The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-02-19
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SlLOS AND ENSILAGE.


| Janncy, OF this county, lately visited Mont
gomery county, Md, where they saw the siC
of Mr.. Stabler, and carefully observed The
manner in which it is built. A Absorption OF
it may be OF use in calling the attention oil
our farmers to this new and well-tcsted meth.
cd of increasing the value of farm products
Silos are no longer an experiment but have
been tried with success by careful, wide
| awake farmers.
Mr., Stabler having Il bank barn, proceeded
on one side of this barn 10 dig u hole or pit
in the ground ten feet wide, lG feet long and
ten feet deep, close up against tue barn wall.
| This pit when dug out was three feet deeper
| than the ground floor of his barn. An open
| ing was cut through the wall, allowing COM
municaton from the stable to the sio. This
door opened into the slo three feet above its
bottom, an inclined plane consisting Of earth
In the bottom of silo extended from the
door-sill into the silo, three or four feet.
The opposite end and two sides of the silo
were walled up by means of posts set up
every or 4 feet, with boards nailed hori-
zontaly to these posts.
Now we find the sio with stone wall on
one end and boards on the other end and two
sides, and only solid, packed Garth in the bot
tom.
Above the surface of the ground frame 2
fastened to posts set in the ground. On this
frame three feet TO the square was built,
the whole being covered with a comb roof of
boards.
We have now Il pit 10 feet wide, 1G feet
long 10 feet deep and between the sides and
end of this pit, and the frame of the building
which covers it, q shclf2 feet wide, on which
is placed the stone necessary to weight the
onsilage down, when the green food is cut
and the silo is full to the top. Planks one
foot wide each, and all exactly one length, 10
feet, are put in place, one close TO the other,
on top of the cut fodder or other provendcr,
until the entire slo is covered, when they
are weighted down by stone.
The stone when put on are about from
foot to Is inches in depth. The enslage will
settle about IS to 20 inches. When wanted
for use one plank at a time is removed, the
ensilage being cut down or pulled out by the
fork, the entire depth of the Sio, before
another plank is removed. The door open
ing into the stable from the silo allows easy
access to and from said silo.
The silo visited was about three fourths
full at the time of our visit, the other fourth
having been used.
The ensiage was of a yellowish color,
slightly sour when first taken out, but by
pulling enough down to feed on, n few hours
i
before wanted, 'he sourhess mostly leaves 1t,
ana I l! Is readily eaten py STOCK,
,,,i. n's $40 was i.leu WIN lelu corn ioaaer;
=" I'm tl''s chG III l, view 'hc corn was planted
IN driIis, much lhicKer IN lhe row ana the
rows sotlietninS Closer ''i"h II piahteu lor
iie BIC, crops.
inc crop IS cultivated as other helo crops
only not tnIhheu out
Mheh 'lc corn Is IN miiky STATE ana
WINE Ihe iouuer Is YET green II is all cut ana
haIieo 10 me sllo' "here tne corn me louder
ana AL arc CUT up ,ogether INTO nan men
lehg'hs ana oeposl'e e IN the $40. Dnrlhgali
thg G .llhe IL IS pelng hIiea !! is wei lfamped.
Inc crop Is now secured, ana II properly
done ana a. !he proper llme' WIN yielu sup
ply Oh nutritious 1000, surprising that OF airy
ieeu, ana Is eHcee9lngiy S"iuaole whch ied III
connection WIN ory ieea; one acre Oh corn rn
plah'ea as ABOVE VIII yleI9 from 10 70 ~
TONS OF green ioou, ana slio OF me size aOoVe
me e VIII holu 20 IONS o. green ioader.
ABOUT inches ensilage on Top, next 10 the