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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 20, 1015. 
Silo Notes 
Leaky Tile Silo. 
I built a tile silo this year and now 
have it filled and find that the first two 
courses of blocks which I had set in 
cement are leaking. It seems to me that 
the blocks are filled with the juice from 
the silage; above the first two courses, 
where the cement has lime mixed with it, 
the silo is perfectly water-tight. Can you 
tell me what to do about the blocks that 
leak, and also if the juice runs off will 
the silage spoil? If all the leaks are 
stopped and the juice is left in the block 
will it freeze? w. K. 
By the time this reaches you the 
"leaks” of your silo will have corrected 
themselves, for this year, at least. In 
the first place the silage must have been 
put up very immature, so much so that 
the weight of the mass above has pressed 
out the “juice,” forcing it through the 
mortar, and it is better outside than in. 
Waiting until the corn was glazed would 
have prevented this, and added quite 40 
per cent, or more to the food value of the 
silage. About the only thing you can do 
is when the silo becomes empty and dry, 
to give it a heavy inside coat of asphal- 
turn roofing paint, and “whitewash” the 
outside with pure Portland cement. 
Silage from which the juice exudes is not 
regarded as valuable as a “dry” silage, 
not that the escaping juice is a great loss 
in itself, but from the fact that the ma¬ 
terial that went into the silo was far from 
being up to standard quality, in food 
units. Freezing silage in Maryland is not 
a condition to cause any apprehension, 
juice or no juice. The thing to avoid in 
the future is putting up two-thirds grown 
corn. J. o. 
The Size of a Silo. 
I am building the cement-plastered silo 
recently described by you, and wish to 
build as high as 36 feet. Is that too 
high for 12 feet in diameter? IIow high 
can that size be safely run? Five stave 
silos have recently been blown down in 
this section; some were new. One was 
13x38, well guyed at the top. The guys 
held, but it swayed until it came down. 
Willsboro, N. Y. G. F. M. 
The capacity of a silo is limited by two 
factors—height and diameter. These two 
factors should bear a certain relation¬ 
ship to the length of time that it is de¬ 
sired to feed silage and the amount that 
is to be fed per day. It has been found 
that unless silage is fed down at a cer¬ 
tain minimum Tate there is likely to be 
trouble from molding, the mold spread¬ 
ing down through the silage faster than 
it is removed for feeding. 
This minimum will vary somewhat 
with the locality and the conditions un¬ 
der which the silage is used, approach¬ 
ing almost nothing in a silo used ex¬ 
clusively for Winter feeding, and being 
greatest where feeding is carried on 
through the warmer months of the year, 
but it is generally conceded to be around 
1 y 2 to two inches per day. Silos designed 
for Summer feeding exclusively are fre¬ 
quently made of small diameter to per¬ 
mit rapid feeding down, twin silos being 
erected if necessary to supply a sufficient 
amount without getting them too high. 
In a silo of ordinary depth (30 feet) 
it has been found that the silage will 
average about 40 pounds to the cubic 
foot. For the purpose of a rough esti¬ 
mate this can be taken as the amount 
fed per day per cow—a cow in this case 
consuming a cubic foot of packed sil¬ 
age per day. The following table, which 
has been adapted from Farmer’s Bulletin 
No. 589, was figured on this basis, and 
shows the proper diameter to use with 
the number of cows set opposite, when it 
is desired to feed at the rate of two inch¬ 
es per day. 
Number of cows nec¬ 
essary to remove 2 
inches of silage cfaily 
Diameter of silo when fed at the rate 
in feet. of 40 pounds per day. 
10 feet.13 cows 
11 feet.16 cows 
12 feet.19 cows 
13 feet.22 cows 
14 feet.25 cows 
15 feet.29 cows 
16 feet.33 cows 
After choosing the proper diameter 
from the above table the height is found 
by multiplying the number of inches that 
it has been determined to remove each 
day by the number of days that it is de¬ 
sired to feed. If the chosen rate is two 
inches per day, and it is desired to feed 
silage for a period of 180 days, 360 
inches or 30 feet of silage will be neces¬ 
sary. 
It is customary to use as great a diam¬ 
eter as conditions will permit, because 
it makes a more stable and pleasing 
structure, permits the silage to settle bet¬ 
ter, and has a smaller proportionate 
area exposed to the cold. A high silo 
is desirable, as it results in a better 
quality of silage, due to the firmer set¬ 
tling. An extremely high one should be 
avoided though, because it is so much 
more exposed to cold and racking winds, 
does not present as good an appearance 
as a lower one and costs more to fill. 
In general it might be said that the 
usual silo has a height of twice its diam¬ 
eter. It is seldom that one should be 
built with a height of more than three 
times its diameter. 
The cement-lined silo to which G. F. M. 
refers, if properly built, will be a great 
deal more rigid than a stave silo, and 
unless the section in which he lives is 
in the path of unusually severe winds 
i it would no doubt stand all right if built 
to a height of 36 feet with a diameter of 
12. Because of the increased difficulty 
of bending the siding in this type of silo 
as the diameter is made smaller, as well 
as for the other reasons set forth, I would 
prefer building to as large a diameter as 
the number of cows would permit, and 
holding the height down to a point that 
would secure practically the same ton¬ 
nage if it was not desired to increase the 
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