38 AMERICAN DAIRYING. 



I have known this trouble in my locality in the 

 last two years. Some of my corn got frosted 

 last season before we were through filling the 

 silos and I sprinkled it as it passed from the 

 cutter up the elevator. I accomplished this by 

 conducting water through a hose to the foot of 

 the elevator and spraying the corn as it dropped 

 from the cutter into the foot of the elevator. 

 This should be done with frosted corn or corn 

 that has become too dry from any cause. Do 

 not be afraid the water will do any harm, as it 

 will not, but there is danger of harm if the 

 water is not used. This information cost me 

 enough so that I remember it. 



If we put corn into the silo that has not suf- 

 ficient weight in itself to pack so as to exclude 

 the air we must add water sufficient to accom- 

 plish this or provide some other means of doing 

 it, or we will have moldy silage or perhaps find 

 there has been sufficient heat to cause it to be 

 black, and it will smell like burned molasses. 



How fast to flU the silo. — When corn has 

 reached the stage of denting to glazing we can 

 safely put it in as fast as cut in the field. In 

 fact I think it best to do so. For a part of my 

 work last season I had a machine that cut one 

 row at a time and elevated it onto the wagon 

 driven by the side. With it two men and five 

 horses cut and load one row as fast as the horses^ 

 walk. This was a trial machine, but I am hope- 



