24 H. R. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



the surface. With many who have basements under their barns, a 

 silo, or pit, could be made outside, close to the basement-wall, located 

 in a place where it would be most convenient to use in the basement, 

 or otherwise, by making a passage-way to the pit, or silo, through the 

 foundation walls of the barn. Any form or construction of silos, or 

 pits, which answers the location and condition may be used, such as 

 pits or wells, open only at the top, the food being put in and taken 

 out from the top only. Such silos, or pits, would have the advantage, 

 that successive croppings might be put in the same pit, or silo, one 

 above the other, each being sealed with a layer of earth when put 

 in. The deeper the silo, or pit, the more they will contain in propor- 

 tion to measurement, owing to the greater density of the contents 

 from the weight of the mass above ; and, the greater the pressure, 

 the more thorough the exclusion of the air, and, without any doubt, 

 the better preservation of the ensilage. 



