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FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



described in a bulletin of the California experiment station. 

 There is a large trestle that carries the beet residuum from the 

 factory and drops it into the silo below. 



" The silo is 460 feet long, 80 feet wide and 8 feet deep. It 

 is floored and sided with two-inch planks, and the sloping sides 



FIG. 10. 



Simple Style of Surface Siloing. 



are supported by heavy posts, set in the ground and braced with 

 strong timbers. Three tracks run through the silo, one on each 

 side and one in the centre, on which a car is drawn by a horse 

 to carry the pulp to the cattle barns several rods distant. " 



Another silo built on the same principle is shown in Fig. 11. 

 This may be made of the roughest sort of lumber, and of any 



FIG. 11. 



Siirface Siloing Using Lumber. 



size to suit the convenience of the feeder. This silo is 12 feet 

 wide, 30 feet long and 6 feet deep, and will hold about two 

 car-loads of cossettes. 



Figure 12 represents a simple and cheap way of constructing 

 a silo by excavating a passage through, or in a hill. " The bot- 

 toms should be planked in all such cases and means provided 



