1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
9.51 
SILO FILLING TIME. 
That busy, rushing silo filling time is 
here; get good and ready now. In silo 
filling it is important that one has good 
suitable equipments for the work, and 
everything so arranged that little time will 
be consumed by breakdown and from using 
unsuitable tools. Look to the wagons and 
wagon tops. Low-down wagons are pretty 
good, even fiat-top racks on high wagons 
are very good. Be sure there are no holes to 
step through. The very best wagon outfit 
I have ever seen is to make a low-down 
rack on a high-wheel wagon. The picture, 
Fig. 375 shows such a wagon rack. The 
rack is built by using two 4 x G inch tim¬ 
ber, each 14 feet long. These timbers are 
hung under the axles of a high-wheeled 
wagon and rigged as follows: Under the 
rear axle, the two timbers are spread out 
to about the width of the bolster and are 
held up to the axle by long bolts that 
hook over the top of the bolster. The 
forward ends are spread about two feet 
and a block bolted between them. A long 
l.ing bolt is passed up through this for- 
waid block and up through the axle and 
bolster and secured in place by a heavy nut 
and washer. When tucse bed timbers ara 
in place a floor of two-inch plank is 
nailed down on top of them between the 
wheels, which makes the floor of the rack, 
and it is about knee high from the ground. 
The rear hound of the wagon ia fastened to 
the floor, also a short reach, from forward 
axle is fastened to the front part of the 
rack bottom. Stakes are set up at the rear 
end just forward of the wheels, and this 
end is boarded up about 3 feet high. At 
the forward end a floor is continued over 
the front wagon gear, to make standing 
room. Stakes are set up at the front end, 
but the front end should not be boarded up 
for corn hauling. 
The wagon in Fig. 375 is fitted with side¬ 
boards clear around the rack, and is used 
the year around in hauling feed, sawdust 
and other things, and saves lots of hard 
lifts. At the farm where this rack is used 
they have one of these racks for each wagon 
tramping or work in their silos, and yet 
they make perfect silage. In filling a silo 
without any tramping it is important to 
have the silage drop in the center of the 
silo all the time. It can be made to do so 
by hanging a board in front of the blower 
pipe, so that it makes the corn drop in the 
center of the silo. Even if you believe it 
necessary to tramp in your silo this Fall, 
do not go to the hard work of pitching the 
corn out to the outside ; let it pile up in the 
middle and roll out. You will get a better 
job and do it easier; better stay out in the 
field and help get the corn to the silo. To 
make a good stack, one must keep the cen¬ 
ter highest; the same applies to silo filling. 
If you keep the middle high, in settling the 
silage crowds out to the walls, while if you 
keep the silage high next to the walls and 
tramp it hard, the middle sinks down and 
pulls away from the silo walls, and many 
times causes lots of mouldy silage. This 
mouldy silage is nearly always laid to the 
fault of the silo, or something other than 
the real cause. It is almost always the 
fault of the filling and using in a wrong 
way. When the silo is nearly full it will 
be necessary to have a man at the top of 
the blower to keep it from clogging. 
After the silo is full it will save quite a 
lot of spoiled silage if one will put oju. a 
good quantity of water and then thoroughly 
tramp the whole top surface each day for 
a week or so. after the silo is filled. What¬ 
ever kind of a silo you have, keep it in a 
good state of repair, and keep it clean. 
Good silage can be made in most any kind 
of a tight structure. In building a silo, 
build it high, not less than 35 feet. Keep 
the diameter down to a size that fits your 
herd, so that about two inches of silage a 
day will be taken off the top, and you 
will not have any mouldy silage. I have 
found that feeding too slow was almost the 
whole cause of poor, mouldy silage, and that 
the feeder was generally to blame for this 
sort of trouble, and scarcely ever the silo. 
This trouble is generally blamed on the 
silo. I have seen excellent silage in a 
mighty poor sort of a silo, and then I have 
seen very badly rotted silage taken from an 
excellent silo. The first result was gained 
by proper sort of work at filling time, and 
then by feeding properly from the silo 
later. The latter result is almost always 
CART FOR SILAGE CORN. Fig. 375. 
at silo-filling time, and find them great 
labor savers, and the wagons being high- 
wheeled they can draw loads that average 
more than a ton and a half. These corn 
racks were built from measurements and 
descriptions given in King's “Physics of 
Agriculture.” Such a wagon should be 
loaded with the corn butts, all one way, 
and then to unload, drive up to the silage 
cutter at the end of the feeding table, and 
the bundles can be readily pulled off until 
the self-feed table of the cutter gets them 
and then the work is over. 
The silage cutter should be of the kind 
where the knives are bolted on the same 
wheel that blows the corn up into the silo. 
