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 v nhen hen the silo Is located too far away from the windmill to run water directly from the windmill to the t trench rench explains E J meadows washington county extension agent in a report to the colorado Ca lorado agricultural college when gray dug his ton tod silo he be 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 onto this mound with a tractor As the corn silage is cut he siphons the water through it a hose from a tank lot inta the cutter and evenly distribute the water through the silage |