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DAIRY FARMING 



to settle a day or two and then refill. After such settling 

 there will be room for considerably more silage. 



Covering for Silage. The floor and walls of the silo 

 are air tight by construction, and where the silage has 

 been thoroughly packed, none should spoil at these places. 

 At the top, however, where the silage is exposed to the 

 air and where it is less solidly packed some of it will 

 naturally spoil. To reduce this loss of silage to a mini- 

 mum, some cheap material that will' pack well, such as 

 old, wet hay, for example, should be placed on top of the 

 silage immediately after filling, and this should be fol- 

 lowed by a thorough wetting so as to hasten the settling 

 and matting process. Usually a dozen barrels of water 

 may be run over the top of the silage to good advantage. 



S/LAGE: TRUCK. 



Depth of Silage that Must Daily Be Removed from 

 Top. Owing to the constant contact of the air with the 

 top layer of silage, it is necessary to remove a horizontal 

 layer of silage to a depth of not less than i l / 2 inches daily 

 to prevent any from spoiling. If this fact is kept in mind 

 when building a silo, its diameter can be made such as to 

 make possible the feeding of a layer of this depth daily. 



