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gether with 2,470 pounds of sweet corn and 1.000 pounds of 

 Honduras sugar cane, and tranaping all down firmly, we found 

 that the silo was filled to within one foot of the top. That is, 

 150,222 pounds of the cut fodder occupied a space of ■IjSSG cubic 

 feet, or 33 pounds per cubic foot. Of course the space occupied 

 varies greatly with the depth of the fodder, the fineness to which 

 it is cut and the thoroughness with which it is tramped. 



CLOVER FOR ENSILAGE. 



As soon as the cutter stopped, a team was hitched to the mower 

 and we cut all the second growth clover we could get. As fast as 

 a load was cut it was drawn to the silo and put in without having 

 been run through the cutter. In this way five tons were put in. 

 One of the loads of green clover was drawn in during a rain 

 storm, and one load stood on the wagon out of doors in the rain 

 over night, and water was dropping from it when pitched into the 

 silo the next morning. 



COVERING THE SILO. 



After putting in the green clover it was carefully spread and 

 trampled down in order that it might settle evenly. When this 

 had been done the clover extended about half way up the plank 

 wall ; that is, it was about two and a half feet thick. Directly 

 upon the clover were placed two-inch plank ten inches wide, ex- 

 tending across the silo from wall to wall. The plank were cut 

 about an inch shorter than the silo was wide, so that in settling 

 there should be no danger of binding. 



Having laid the plank over the clover like a floor, we proceeded 

 at once to put on stone which had been previously collected from 

 the fields about the farm and brought to the barn and piled up 

 after having been weighed. Loads of these were drawn directly 

 into the barn, and the boulders were passed into the silo through 

 the same opening that the ensilage had been passed in at. Four 

 men with one team placed eighteen tons of stone in half a day. 

 This gave a weight of 112 pounds to the square foot. It is proba- 

 ble that a less weight would have done, but the clover was show- 

 ing great heat and was so long and matted that it could not be 

 easily compressed like short cut corn stalks. Knowing' that if the 



