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use. The stacks are usually provided with some 

 sort of an arrangement for pressing the forage. 



That it could be done in this country is evident. 

 Two canning factories in Mount Morris, N. Y., 

 stack their pea vines, corn husks and cobs. These 

 factories ensilage the husks of over a thousand 

 acres of corn yearly, and winters feed out this 

 stacked refuse to several hundred bullocks. The 

 pea vines from nearly as many acres more are 

 stacked in the same way (whole). 



This year one of the factories ran the refuse 

 through a cutting box into a rough plank silo about 

 thirty feet in diameter. The planks were rough 

 just as they came from the saw-mill, set on end, 

 and hooped with half-inch round iron. No roof was 

 put on, and when the silage settled, the staves were 

 taken down, the silage stood, and the whole mass 

 kept in perfect form. Next year the staves (2 by 6 

 inch plank) will be set up again. As to its spoiling, 

 there is six or eight inches on the sides that rots, and 

 is thrown into the manure heap. As to freezing, 

 they experience no inconvenience from that. If the 

 top freezes a little, it is mixed with the unfrozen ; 

 fermentation sets up, and the frozen part is thawed 

 out by its own combustion. 



