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CHAPTER VIII. 

 WHITMAN & BUERELL'S SILOS. 



Among the most enterprising experimenters with en- 

 silage are Messrs. Whitman & Burrell, dairymen at Little 

 Falls, N. Y. They have given very full accounts in 

 their local paper, the " Little Falls Journal and Courier," 

 from which we quote the essential portions of their article 

 of December 14, 1880 : 



Our new barn and silo are located on a side-hill. The 

 barn is ninety-two feet long, thirty-six feet wide, and has 

 three floors : First, the cow stable in the basement, nine 

 feet high, two rows of stanchions, twenty feet space 

 between the rows. About three feet four inches back 

 from the stanchions is a wrought-iron grating, three feet 

 three inches wide, after the plan of Prof. E. W. Stewart, 

 upon which the hind feet of the cows stand. Under the 

 grating is a trench, three feet two inches wide, and 

 twenty-eight inches deep ; this is laid in cement, and is 

 water-tight. All droppings from the cows pass through 

 the grating, and the urine is all saved, as well as the solid 

 excrement. There is a drive-way, eight feet wide, be- 

 tween these gratings. Sections of the gratings are on 

 hinges, and can be turned up, and the manure from the 

 pit loaded on to the sleigh or wagon. The vault has to 

 be cleaned out once in three or four weeks. Cows are 

 kept perfectly clean and dry, and we think the arrange- 

 ment is a good thing. 



On the floor above the cows, also nine feet high, and 

 the same size as the cow stable, is the granary and room 

 for storage of all agricultural tools, implements, and 

 machinery. This floor also has entrances so that a team 

 can be driven in at one end and out at the other. The 



