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SILOS, EXSILAGE AKD SILAGE. 



as fifty years, and millet a hundred; and he assures us 

 that beans and other leguminous grain, if put away in 

 oil jars with a covering of ashes, will keep for a great 

 length of time. He makes a statement, also, to the 

 effect that some beans were preserved in a cavern in 



B IB IB I G IB I Q IB 



FIG. 1. 



JSeni Hassan. 



Ambracia, from the time of King Pyrrhus until the 

 piratical war of Pompeius Magnus, a period of about 

 two hundred and twenty years."* 



a b c 



FIG. 2. Thebes. 



In ancient Egypt, according to Wilkinson, "The 

 granaries were also apart from the house, and were en- 



*Nat. Hist. Vol. IV, p. 106. Bohn's Classical Library. Foure Bookes of Hus- 

 bandrie, by Conradus Heresbachius, 1586, p. 48. 



