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pendicular height from the ground to the window; thus for 

 a 20 ft. silo a 28 ft. carrier is required, and for a 30 ft. 

 silo, about 42 ft. of carrier will be necessary. 



The metal Bucket Elevators for the "Ohio" Cutters 

 are made both straight away and with swivel base, which 

 enables the operator to set the cutter in the desired posi- 

 tion, and as the swivel base gives the carrier a range of 

 adjustment extending over nearly a half circle, the carrier 

 can be run directly to the window, or in the case of two 

 silos setting side by side, both can be filled with one set- 

 ting of the cutter. 



The No. 12 "Ohio" Monarch Cutter, with carrier (the 

 number of the machine indicates the length of knives and 

 width of throat), has a capacity of 8 to 12 tons of green 

 corn per hour, and requires 4 to 6 horse-power to run it to 

 full capacity, although it can be operated successfully 

 with less power, by feeding in proportion to the power at 

 hand. The Blower machines require more power to oper- 

 ate successfully than do the Carrier machines. The 14, 

 17, 19 and 22 inch "Ohio" Cutters have correspondingly 

 larger capacities, and in the case of the larger sizes the 

 amount that can be cut is only limited by the amount that 

 can be conveniently gotten to them. The largest sizes 

 can be run by an ordinary threshing engine. These ma- 

 chines have been on the market for upwards of twenty- 

 five years, and have been brought to a wonderful state 

 of perfection. For durability, ease and reliability of oper- 

 ation, capacity and general utility, they are doubtless the 

 most practical means of filling the silo. 



The Nos. 14, 17 and 19 "Ohio" Cutters are the sizes 

 mostly in use by farmers and dairymen, and the travel- 

 ing feed table, which is long enough to receive a bundle 

 of corn, is a most valuable feature, and has become almost 

 universal on the "Ohio" machines used for silo filling. It 

 decreases the labor of feeding and makes any size of ma- 

 chine about equal in capacity to the next size larger with- 

 out it. 



The newer and more modern method of elevating fod- 



