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and have been feeding from 50 to 100 pounds 

 daily, mixed with the shorts, to our milkers. 

 This juice was drawn off, clear, sweet, and 

 odorless, from the bottom of the silo. 



The governor collects and distributes the 

 juice to and from all parts of the silo, and con- 

 veys the surplus from the centre to the outside, 

 under the cemented bottom, to be drawn off 

 as wanted. In making ensilage where no 

 governor is used, it is seldom that any juice 

 collects in the silo, even with i to 200 pounds' 

 weight upon each square foot of surface ; so 

 that pressing green forage by this system 

 requires not half the pressure to produce 

 better results, with much greater economy. 

 In controlling the operations inside the silo, 

 we are guided quite as much by the quantity 

 and quality of the juice as by the gases, odor, 

 and temperature. 



Carbonic Acid is perfectly wholesome in 

 the stomach, and performs a good use in the 

 silo; but it is necessary to be very careful 

 working in a silo where it is, as no breathing 

 animal can live in an atmosphere of it more 

 than a few minutes. Acetic Acid is also very 

 plentiful in the silo, and quite wholesome. It 

 is the acid that causes the sour taste in every 

 silo ; and we are apt to get too much of it, as 

 it is readily absorbed by the juice. But a 



