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HOW TO aiAKE SILAGE. 



By far the easiest method of unloading- is to drive across the 

 end of the traveling feed table as shown in the illustration Fig. 

 55. This brings the bundles into proper position for the feeder 

 to simply slide them endwise onto the feed table requiring little 

 or no lifting. By starting at the front of load and moving up as 

 the unloading proceeds one man can handle the work very much 

 quicker in this way and with far less labor, and two men can 

 also work to advantage if desired. This method of feeding should 

 be practiced wherever the setting of cutter or engine permits 

 driving the machine from the opposite or front end. Its labor- 

 saving advantages will be readily seen when contrasted with the 

 plan of feeding from the side of cutter as shown in Fig. 49, i-iage 

 108, where the entire weight of each load, perhaps one to two 

 tons, is lifted waist-high and thrown forward. 



To secure best results from the standpoint of both men and 

 equipment, regular steady feeding should be piracticed at all 

 times. A little judgment used at this point in properly lapping 

 the bundles so as to keep up a constant and uniform supply will 

 not only produce larger capacity, but will relie\'e the heavy uneven 

 strain to which a silage cutter is usually subjected. 



The length of cutting practiced differs somewhat with different 

 farmers and with the variety oi: corn to be siloed. Care should 

 be taken in tliis respect. howe\'er. for the length of cut has much 



Fig. 55.— Showing one of easiest methods of unloading corn at 

 cutter. 



