Preserving Green Forage 19 



FILLING AND EMPTYING THE SILO. 



We do not care to tread down the corn as 

 we fill the silo, but only keep it level and walk 

 over it for the purpose of finding soft spots, 

 which we fill up level. When we get the silo 

 full, we tread it hard and level, rounding it up 

 over the top, even above the cross timbers, 

 and allow it to remain until the next morning, 

 when we level it and tread again ; then put on 

 cover, and then the 6x8 cross timbers 2 feet 

 from the side walls, placing the jack-screws 

 between the timbers. The governor being in 

 place, we drop a thermometer, appended to a 

 string, into the governor, to the centre of the 

 silo. We also put a stick in the upright pipe 

 of the bottom governor, said stick being long 

 enough to touch the bottom of the pipe, for 

 the purpose of measuring the juice. We take 

 this measure daily ; also take the temperature 

 daily, and press as often as required. All the 

 corn is cut to half-inch pieces, and is therefore 

 a homogeneous mass. When we press it, we 

 mark a long stick to feet and inches, setting it 

 opposite to one of the screws. We then turn 

 down that screw to the mark we wish them all 

 to go to, taking the stick to the next screw, 

 and so on, pressing all alike, measuring from 

 the top of the silo around the wall. By so 



