Archive image from page 65 of Dairy farming (1911). Dairy farming dairyfarming03mich Year: 1911 59c DAIRY FARMING to settle a day or two and then refill. After such settling there will he room for considerably more silage. Covering: for Silage. The floor and walls of the silo are air tight by construction, and where the silage has been thoroughly packed, none should spoil at these places. At the top, however, where the silage is exposed to the air and where it is less solidly packed some of it will naturally spoil. To reduce this loss of silage to a mini- mum, some cheap material that will pa
Archive image from page 65 of Dairy farming (1911). Dairy farming dairyfarming03mich Year: 1911 59c DAIRY FARMING to settle a day or two and then refill. After such settling there will he room for considerably more silage. Covering: for Silage. The floor and walls of the silo are air tight by construction, and where the silage has been thoroughly packed, none should spoil at these places. At the top, however, where the silage is exposed to the air and where it is less solidly packed some of it will naturally spoil. To reduce this loss of silage to a mini- mum, some cheap material that will pack well, such as old, wet hay, for example, should be placed on top of the silage immediately after filling, and this should be fol- lowed by a thorough wetting so as to hasten the settling and matting process. Usually a dozen barrels of water may be run over the 'top of the silage to good advantage. /LAGf: TRUCK Depth of Silage that Must Daily Be Removed from Top. Owing to the constant contact of the air with the top layer of silage, it is necessary to remove a horizontal layer of silage to a depth of not less than i} inches daily to prevent any from spoiling. If this fact is kept in mind when building a silo, its diameter can be made such as to make possible the feeding of a layer of this depth daily.
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