FEEDING SILAGE. 



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Because of this waste from feeding silage thus 

 in sections, it may be better to have one or more par- 

 titions in the silo. Tliis can be managed easily 

 enough in a square or oblong silo, but it is practi- 

 cally impossible in a stave silo, because of the resist- 

 ance which a partition w ould offer to the tightening 

 of the staves sometimes required with a stave silo. 

 When partitions are used, one section of the silage 

 can be all fed out before another section is disturbed. 

 But it should be remembered, as already intimated, 

 that the greater the number of partitions in a silo 

 the greater relatively is the loss of spoiled silage 

 likely to be. 



Conveying Silage to the Animals. — When the 

 silo is not close to the place of feeding and when 

 large quantities of silage are to be fed, it may be nec- 

 essary to draw the silage in a cart or dray, from 

 which it can be shoveled into the feed mangers. But 

 when the silo is near to the place of feeding, the food 

 can best be conveyed in a box truck or car, a hand 

 cart or a basket. If conveyed in a truck or car, the 

 track on which it runs should of course be laid in 

 the feeding alley in front of the mangers, so that 

 the silage may be shoveled from the car or truck 

 into the mangers. When conveyed in a hand cart, 

 one with three wheels and drawn or pushed by 

 means of a short tongue is very convenient, since it 

 may be easily moved from place to place and easily 

 turned within a limited area. When fed in limited 

 quantities the silage may be carried in a basket. 

 When conveyed in a box car, truck or hand cart, the 

 silage can be thrown directly into one or the other 

 of these from the silo. A fork with several tines in 



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