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are used with success. Some Bush-veld farmers build the silo 

 on timbers laid on the ground, with cross-pieces under the 

 ends ; a similar arrangement of poles is laid on top of the 

 stack ; the upper and lower cross-pieces are connected by 

 chains or strong steel rope, and tightened by leverage ; this 

 operation is carried out every few days, until the mass ceases 

 to settle. 



In making stack silage there is a good deal of waste on 

 the outside of the stack ; this may be reduced by paring off 



Fig. 23.S. — Making stack-silage, Standerton District, Transvaal. (Farm of 

 Messrs. Hutchinson & Shaw-, Zandbaken, Val Station.) 



the sides and ends even- three or four days while the stack is 

 being built ( Fig. 239), the parings being thrown into the centre. 

 Some farmers put a layer of wet dung 9 to 1 2 inches thick, 

 to seal up the top of the stack and prevent injury and waste. 

 742. The Pit Silo.—hx the Botanical Experiment Station, 

 Pretoria, at the Government Experiment Farm, Potchefstroom, 

 at Messrs. John Fowler and Company's Demonstration Farms, 

 Vereeniging (Fig. 2371, at Major Doyle's farm, Woburn, on 

 the Springbok Flats, and on several other farms the pit method 

 of preparing silage has been in use for several years ; in the 



