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other conditions prevent, it will be well to have 

 the cornfield as near to the silo as possible to 

 save time and labor in hauling. For informa- 

 tion an cultivating and field harvesting the 

 reader is referred to the chapters on tillage and 

 harvesting. In the latter chapter the harvest- 

 ing of silage crops is given special attention. 



Pilling the silo.— The fodder-cutter should 

 be placed convenient to the silo, so that the 

 carrier may be made as short as possible. The 

 stalks are eaten up most completely when cut 

 very short, and one-half an inch is a desirable 

 length. 



After much experimental work it seems to be 

 demonstrated that rapidity of filling is on the 

 whole unimportant. Some fill as fast as they 

 can haul and cut, while others allow an inter- 

 val of two or three days to occur in course of 

 harvesting when no material is placed in the 

 silo. In each case the preservation may be 

 eminently satisfactory. 



The cut fodder .can be handled to best advan- 

 tage if deposited in the center of the silo and 

 distributed to the sides from there. Some rec- 

 ommend a cloth chute to be fastened at one end 

 of carrier, and the other end tied from time to 

 time in different directions, so as to generally 

 distribute over the entire surface. While the 

 practice is not. universally followed, the writer 

 has had the best success in preserving when 



