Show HOW MUCH WILL SILO HOLD amount can be closely calculated provided number and kind of animals are known by A D WILSON the amount of required and the size of silo needed to bold it can be quite closely calculated provided the number and kind of animals to be fed from it are known before building an average cow or beet animal may be fed about thirty alve pounds of silage per day and the usual period during which silage Is used in this latitude will be about days large animals or those that are being tat bened may consume considerably more than thirty pounds per day but this has been found a fair aver age in a silo of ordinary depth the average weight of the dellage la about forty pounds per cubic toot near the top of the silo however where the presure Is not great it will weigh only twenty five pounds per cubic toot while at the bottom 0 a thirty five foot silo it may weigh sixty pounds taking these averages it a cow eats thirty five pounds of ensilage in a day she will eat thirty five fortieths or seven eighths eight hs 0 a cubic foot per day and with this as a basis it Is easy to determine the number of cubic feet of ensilage required to teed a cow or any number of cows throughout the season the diameter of the silo must be such that the stock on band can use one or two inches of silage off the top each day during ter and at least three inches per day when cummer feeding of silage Is to be practiced this Is necessary to keep the dellage f om spoiling A silo ten feet in diameter Is adapt ed to feeding ten mature cattle one twelve feet in diameter will feed alf teen bead and one fourteen feet in diameter will meet the needs 0 awen ty head but it thero are thirty or more cows to feed a sixteen foot silo should be erected these silos should be thirty or forty feet or even more in height |