PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



SECOND EDITION, Greatly Enlarged (with Illustrations and Plans of Silos). 

 Price 6s., hy post Gs. 6d. 



SILOS 



FOB 



PEESEEVINa BRITISH FODDEE CEOPS STOEED 

 IN A GEEEN STATE. 



Notes on the Ensilage of Grasses, Clovers, Vetches, &c. 



COMPILED AND ANNOTATED 

 BY THE 



STJB-:E^DITOI^ OIF* "THIEI IFISXilD." 



CONTENTS. 

 Introductory. — Cattle-feeding v. corn-growing; previous information on the 



storage of green fodder in pits ; silos in ancient and modern times. 

 CHAP. 



I. — Summary of Practice. 

 II. — Crops for thu Silo. — Grasses, clovers, lucerne, vetches, maize, green rye 



and oats, spurrey, buckwheat, comfrey, i-oots and miscellaneous crops. 

 III.— The Various Kinds of Silos.— Earthern pits and other simple forms of 

 silos ; barn and other converted silos ; specially constructed silos of stone, 

 brick, concrete, wood, &c. ; ensilage stacks and barrels. 

 IV. — Cost of Silos. — Estimation of capacity; cost of British silos, specially 

 constructed ; converted buildings ; patent silos of concrete slabs, slate, 

 and wood; French silos; relative capacity and cost of silos and hay 

 bams; roofs. 

 V. — Filling the Silo.— Mixture of dry material with green fodder ; influence 

 of wet weather ; chopping up the fodder; slow v. quick filling ; curbs or 

 super-silos ; the use of salt ; trampling down the fodder. 

 VI.— Covering and Closing the Silo.— Straw and other materials ; the cover- 

 ing boards ; closing the doorway. 

 VII. — Weighting the Silo.— Amount of weight to put on; consequences of 

 insufficient pressure; expression of juice from the fodder; mechanical 

 arrangements for pressure ; cost of apparatus. 

 VIII. — Opening the Silo. — Precautions to be taken m uncovering the silage, and 

 removing the weights. 

 IX.— Effect of Ensilage on Fodders.— Fermentation in the pit ; advantages 

 and losses produced by fermentation; reduction in weight and altered pro- 

 portion of constituents of silage, resulting from excessive fermentation. 

 X.— Feeding Qualities of Silage.— EiTect of amount of moisture in diluting 

 the nutrient matters; comparative money value of green fodders and 

 silage; results of feeding experiments on the condition of the animals 

 and the production of milk and cream ; silage for horses, sheep, <fec. 

 XL— Effect of Silage on Dairy Produce.— Complaints of bad flavour in 

 milk and butter; causes of conflicting reports. 

 XIL— Cost of Haymaking v. Ensilage.— Differences of cost of the process 

 under various conditions. 



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SHORT NOTES ON SILO EXPERIIWENTS AND PRACTICE. 



(Extracted from "Silos for Preserving British Fodder Crops.") 

 " THE FIELD " OFFICE, 346, 8TEAND, W.C. 



