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always lost the peculiar ai'oma of chaffed silage^ indicating the extent 

 to which fermentation has progressed. In a year like the present, 

 however, when everywhere there is ab\indance of fodder to hand, it 

 is very much better to make a stack of some kind rather than be 

 without succulent food in the dry weather. The main points about 

 the stack are that it should be circular and as high as possible. 

 Settlement will reduce the height by about one-half. The stack 

 requires to be weighted, and this is best done by placing a thicknes^ 

 of two or three feet of earth on top of it. A convenient plan is to 

 surround it with a circle of saplings to keep the walls upright, and tt> 

 locate it under a tree with a suitable branch 25 feet from the ground 

 A pulley can be attached to this, and iised to hoist up the last of the 

 fodder, and the earth to be placed on top of it. If the binder has 

 been used to cut the crop, the bands should ])e cut and the sheaves 

 spread out as the stack is being built. 



