. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. CONCRETE SILOS "Silage will keep, if properly put up in a good silo, from 3 to 4 years. Silage does not 'cook.' It ferments and it does not matter whether there is 6 inches of concrete, 2 inches of wood, x/i inch of iron, or Temperature what kind of construction is used in the walls. The heat is "1S $"aJlt,es caused by the fermentation and the loss through the walls is so small that it is entirely negligible. The temperature due to fermenting may rise to 130 to 140 deg
. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. CONCRETE SILOS "Silage will keep, if properly put up in a good silo, from 3 to 4 years. Silage does not 'cook.' It ferments and it does not matter whether there is 6 inches of concrete, 2 inches of wood, x/i inch of iron, or Temperature what kind of construction is used in the walls. The heat is "1S $"aJlt,es caused by the fermentation and the loss through the walls is so small that it is entirely negligible. The temperature due to fermenting may rise to 130 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. "A silo that is air tight will hold the moisture. There is nothing more mysterious in putting up silage than there is in putting up sauer-kraut. The confusion arises usually because agents of different kinds of silos try to make differences where none ;âHoard's Dairyman, Ft. Atkinson. A Wisconsin dairyman writes to "The Farmer" of St. Paul, asking if it is true that dairy cows fed on silage live only about five years. The answer is: fjlafe "There is positively nothing in such a report; as a matter Cows' Lives of fact, cows fed silage will generally outlive cows that are not fed silage or some other such succulent feed. "The Minnesota Experiment Station of St. Paul has a greater number of records of old cows than perhaps can be found anywhere else in the United States; that is, cows that were raised from calves and continued in the herd until they died of old age, most of them over fifteen years and profitable to the last year. These cows are fed silage the year around, from twenty to forty pounds a day. This is surely evidence that cows will live their natural life when fed on ;. Northern Wisconsin's First Monolithic Siloâ built by G. W. Graham of Roberts, with Wis- consin Farmers' Institute silo forms. (See illus- tration on page 56.) . .: . . ..-, :.â *â V'- :~ Successful Reinforced Concrete Twin Silos built
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