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clover," " pitted clover," etc., or even, " to bury corn," " burying 

 corn," " buried corn," etc. 



This system, then, is no longer an experiment : it is one approved 

 of by the experience of years, it may be of centuries ; and even its 

 more recent application to the preservation of Indian corn has been 

 thoroughly and successfully tried in France and elsewhere by hun- 

 dreds of enterprising farmers. 



CHAPTEK IV. 



LOCATION OF SILOS. 



THE location of a silo should be as near the barn as possible, 

 for convenience and saving of labor in feeding stock. With many 

 farmers who have a barn basement, a silo can be built in the same, 

 and made quite convenient for feeding their stock. As many base- 

 ments of this kind are not over eight or nine feet high, it would be 

 practicable to excavate or dig to the required depth, if the surround- 

 ings will allow it ; or the silo could be built up through the barn floor, 

 say two, three or four feet, and, with an eight or nine feet basement, 

 would give a fair depth to a silo of this kind and size. 



Some have made silos under the carriage-house which is connected 

 with their barn, and made very good ones. In locating a silo, the 

 top part of the silo should come near the level of the barn-floor, 

 or where the fodder-cutter will stand, so that it will drop right into 

 the silo. If your barn is situated on a side-hill slope, and your stock 

 are kept in the basement of the barn, by building your silo on the 

 upper side, and, when your fodder is cut, drops into the silo, your 

 door opening out of the silo into the basement, you have a very con- 

 venient location of silo for all work, and also a silo that will be of 

 the right degree of temperature for the preserving of ensilage ; as I 

 consider a silo under ground, or mostly under ground, better adapted 

 to the extreme high temperature and extreme low temperature of our 

 climate. In a soil that is naturally dry, a silo can be placed at the 

 required depth. In some locations where it is naturally wet, or 

 where, by going to the depth of five or six feet, you come to water, 

 it would be better, to get the required height, to build partly above 



