FARM DAIRYING 



"Place your silo in the most convenient place possible 

 both for filling and feeding. See to it that you have the 

 drain a little deeper than bottom of trench to carry off 

 any water that might collect. The bottom of the silo 

 should be of earth shaped like a plate, and just before 

 filling place a layer of straw thereon. A floor of this 

 kind allows any extra juice in corn to escape and does 

 not sour the silage in the bottom. 



"For filling we have a 13-horsepower engine and a 

 blower box requiring only one good day to fill. 



"We have not had one forkful of spoiled silage so far. 

 It does freeze some around the wall, but this does not 

 spoil the silage if fed as soon as it thaws out. 



"A roof should always be put on a silo to keep the 

 sparrows from eating all the corn and leaving the cobs 

 for the cows." 



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