SILOS 



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maturity is not complete until after that period. The 

 farmer will soon learn to judge as to the best time for 

 cutting, remembering always that immature corn usu- 

 ally results in sour silage, while fairly well matured 

 fodder gives sweet, palatable feed. Where a large 

 amount of silage is to be handled by a comparatively 

 small force of men, it will be necessary to begin cut- 



Fig 36— Silo Attached to Barn 



ting rather early and continue until the crop is past the 

 most desirable stage. 



According to some Pennsylvania experiments corn 

 rapidly increases in the total quantity of dry matter 

 as it approaches maturity. These particular tests show 

 that the total amount of digestible matter was much 



