PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 23 ^7 



Price 6s., by post 6s. 6d. 

 SECOND EDITION, Greatly Enlarged (with Illustrations and Plans of Silos). 



SILOS 



FOR 



PRESERVING BRITISH FODDER CROPS STORED 



IN A GREEN STATE. 

 NOTES ON THE ENSILAGE OF GRASSES, CLOVERS, VETCHES, &C. 



Compiled and Annotated 



BY THE 



IBIDITOIR, OIF 



CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTORY. Cattle-feeding v. corn-growing; previous information on the storage of green fodder in 

 pits ; silos in ancient and modern times. 



CHAP. 



I. Summary of Practice. 



II. CROPS FOR THE SILO. Grasses, clovers, ucerne. vetches, maize, green rye and oats, spurrey, buck- 

 wheat, comfrey, roots, and miscellaneous crops. 



III. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF SILOS. Earthen pits and other simple forms of silos; barn and other 

 converted silos; specially constructed silos of stone, brick, concrete, wood, &c. ; ensilage stacks and 

 barrels. 



IV. COST OF SILOS. Estimation of capacity cost of British silos, specially constructed; converted 

 buildings ; patent silos of concrete slabs, slate, and wood ; French silos ; relative capacity and cost 

 of silos and hay-barns; roofs. 



V. FILLING THE SILO. Mixture of dry material with green fodder ; influence of wetweather; chopping 

 up the fodder; slow v. quick filling; curbs or super-silos; the use of salt; trampling down the 

 fodder. 

 VI. COVERING AND CLOSING THE SILO. Straw and other materials; the covering boards; closing the 



doorway. 



VII. WEIGHTING THE SILO. Amount of weight to put on ; consequences of insufficient pressure ; expres- 

 sion of juice from the fodder; mechanical arrangements for pressure ; cost of apparatus. 

 VIII. OPENING THE SILO. Precautions to be taken in uncovering the silage, and removing the weights. 

 IX. EFFECT OF ENSILAGE ON FODDERS. Fermentation in the pit: advantages and losses produced by 

 fermentation ; reduction in weight and altered proportion of constituents of silage, resulting from 

 excessive fermentation. 



X. FEEDING QUALITIES OF SILAGE. Effect of amount of moisture in diluting the nutrient matters; 

 comparative money value of green fodders and silage; results of feeding experiments on the 

 condition of the animals and the production of milk and cream ; silage for horses, sheep, &c. 

 XI. EFFECT OF SILAGE ON DAIRY PRODUCE. Complaints of bad flavour in milk and butter; causes 



of conflicting reports. 

 XII. COST OF HAYMAKING v. ENSILAGE. Differences of cost of the process under various conditions. 



Price 6d., by post jd. 



SHORT NOTES ON SILO EXPERIMENTS 

 AND PRACTICE. 



(Extracted from " Silos or Preserving British Fodder Crops.") 

 Price 6d., by post yd.; or 2s. 6d. the half-dozen., by post 2s. lid. 



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