202 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
other conditions prevent, it will be well to have 
the cornfield as near to the silo as possible t9 
save time and labor in hauling. For informa- 
tion on cultivating and field harvesting the 
- reader is referred to the chapters on tillage and 
harvesting. In the latter chapter the harvest- 
ing of silage crops is given special attention. 
Filling the silo—The fodder-cutter should 
be placed convenient to the silo, so that the 
carrier may be made as short as possible. The 
stalks are eaten up most completely when cut 
very short, and one-half an inch is a desirable 
length. 
After much experimental work it seems to be 
demonstrated that rapidity of filling is on the 
whole unimportant. Some fill as fast as they 
can haul and cut, while others allow an inter- 
val of two or three days to occur in course of 
harvesting when no material is placed in the 
silo. In each case the preservation may be 
eminently satisfactory. 
The cut fodder can be handled to best advan- 
tage if deposited in the center of the silo and 
distributed to the sides from there. Some rec- 
ommend a cloth chute to be fastened at one end 
of carrier, and the other end tied from time to 
time in different directions, so as to generally 
distribute over the entire surface. While the 
practice is not universally followed, the writer 
has had the best success in preserving when 
