42 SILOS AND ENSILAGE. 



floor above is the main barn floor, and entrance is from 

 the side-hill right into the center of the barn. The silo 

 is on the hill-side next to the barn, thus : 



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The bottom of the silo is on a level with the cow- 

 stable floor, and there are entrances into the silo from 

 both the cow-stable and the floor above. The top of the 

 silo is on a level with the upper or main floor of the 

 barn, so that the fodder can be taken out on either of 

 the three floors of the barn. You will appreciate the 

 convenience of this arrangement. The silo is built of 

 stone ; the walls are three feet thick next to the bank, 

 and two feet thick next to the barn ; the roof of the barn 

 extends over the silo. All around the walls twelve inches 

 of cobble stone are filled in from top to bottom, so as to 

 prevent any water lodging against the walls. Capacity of 

 entire silo about four hundred tons, or two hundred tons 

 for each compartment. 



On June 1st we put in about seven acres of corn, with 

 a drill, rows twenty-one inches apart, and dropping six 

 or eight kernels to a foot. In September we cut the same, 

 hauled to the silo as fast as we cut in the field, and with 

 a feed cutter of the largest size, or next to largest size, we 

 cut, at the rate of over one hundred loads per day, into 

 pieces three-sixteenths to one-quarter of an inch in 

 length, which was evenly distributed in the silos and 