To do fast work it should be of large 
capacity, about 18-inch throat and self¬ 
feed table, and then bundles go through 
whole or double, and the work ol* feeding 
is greatly reduced. A gasoline engine is the 
most economical power, unless one can have 
electric power. It will take a 15 horse¬ 
power engine to do fast steady work with a 
large silage cutter. However. I have met 
with many cases where people used small 
engines and cutters, and got along very 
well. On the farm where the picture of 
the corn rack was made they succeed year 
after year in putting, their silage in the 
silos at a cost below 50 cents per ton. 
They grow Eureka Ensilage corn and get 
a yield of from 15 to 25 tons per acre. 
T/fist year they filled two 20x40 feet silos 
with 34 acres of corn. They have 34 acres 
this year and it is doubtful IT the two silos 
will hold it all. T found stalks in the field 
several days ago that were 13 feet long, 
and no sign of a tassel yet. Such corn 
makes great filling for a silo. In silo filling 
they use a corn binder to cut this big corn. 
The binder table is extended out about four 
feet with some slats over which a sheet of 
iron is nailed, and this extended table helps 
the machine to care for corn bundles that 
usually average 1G feet long. They use a 
heavy two-horse team on the binder, but 
do not need to cut all day to keep the 
machinery going. Two men generally stay 
in the lot and put the corn on the wagons, 
and with these low-down racks this work is 
not difficult. Three teams are generally 
used for hauling. The teamster stays on 
(he wagon and loads the corn straight and 
even, and unloads his load at the ma¬ 
chine. A silage cutter is used that simply 
cats the corn up. A 20 horse-power gaso¬ 
line traction engine has been used for sev¬ 
eral ■ years, and before that a 15 horse¬ 
power gasoline engine. One man tends the 
engine and silage cutter and does all the 
feeding. This man also tends to putting in 
the silo doors, as a usual thing, and does all 
the work that is done in the silo, 'fhat is. 
he does all the spreading and tramping that 
is done in the silo, and that is not much. 
Two or three times a day they level the 
corn down and look to the way it is drop¬ 
ping in the silo, and that is the extent of 
the work that is done in the silo. 
The silos at this farm have been filled 
year after year without any tramping, and 
one will never find better quality of silage 
than is found in these silos. So what good 
is all that time spent each Fall, tramping 
the silos of the country? I have known a 
great many silo users who do not do anv 
traced to a poor job at filling time, and 
then worse work at feeding time. In feed¬ 
ing, keep ahead of the mould, even if you 
have to throw part of the silage out in the 
yard. 
The first cost of such silos is about the 
same as the full cost of erecting a silo of 
same size of the manufactured stave silo 
type. Some of the silos in this section 
have been erected for a less cost than 
stave silos in the same locality. They are 
permanent and do not need constant atten¬ 
tion and repairs. Have a good silo, raise 
corn that yields 20 tons per acre or more; 
raise ton?, not acres. Care for a small 
piece of corn well and double the crop. 
Have a good silo well filled every year, and 
save at least one-third your feeding cost, as 
compared with dry fodders and pasture and 
expensive grains. Add Alfalfa to the silage 
and cut out most of the grain, and have 
better kept and better paying cows than by 
the old time ways. it. c. angevine. 
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Rich in the three elements essential to profitable feeding, viz: Oil, Sugar and 
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The best food in the world to use after your calves are old enough not to need 
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l>y using 
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,.230 Greenwich St„ New York 
EAST RIVER 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
215—For Sale—215 
30 large handsome cows, just fresli. 
75 cows tine in Sept, and Oct. that have records of 
9,01)0 to 11,000 lbs. of milk last year. 
90 yearlings and two-year heifers, extra nice. 
.JOHN H. WEBSTER, 
Bell Phone 568 F12, Dept. R, HORTLANO, N. Y. 
“Q U ALI T Y” 
FOR SALE—THREE HIGH BRED YOUNG JERSEY BULLS, ALL 
OUT OF REGISTER OF MERIT COWS 
I>am of No. 1, 8128.3 lbs. milk in 280 days, 
_ testing 527 lbs. 12 oz. butter 
Lam of No. 2, 11205.3 lbs. milk in 365 days, 
_ .testing 701 lbs. 12 oz. butter 
Dam of No. 3, 12840.6 lbs. milk in 365 days, 
testing 803 lbs. 8 oz. butter 
Wo also have a nice bunch of bred lieffers due to calve 
tins Fall and early Winter. Write for description 
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FLORHAM GUERNSEYS.... 
Several Yearling Hulls for sale at very moderate 
prices. Pedigrees and photographs furnished. 
J. L, HOPE Madison, New Jersey 
SHROPSHIRE -A *’ ew choicely bred from 
OL11YUI imported stork. Great bar- 
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A few Spring and Summer PIGS for sale at rea¬ 
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Without a doubt Clark’s Double Action “Cutaway” Harrow with Jointed Pole 
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