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however, is largely overcome by cutting the corn with 

 a binder and using a double harpoon fork for elevating 

 and dropping into the silo. The green corn is loaded 

 on the low wagons in sections so that the fork can 

 handle it nicely. In taking the whole silage out for 

 feeding the same apparatus is used, merely reversing 

 the process. 



Fig 38 shows how Mr Hodgson of Wisconsin 

 places the bundles. When the silo is square they are 

 placed at a, the dotted line representing the top of the 

 silo. In a round silo the bundles are laid round and 

 round as at b, and have this appearance when seen 



Fig 38— Placing Bundles in Square and Round Silo 



from above. Mr Hodgson's round silo holds one 

 hundred and thirty tons. He has stored whole corn in 

 this manner for twelve years and is perfectly satisfied. 

 He claims that it is sweeter and that his animals eat it 

 more readily than when cut. 



The cost of putting up silage will depend upon the 

 distance from the field, the implements used, etc. As a 

 general rule and with ordinary appliances silage can be 

 put up for about forty cents per ton. Some farmers 

 have done this work for twenty to twenty-five cents per 

 ton and some have paid sixty to eighty cents. 



The preserving of feed in the silo makes it possible 

 not only to secure succulent forage in winter, when 



