Show y I 1 I 1 N 4 y atiat lsna 4 silo 0 0 1 g V so 60 much L has been wn said about filoi and ensi ensilage 1 age in in this and other journals 0 u r bials within atlie the past ast few years t h it is surprising the subject should have escaped the notice of any one yet here is a new subscriber in indiana d who asks in the above question As there may be others to whom the matter is equally new we answer our inquiring correspondent entin in brief A silo is a contrivance for p preserving r e s er v i xi g green fodder in the 1110 ir fresh e s h r state a a t e in in a manner similar to that used in the canni canning ig of vegetables and a nd fruits for human humah food by exclusion of air A silo literally a abit pit is an airtight air tight receptacle it may be built of stone of brick or of bf wood it maybe may be con constructed tred entirely below ground entirely ulrey y above ground or built into a bank and bo be partly covered and partly e exposed x 0 bcd t tho b 0 im important or t a point 0 i nt being ei D g t that its ts 1 walls s shall be e a airtight r green fo forage d of any ariy kin kind d especially indian corn lit stalks alki ia is cut small and d closely packed in m the silo treading it down firmly the fodder is covered by boards or planks upon which heavy leavy weighty are placed the cover bovee follow following ing the afi e fodder as ns it settles the weight may bo be heavy lags 1 clones stones or boxes boxe filled with earth I 1 when tho the fodder Is taken out for feeding luring the winter it maybe may be quiet unchanged may mily have bave audal coholic odor or even a strong odor of vinegar in alth cr case the inn an mals arc are fond of it but as the alco holic bolic or orT acetic od odors ors indi indicate catie that thero there has been borne loss of nutritive matter by fermentation these conditions ard are not desirable and recent experiments tend to I 1 show that they may mar be avoided several power cutters are now ma e for tho the purpose I 1 0 of f pre preparing the fodder for id ill silos the tile term ensilage is applied to the method of pr preserving i fodder fand and to the fodder that has been ihu preserved the term enrilo is short and well spited for the first usa uso of the ther word ensilage we enrilo the corn fodder and it comes out of the tha pit a ai ensilage Aine american rican I 1 agriculturist I 1 for or february |