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THE RURAIb NEW-YORKER 
August 31, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
NOTES ON FILLING THE SILO. 
The change in silo form to a much 
deeper receptacle, and newly devised 
machinery, has not changed the import¬ 
ance of distributing and packing the 
silage in the interior of the pits, even 
when the corn is cut to one-quarter 
inch lengths, as some advocate. The 
idea is still uppermost, how to get it 
into the pits to distribute best, also the 
different things that go to make up the 
complete cornstalk, and how best get 
out the air. We think the more rapid 
and more complete the expulsion of 
air from the silage, and the earlier in 
the game, the sweeter will be the silage. 
How to fill the silo is the question, 
but this fact comes in at the start. 
“Whirlwind” filling has about supersed¬ 
ed the old pis'll of being a week putting 
100 tons of silage in a pit. It is now, 
with big machines and engines, corn 
cutters, and seven teams to draw the 
fodder, condensed into one day for even 
a 150-ton silo, and the old chain bucket 
slat carrier has given way to “blower” 
that rains down a ton of silage in four 
minutes upon the head of the man in 
the pit. Old ways of distributing the 
silage in the silo are inoperative here. 
There must be a thorough mixing of 
silage, grain, leaves, stalks, and light 
stuff, or there will be bad spots, and an 
occasional mouldy “chunk” in the si¬ 
lage when forked out. In the days of 
the old slat carrier, the best plan I 
found of equalizing the falling silage, 
was to suspend three four-bushel bags 
filled full of hay closely tied about the 
tops to a single rope, so suspended so 
that the trio of bags was exactly under 
the stream of falling silage, and the 
three-way motions of the bags pretty 
nearly distributed it, and gave, the two 
men in the pit more time to “chase the 
wall,” and see that the sides were best 
tramped, and kept highest along the 
wall. The big weight of the silage falls 
in the center and so settles faster there, 
so the outside tramping was in reality 
to keep the sides settling as fast as in 
the center and later on after the heat¬ 
ing, not pull away from the staves and 
let in a thin supply of air. 
With the big blower, the man alone 
in the pit is helpless if he is expected 
to scatter and tramp. He does well to 
keep from burial alive, and there seems 
but one thing to do, provide a distribu¬ 
tor of some kind, either of heavy can¬ 
vas tube that can be rolled up, as the 
depth of the silage increases, or a joint¬ 
ed, flexible sheet-iron affair, that a sec¬ 
tion can be quickly despatched, and the 
operator conducts it around the outside, 
or center as the needs may require, and 
then any number of men can be kept in 
safety treading down, but after all, a 
ton of fresh silage every five minutes 
is a pressure that more than equals the 
weight of many men, however large 
their feet. Their only value is to help 
expel a little more air, and possibly 
get in one more load of silage that day. 
Where an iron distributor cannot be 
had, a pretty good one can be made out 
of a 10-foot board, 16 inches wide, with 
a six-inch board nailed on each side, so 
as to make a flat trough. Suspend this 
under the carrier, attach a rope long 
enough to its lower end, so that two 
men can lead and drive it about the 
silo. This does good work, and gets 
side tramping besides, and when too 
long, it can be sawed in two and the 
walk-around continued. In filling the 
silo, some little importance is to be at¬ 
tached to the condition of the corn it¬ 
self. All agree that it should now be 
quite well along in the glazing and dent¬ 
ing stage, and the riper it is, from this 
point, the more care must be taken in 
filling, as there will be many dry leaves; 
the butts will not break up as readily, 
the grain will throw more to one side, 
and the work of distributing needs the 
best man in the pit, even a good helper 
or two, however it comes down the 
spout. The finer it is cut the better 
now. The firmer the material, the more 
air it will hold in the interstices, and 
the harder to get out. and I am begin¬ 
ning actually to believe that fairly ma¬ 
ture silage corn should be cut to the 
one-quarter inch, and then the silage 
mixed, and the finer the better any si¬ 
lage will keep, because less imprisoned 
air amongst it. 
A serious thing is that a silo will not 
hold full. It will settle pretty nearly 
a fifth, tramp as we may. Shall we re¬ 
fill is a question, for now the question 
of Summer silage is coming up as never 
before, and the more we can make a 
silo hold, the greater the prospect of 
silage for July ard August. We would 
say yes, if machinery was handy. If 
to be fed out before Christmas there 
is but a little shocked corn that is so 
dry but it will make good silage, soon 
fed, without wetting down. Cut fine, 
it will pack very solid from the mois¬ 
ture in the interior of the stalks. 
The best cover for a silo is very wet 
sawdust, the next best dry dirt, but they 
all cost in labor to get a very little 
better result than to hoist up 150 gal¬ 
lons of water, sprinkle over evenly, 
tread down and come away until the 
silage is wanted. Keep the silo shut up 
in cold weather. Shut the air out of 
the top in some way, and replace the 
side door in the silo as fast as a new 
one is opened. There is a lot of warmth 
that can be kept in a silo from its own 
escaping heat, that helps protect it from 
freezing. “There is nothing so very 
new' about this,” as the man remarked 
to the judge the fifteenth time he was 
haled before the court, but it possibly 
may.be readable just at this time of the 
lull in politics. john gould. 
Ohio. 
Stacking Silage Corn. 
I have been told by one who tried it that 
if silage corn is stacked in the field green 
with a cap of stalks well tied on it will 
keep as well as in a silo. Have your read¬ 
ers tried this, and would this method be as 
successful with sweet corn? j. p. h. 
Stoneham, Mass. 
It never has with us. To keep even 
fairly well under such conditions the 
corn should be well ripened. It should 
be more mature than when it goes into 
the silo. We find it better to let the 
stalks wilt somewhat before tieing up 
the shocks. The object is to prevent 
water from working down through the 
top of the shock. The top must be tied 
as tightly as possible and a cap put on 
to shed the water. Air will work into 
the lower part of the stack and dry it 
out. In a very wet, warm Fall there 
will be some loss *md we do not be¬ 
lieve the green stalks will equal silage, 
since the fermenting in the silo, if car¬ 
ried on right, is a part of the prepara¬ 
tion of silage as food. 
Best Use for Cornstalks. 
I have two acres of field corn. How 
should 1 dispose of stalks in order to get 
the most out of them? I have only two 
cows and one horse, and raise ears of corn 
to grind for horse. Would it be advisable 
to cut stalks, pour hot water over them 
and cover, let steam, then cool and feed 
one bushel per feed to each cow, putting 
grain feed on it same as silage? 
Massachusetts. R. f. c. 
The plan you mention of cutting and 
steaming the stalks will work fairly well. 
We would not feed all the stalks that way, 
for the cows will relish part of the fodder 
fed dry. 
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