enough for thirty head of cows or steers, from November 15th 
to April 15th. 
The labor of filling the silo will always remain the prin¬ 
cipal objection to its use. Corn can be put in the silo whole, 
but the cost of filling the silo with whole corn is no less than 
with cut, while the feeding out of the cut, is so much less 
work, and it is eaten so much more readily by the cattle, that 
most corn is run through a fodder cutter before it is put in 
the silo. We cut the corn last fall into quarter inch lengths. 
Most farmers could hire the use of a threshing engine for 
power to run the cutter, but they would have to buy the 
cutter. This would represent an outlay of $50 to $75, or as 
much as the cost of the silo. 
If all the labor and teams are hired, the cost of harvest¬ 
ing corn, cutting it in small pieces, and packing in the silo is 
about 65 cents per ton. 
The ensilage put in the College silo last fall is now being 
fed out, and proves to have kept very well. When the silo 
was full it was covered with a small amount of straw and 
then the dirt from the sides thrown onto the top to form a 
layer six inches thick. Both the straw and the dirt weie 
soaked with water to make them pack tighter. When the 
silo was opened, from two to three inches of ensilage were 
found to be spoiled, under the straw and in the coiners, foi a 
little greater depth. Below this the ensilage has kept 
remarkably well. No eastern silo with double walls of 
matched lumber could produce any better. The average 
losses in silos are about twenty to twenty-five percent, of the 
weight of the corn put in, while so far, in our feeding, the 
losses have been but a little more than ten per cent. 
THE LOSS OP FODDER CORN IN DRYING. 
It is believed by most farmers that, in the dry climate of 
Colorado, fodder corn, where cut and shocked in good shape, 
cures without loss of feeding value, and that the loss of 
weight that occurs is merely due to the drying out of the 
water. A test of this question was made in the fall of lBJd, 
and the results obtained seemed to indicate that fully a thud 
of the feeding value was lost in the curing. This result was 
so surprising, that the figures were not published, feanng 
that some error had crept in, though we could not see where 
there was the possibility 7 of a mistake. 
