO S are aro x The sl b corn for lor Is 13 tilo tho varlet variety which matures best In your our locality Plenty ot of ears well do de elope J should be 00 the tho first tion The planting and cultivating should be done as It if for tor sowing owing for tor the tho 1 boat crop 01 o field corn It should bo be cut when the stalks are fully tull matured be beIn belag In lag then full rull or of matter mailer and consequently contain containing tho greatest of nutriment ThIs stage is lii by full blossoming If the harvesting Is delayed until the leaves fade or turn yellow the air will have entered the cells and started fer and cut in thin von wilt Invariably be become come sour Plic corn cutter is time heat machine for cutting the corn odder in inthe the field previous to It The finer it is cut the better it wili keep In tIme silo Inch lengths are best It 0 pock better and er elude time air morn thoroughly anti IL Is Ison on this latter that success with There ore several ensilage cutters on the market Crops Intended for ensilage should be cut and packed into the silo quickly after gathering as any wilting or ox to sun or air is apt to produce fermentation The filling of time silo must be done carefully In order to ox elude the air an much as and to distribute time fodder evenly in the silo If the tilling occupies much time so that the becomes heated some of the cooled allege near time sides should be from time to time thrown in into to the center and with the warmest so as to keep the temperature of the whole mass its even as Possible Provided the work is care carefully fully done it makes no difference whether the filling le continuous or cx tends over several days The necessIty of weighting the silo was once Insisted upon but now opinion is divided A layer of tarred paper covered about Indira deep with green grass imas been found its effectual as weighting heavily with rocks En Ensilage silage Is a very product and the need of careful treat mont is taken out of the silo for use It is desirable to cx pose as little of the contents as poss ble to the action of the air The fodder should be removed perpendicularly to the bottom of the pit The silo should be so located as to cc cure the greatest convenience in filling and feeding Estimate forty to fifty pounds per day ac ho ration for a mature cow or horse then allow one cubic foot of silo for each head of stock by the number of days you expect to feed thus 10 cows Tho days equals days feeding of forty pounds per day equal to arid would require a silo any 10 feet square by 20 feet which would hold tons A silo hold tons Never lie afraid of build building ing too large a silo time fault is gener generally ally In the other direction One feed per day of good hay one teed of forty to fifty pounds of and one food pf cut dry with a small amount of feed makes an excellent winter dIet for time dairy It gives the cows the variety whIrls they need arid Is strongly by many of our moat prominent dairymen |
