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two governors to go into his two silos. He put 

 both into one silo, none into the other. The 

 defects in the walls caused in some places 3 

 inches of waste around the silo containing the 

 governors. The other silo had about i foot 

 of waste around the walls. His silo was too 

 far away for me to visit, and I do not know 

 whether he had true fermentation in either of 

 them ; but he was satisfied with the governors, 

 and contemplates building more silos and or- 

 dering more governors. 



There is another great trouble I have found, 

 which is mixing my system, without heat or 

 fermentation, with the opposite one of slow 

 filling and light weighting, with heat. These 

 two systems are incompatible, and should never 

 be mixed or confounded, no matter who sug- 

 gests or advises it. It has spoiled some of my 

 best work, even after perfect forage had been 

 made in all parts of the silo. It injures the 

 forage to remove the pressure faster than the 

 forage is removed. 



I do not object to weighting if it can be 

 done so as to press down the cover evenly, 

 as could be done by placing planks across the 

 cover and weighting upon them ; but it would 

 then be very difficult to remove the weight 



