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Show How One Farmer Saved Labor in Filling Silo An easy, simple method of handling water needed in wetting down silage while filling a trench silo is being used by Roy Gray, a farmer living 15 miles northeast of Akron, Colo. This method is especially helpful when the silo is located too far away from the windmill to run water directly di-rectly from the windmill to the trench, explains E. J. Meadows, Washington county extension agent, In a report to the Colorado Agricultural college. When Gray dug his 200-ton silo he piled part of the excavated earth to one side of the trench, and built a mound about 5 feet high near the place where the silage cutter would be stationed. Using a skid, he hauled tanks of water wa-ter onto this mound with a tractor. As the corn silage is cut, he siphons the water through a hose from a tank int5 the cutter, and evenly distributes the water through the silage. |