at Home and Abroad. 
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bagging apparatus, 6 at s, s, is covered with a sieve, to let the air and dust out 
when cutting hay or straw. 
When the silo is sufficiently low and convenient, and it is not required to 
bag the product, the bagging apparatiis b is removed, and a pole, p, p, shown 
by^the dotted lines, is inserted into sockets provided for it, and a hanging 
board, k, is placed on it at any desired distance from the machine to prevent 
the product being thrown too far. The horse-shafts fix on at J, j. 
When it is desired to elevate higher, the bagging apparatus being removed, 
the mouth of the knife-wheel cover is moved round, and a trunk or spout of 
the required length attached to it. 
This latter arrangement is not included in the price,' 35?., and 47. 4s. for 
extra knife-wheel, but is charged for extra. 
Fig. 21. — Transverse Section of Bust's " Ensilage" Cutter. 
I have onlv dwelt sufficiently upon this subject to satisfy 
those who wish to build or otherwise make silos this summer 
that the assumed difficulty of filling silos above ground, espe- 
cially with chopped material, is by no means insuperable. 
The prize offered by the Royal Agricultural Society, for com- 
petition at Shrewsbury, for cutting and elevating machines will 
probably bring forward some other adaptations of the chaff- 
cutter, and especially of those appliances which have hitherto 
been used in connection with it for the purpose of conveying 
the chopped material into sacks. The report on that compe- 
tition will doubtless be a safe guide as to the choice of a 
machine under varying circumstances ; and I therefore forbear 
