CHAPTER IX 



Silas— Eoratum, (ttmurtrnrtUm a«h JFtUtnn 



^JTHE location of the silo should be given careful 

 III attention, for silage is heavy and it should 

 \r not be necessary to carry it very far. The 

 silos should be as near the manger as practi- 

 cable and convenient to the feeding trough. Many 

 silos are constructed within the barn where the 

 silage is to be fed, or just outside the barn but 

 connected with it by means of a passageway. They 

 are frequently built against the barn with the doors 

 opening inside the building. Having the silo wholly 

 within the barn is not only convenient, but in cold 

 climates where the silage is apt to freeze between feed- 

 ing periods the protection afforded by the building 

 surrounding the silo is very desirable. In some cases 

 where the silage is to be fed in several buildings it may 

 be well to construct the silo entirely distinct from any 

 of them. In many respects this is most desirable when 

 feeding dairy cows. For if the silo is inside of the 

 barn and any of the silage is dropped and not removed 

 at once, a disagreeable odor arises which taints the air, 

 and being taken in into the lungs of the cows injures 

 the quality of the milk. If it is necessary to have the 

 silo inside of the dairy barn, build a partition between 

 it and the cows in order to keep out all disagree- 

 able odors. 



GENERAL CLASSES OF SILOS 



There are three different kinds of silos — wooden, 

 stone and brick. The wooden silo is by far the cheap- 

 est and in most localities the one to build. Where 

 building stone is abundant and cheap, it may pay to 



