2O Colcord's System of 



doing, we press all the contents of the silo to 

 a uniform density, the forage slipping in the 

 silo, and finding its level and density like mor- 

 tar in a bucket. 



Now, we are supposed to have a silo full of 

 this preserved forage, 20 feet deep, consisting 

 of from i to 400 tons. We have a door 

 4*4 x 6 feet, in one end of the silo, said door 

 opening upon the barn floor, the door-sill being 

 10 feet from the bottom of the silo. We now 

 roll the door to one side, and find some boards 

 tacked onto the edges of 2 x 8 plank, fastened 

 with 4-inch lag-screws to the 3x12 inch door 

 jams, on each side, leaving the 2-inch matched 

 plank flush with the inside of the silo. We 

 remove the boards, then the wet sand between 

 the boards and plank, then the side plank, 

 fastened with the lag-screws, then the inside 

 plank, the removal of which presents a solid 

 wall of green forage, with every particle of it 

 in perfect preservation and ready to feed out, 

 the doorway having been secured air-tight. 

 We cut this preserved forage down, vertically 

 and evenly, with a sharp lightning-hay-knife, 

 leaving a solid, smooth face, which prevents 

 the air from getting into the forage. We then 

 discover that more than half the feed has to be 

 elevated from i to 10 feet to the barn floor. 



