Show OLIVE TOCK VALUE OF TRENCH SOIL IN FEEDING Many Advantages Outlined by Colorado Expert Advantages obtained by feeding silage to live stock and suggestions for tor constructing an Inexpensive trench silo are outlined by l K J J. J Maynard Maynard Maynard May- May nard associate animal at the Colorado Agricultural college Years of ot experimental feeding have clearly Indicated that corn or cane cone silage is n a valuable growing and fattening fattening fat fat- feed for live stock the crop offers a n method of conserving it Indefinitely and also I renders hard woody portions of stalk soft and palatable Where nearly GOper 00 GO per cent of dry bundle fodder may inny maybe maybe be wasted when fed directly to live livestock livestock stock stoel practically per cent of ot the will willbe willbe willbe same crop converted Into silage be consumed Thus silage offers alTers an enormous saving to stock live feeders With nil all the favorable results secured secured secured se se- se- se cured with silage there are very few silos In the non-irrigated non regions regions- This Is believed to 10 be principally due to the cost of building silos and aull the cost of filling them A remedy to this situation hits his 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 Is generally from 12 to 14 feet wide about G a to S 8 feet deep and as long as necessary to hold holtI the crop If It possible It should be he built In gravelly well drained soil soli and the sides should slope gradually toward the center The cut up forage Is packed Into luto this trench silo by bJ driving over it with teams or a tractor It should he be moist enough to pack well It can be sealed best by covering It with about n a foot of dirt The fhe silage is fed ted from one end where the feeding surface Is kept as even as ns possible Plans for building trench silos may maybe maybe be secured from Crom the extension service of the agricultural college |