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The corn should be cut fine, % to ^ inch 

 long. The pressure should give about 30 

 inches of juice in the bottom of the silo, and 

 is a better guide for pressure than weighting 

 a certain number of pounds, because that 

 amount of juice has been found sufficient 

 under pressure, with the absorption of car- 

 bonic acid and capillary attraction to carry the 

 juice to the top of the forage, displacing all. air 

 and free gas, representing canned goods by 

 cold pressure instead of heat. This statement 

 must be understood to include the device for 

 removing air and other gases, without which 

 it cannot be done. In large silos, one gover- 

 nor should be placed on the bottom and one 

 in the centre of the silo. These act so 

 promptly that we get juice in the bottom be- 

 fore we get the cover on, and act continuously 

 for six weeks, removing air, carbonic and acetic 

 acid, the forage continually improving in qual- 

 ity from the filling to removing it from the 

 silo. The covering plank is laid directly upon 

 the corn. There is no waste whatever of for- 

 age in the silo, or at the feeding-trough. 

 There is no odor from the forage in the silo, 

 about the barn, or from the hands and cloth- 

 ing after handling it. Cattle will eat one ton 

 per month continuously. If the corn is put in 



