Show aids to usefulness on ensilage cutter additions that cut cost of equipment A reasonable objection to individual u farmers equipping their farms farma with ensilage cutters has been that this piece of equipment can be used only a few days each year occupying storage space the remainder of the time this led to the equipping of one of the standard teed feed grinders with a feed table knives and elevating tan fan or blower such feed mills then with a few minor adjustments are converted into silage cutters with those them farmers can fill their silos at capacities as large as ordinary farm tractors will handle where trench or pit silos are used the elevating fan fail Is disconnected and the cut fodder dropped directly into the silo with a machine of this kind farmere fill their silos then instead of putting this machine into storage the next eleven months they put it back into the barn granary or corn crib and cut grind and mix the other feeds both grain and forages tor for their live stock throughout the remainder of the year the earning ability of a piece of equipment of this kind is many times greater than one which only fills silos or only grinds grain since it Is used throughout the year for the preparation of all the feeds used by farm herds and flocks missouri farmer I 1 |