228 Ensilage. 



handling of the fodder. A good plan is to use 

 three wagons and two teams. A load is brought 

 to the cutting machine, and driven alongside. 

 Two men are required at the cutter, one to unload, 

 the other to feed. The driver leaves his wagon 



Showing the McCormick corn harvester cutting corn on newly tile- 

 drained ground in field where the draft trials were made. 



there, and goes to the field with one that has just 

 been emptied. The driver loads his own wagon. 

 This makes four men to deliver the fodder to the 

 silo, and one man inside to keep it level and thor- 

 oughly tramped around the edges, the engineer and 

 the man who runs the harvester. The cutting may 

 go on for a day or two before the filling begins. 

 The wilting of the fodder will do no harm (a heavy 



