Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-18

cost, put II at four hundred and twenty
FIVE dollars.
Hon. William w. Grout of Barton built
one last year on his home farm in Kirby.
His is also built in the cellar Of his large
barn, is sixty-two feet long. twelve feet
wide and fifteen feet deep, and divided by
partition wall into two portions-one
forty-four and the other eighteen feet long.
The walls are oil concrete. ten inches thick.
and about nine feet are under ground and
six above. He used for the walls ninety
six barrels of cement. costing two dollars
per barrel. and gave the cost as about
four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Planks were laid on the ensilage, the large
one only being filed. and about thirty to
thirty five tons of stones piled on for pres
sure. This is the way all have done ex-
cept Mr.. Pierce, before noted.
Capt. G. Morton of Essex built his of
stone not laid in cement, but cemented
inside. The walls were not even and
smooth as they shonld be; but he, like all
the rest, labored under difficulties from
haste and lack of experience, but he is
enthusiastic in its praise.
Mr.. Pierce used screws for securing the
pressure, which makes some extra first
cost, but saves handling over twenty to
forty tons of stone twice every filling.
If we were to suggest any Improvement
it would be the filling of barrels with sand
or stones, as these could be more easily
and readily handled.
These silos named comprise all in Yer
mont, we believe.
Messrs. Buckley of Port Jervis, N. Y,
have sio twenty five by twenty-three
feet, and fifteen feet deep, which is divided
by two feet wall into equal parts. This
is in a barn cellar, nearly the whole depth
is excavated, and cost about three hundred
dollars-labor two hundred and eight
dollars, forty four cents, and lime and
cement, seventy eight dollars.
DR.. William II. Tanner, South Armenia,
N. Y, has one thirty five feet long, fifteen
feet wide and twenty feet deep, which he
says can be built for three hundred dollars.
Mr.. John G. Walcott, Peabody, Mass,
has one forty-three by fifteen feet, and
sixteen feet deep, walled with stone laid
in cement, and cost about six hundred
dollars.
From these data it may be safely esti-
mated that sios can be built for from one
dollar fifty cents to two dollars per ton of
capacity, varied of course by location,
cost of material and labor, size of silo, etc,
the larger silo being built relatively
cheaper for the capacity than the smaller
one.
COST OF ENs1LAGING THE FODDER
is variouly estimated. Gen. Grout said
his rost him dollar ton to cut, haul to
the barn, cut, tread into silo, covering and
all complete, but can be done cheaper.
Mr.. Hazen thinks fifty to seventy five
cents per ton will cover the cost the latter
figure the outside. But MIR. Hazen put
machinery to use. He cuts his corn with
a moving machine which cuts two rows
at once (plants three and one-half feet
apart), and which has frame which ro-
ceives the corn as it is cut. A man follows
and takes off the punches as fast as cut
and lays them out of the track of the next
cut, and in this way he can cut as fast as
the horses can walk. For gathering he
has two frames made which rest on Pc
ouliar carriage. The forward part is the
wheels and axle of an ordinary two-horse
wagon; the rear part are trucks thirty
inches high, from the axle of which two
reaches in V form Ohe wide end at the
rear) reach the forward wheels (on the
when the load is brought to the silo the
front of the frame is raised and the frame
load rolls off behind; the other frame is
put on and another load gone for without
delay.
DR. Tanner estimates thecost at seventy.
FIVE cents per ton.
Mr.. Burrell estimates the cost of raising
and putting in at eighty cents per ton,
Mr.. Walcott estimates the cost of ensil-
aging at one dollars per ton.
Mr.. James s. Chaffee, South Armenia,
N. Y. says it cost him two dollars per ton
to raise, gather and ensilage his crop.
! From these data it may be safe to est,
mate the cost of ensilaging the crop al
! seYenty-fve cents per ton.
WILL CATTLE EAT TIP
and is it II good healthy food7 are the
J questions one oftenest m Gets.
Prof. c. A. Groessman, in paper reat
Mt the Hampshire institute, gave the fol
, lowing conclusions after reporting analyses
he had made of ensilage and green corn
} fodder:
From the previous analytical statement
it will be quite plain that the recommended
lion of the average sample of corn enslage
representing the contents of an entire silu
cannot well be based on its highest feeding
value, pound for pound as compared with
the original green corn fodder. The in.
creased digestibility of the cellular matter
a (crude fiber) of the ensilage, and the small,
! if any, increase of the nitrogen matter is
n from physiological as well as from a
- commercial standpoint, considered to say
: the least, very doubtful compensation
d for the sugar and starch destroyed by The
g fermentation of the corn fodder In the silo
= A rational and economical feeding of the
corn ensilage, as well as Of the green corr
y fodder. except when fed for mere susie
n nance in case of full grown stock, requires
/, an addition of some stronger article o.
q food. as common hay, clover hay, OF
cakes, ETC., to meet the requirements o
q either growth or work, or Of production o
It milk or of flesh. The silo system for thu
:, preservation of fodder furnishes no excep
q ton to the rule that all our pratical curren
:. modes of preserving fodder are accompa
3" MED with loss in quantity and quality o
9 valuable plant constituents; and also tina
g any attainable higher feeding value of ou
r. fodder crops is almost invariably secured
at sacrifice of quantity. The question o
waste is simply matter of degree, wher
q comparinp existing modes of keepino fod