Canned Goods for the Cattle. 
The Work of Silo Filling. 
P LANNING THE WORK.—There is possibly no 
operation in the corn belt farm that calls for 
more active management than does filling the silo. 
At best filling the silo is a hard task, and also rather 
expensive, and if the farmer does not have his 
forces well organized filling the silo becomes all the 
more expensive. It is a losing proposition to have 
own silage cutter, but rent the power to operate it. 
and our plan of filling the silo is given that somH 
beginners may perhaps avoid some of our m 
We secure some thrasher in our community to 
our thrashing with the understanding that he is to 
furnish the power to fill our silo. This having been 
settled, the corn binder is overhauled and the 
knives ground. It might be well to state here that 
the corn for the silo is cut off with the corn har¬ 
vester, except on one or two occasions when we 
'or two occasions, the work- 
tlie field to cut corn by hand 
in shock. Another step in our 
rocess is to get the silage cutter out 
with blower pipe erected. The 
silo doors are also assembled, and it is seen to that 
the door fittings and padding fit snug; the hoops 
and silo anchors are also tightened up. 
CUTTING THE CORN.—The next thing in order 
in getting ready for the silo filling is that we go to 
WEEKLY S1.00 PER YEAR. 
Yor.. I 
Silo Filling Operations on an Ohio Farm. Fig. 386. 
men, teams and machinery all engaged at high prices 
to fill the silo, and then by some little hitch on the 
part of the farmer have something go wrong and 
lose considerable time, with the men drawing pay 
for our unprepared ness. It is not our idea to have 
a lot of men and teams at silo filling time and work 
them just as hard as we can to see how much we 
can get them to do in one day, but we do want them 
all to be busy when the time comes for work. 
TOOLS AND MACHINERY-—We possess our 
have tried to cut the corn by hand, but nothing 
seems cpiite as successful for our men and selves as 
the corn binder. The hand corn-cutters are ground 
up in tip-top shape in order that they may be ready 
for use in case of emergency, and they are also used 
in opening up the field. Another reason for having 
the hand corn-cutters in readiness is that in case 
anything goes wrong with the machinery instead of 
the men idling several hours away waiting until 
everything is again put in running order, as has 
the cornfield and cut the corn off the ends, open up 
lands and then start the corn binder. We try f> 
run the corn binder about a half day in advance of 
filling, that there may be corn enough ahead to 
keep things going, and also that should anything g> 
wrong with the machine there will be no delay. 
After all this preparation the silo filling begins in 
earnest and the picture. Fig. 386, shows the silo 
filling in progress on our premises. The photograph 
was taken immediately after dinner, and only a part 
