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//. I?. STEVENS ON ENSILAGE. 



Other forms of silo can be built with more compartments, if de- 

 sired. Messrs. Whitman and Burrell recommend, for one hundred 

 cows, a silo of suitable size to divide into three compartments, by 

 means of cross- walls, and then feed out one silo at a time : this 

 would provide an empty silo in the spring, which would be ready for 

 the winter rye, clover, June grass, which could be harvested early in 



June, cut up same as corn-fodder, 

 and stored in silos for summer feed- 

 ing. Mr. O. B. Potter of New York 

 makes a series of silos, or pits, in sec- 

 tions as annexed diagram, which rep- 

 resents a horizontal section of pits 

 thus constructed, taken through the 

 doorways near the bottom of the pits. 

 Each one of these sections, or silos, 

 will hold seventy-five tons. The 

 twelve will hold nine hundred tons. 

 The entrance-pit will hold one hundred 

 and fifty tons. Each section is twen- 

 ty feet long, ten feet wide, and fifteen 

 feet deep. The entrance-pit is forty 

 feet in length, fifteen feet deep, and 

 ten feet wide. 



STABLE. It will be seen, from this construc- 



tion, that as many tiers of piers may 



be made, end to end, at right angles to the first or entrance-pit, 

 as may be required and space allow ; and that, after the contents of 

 this first or entrance-pit are fed out, each of the other row of pits 

 may be opened and fed out, one pit at a time ; and that only the sur- 

 face of the food at the end of the one pit which is being fed will 

 at any time be exposed to the air until the whole are fed out. 



ENTRANCE-PIT. 



