. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 632. A harvest of 10,000 bushels of corn, on farm of H. B. Woodbury near Cawker City. Kansas. The product of 200 acres. fermentation is so great that many of the germs of decay are killed, and partly to the oxygen, which is entangled in the mass, being replaced by the carbonic acid gas that is formed and that acts as a bar to further changes. Fig. 633. Old-fashioned rail corn-cribs. other times it has suffered from over-zealous friends. The idea has been prominently before the agricultural world for twenty-five years, and ensiling may
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 632. A harvest of 10,000 bushels of corn, on farm of H. B. Woodbury near Cawker City. Kansas. The product of 200 acres. fermentation is so great that many of the germs of decay are killed, and partly to the oxygen, which is entangled in the mass, being replaced by the carbonic acid gas that is formed and that acts as a bar to further changes. Fig. 633. Old-fashioned rail corn-cribs. other times it has suffered from over-zealous friends. The idea has been prominently before the agricultural world for twenty-five years, and ensiling may now be said to have become a settled practice in all dairy-farming, and to a less extent in beef- and sheep-feeding operations. Its highest development has been reached in those dairy com- munities which lie in the northern part of the corn-belt. Corn as a silage crop. The corn plant, with its large, solid, succulent stalks which do not air-dry easily but which ensile very readily, is preeminently the silage plant, and throughout the great dairy sections of the North most of the corn is handled through the silo. At one time or another ensiling has been recommended as a method of handling all the following crops -. Corn, clovers, alfalfa, meadow , cowpeas, soybeans, Canada field-peas, sorghum, sunflower, millet, and, in fact, all crops used for forage, apple pomace, beet pulp, and canning-house refuse of various kinds. These have been ensiled with more or less success, but never with advantage over corn. Sometimes some of them are used to advan- tage with corn, as the last cutting of alfalfa. But corn has been and is likely to continue to be the peer among crops for the 3ilo. It loses somewhat in feeding value when put in the silo, but with proper care the loss need be very little,— 4 to 8 per cent of the dry matter. In any event, it is less than when the fodder is cured in the field. Silo construction. It is of interest in this connection to mention briefly the evolu
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