BUILDING SILOS AND MAKING SILAGE. 



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that the most of these soiling crops can be dispensed with and all the feed 

 raised at one time and in one field in the shape of corn fodder, gathered 

 at one harvest and put into the silo for the following summer feeding, and 

 thus eliminating the extra -expense of caring for so many fields and avoid 

 the danger of a failure in some of the many crops that must enter into a 

 complete system of soiling. 



THE EXPENSE OF STORING SILAGE. 



The expense of filling is often urged as an objection to the silo, but if 

 a careful account of all labor is kept, of handling corn fodder by any other 

 method by which it is so prepared that the stock will consume it as they 



CORN HARVESTER AT WORK IN FIELD CUTTING CORN FOR SILO. 



do silage, and in a form that it may be conveniently handled inside the 

 barn, it will be found that the expense will be as much or more than when 

 it is placed in the silo. 



While there is more labor required for hauling in the green corn for 

 the silo than when dry, there is also a large amount of labor saved in other 

 ways, as when corn goes into the silo the shocking is eliminated and there 

 is no husking, shelling or grinding. 



There is not a better place for the corn grain than with the fodder in 



EXPENSE OF BUILDING. 



The cost of a building or a container for silage is no more than when 

 shelter is provided for hay, especially when a good hay barn is compared 

 with a tub silo. Many farmers have become so accustomed to building 



