Show pit silo saved money for illinois farmer situs llos save much money that hint would lime have tind had to hp he spent for feed on thousands of farms citrin list last year csir tile the experience per peri lence ence of ten pieda Pie flocher dc cpr nn illinois was typical topical ot of many farmers who made temporary provision for feed storage stor the trench silo boedecker said in the lie country farm bureau bulletin was 52 feet long 10 feet wide at the top eight feet wide at the bottom and six feet deep it required four men with three teams a short day to excavate A regular sized ensilage cutter was u wd used to nil all the silo which held between 40 and 50 tons sufficient to feed 31 8 cows and year yearnings yearlings lings from aroni november 24 to april 10 with no other feed except straw and corn fodder however from march 10 1 I fed no silage nt at night but clover hay and the cattle came through the R winter inter in extra good shape we covered the silage i over with ith straw ns as soon as it was filled we packed the silage in with a tractor and it settled only about six inches the only trouble we had was when snow drifted into the opening this year I 1 am using a guard to keep the snow out the corn boedecker edecker Ho used was badly injured by the drought and would have hae been a loss had it not been for his bis soli sol |