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occupants of small farms, and the difficulty increases 

 with the multiplication of silos in any community. 

 It can be obviated in part, but not wholly, by doing 

 the work on some system of co-operation between 

 farmers who are near neighbors. 



Cured in Showery Weather. — Such crops as are 

 suitable for being made into silage may be stored 

 in the silo under conditions of weather quite adverse 

 to the dry curing of the same in the ordinary way. 

 Particularly is this true of such crops as are easily 

 injured by rain, as clover for instance, and the cow- 

 pea. The work of storing may go on in some in- 

 stances without any interruption other than what is 

 caused by the work hands seeking shelter from the 

 falling rain. But in other instances more or less of 

 delay would be necessary, as it is possible to store 

 some crops in the silo with too much of moisture in 

 them. Some kinds of crops can thus be saved with 

 but little harm that would otherwise be ruined by 

 excessive wet, and they may also be handled at such 

 times with but little increase in the labor involved 

 in handling them. 



Green Food All the Year. — The silo may be 

 made to furnish green food all the year, and under 

 some conditions more easily than it can be furnished 

 from any other source. There art localities in which 

 soiling crops other than corn or sorghum cannot be 

 readily grown with marked success, and there may 

 be instances in which it would not be convenient to 

 grow them or to command the time required to cut 

 and feed them when grown. Under such conditions 

 a supply of silage in excess of the needs of the 

 stock during winter is helpful, more especially to 



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