. Our farm and building book. . furnish allthe information necessary. And hecan supply the materials for the silo. What Size Silo is Best ? In these days of progress no farmis complete without a silo. The size of the silo must match upwith the amount of silage requiredeach day during the feeding seasonbecause enough must be fed each dayto keep it fresh. The silage shouldbe lowered evenly across, not lessthan four inches in depth in the siloper day. Twelve feet in diameter and 32 feethigh is about as small as silos arebuilt. It is better to have two smallones than one large one. A silo 12feet i
. Our farm and building book. . furnish allthe information necessary. And hecan supply the materials for the silo. What Size Silo is Best ? In these days of progress no farmis complete without a silo. The size of the silo must match upwith the amount of silage requiredeach day during the feeding seasonbecause enough must be fed each dayto keep it fresh. The silage shouldbe lowered evenly across, not lessthan four inches in depth in the siloper day. Twelve feet in diameter and 32 feethigh is about as small as silos arebuilt. It is better to have two smallones than one large one. A silo 12feet in diameter and 32 feet high willhold about 100 tons of silage. In feeding silage to dairy cows es-timate 35 or 40 pounds per day foreach cow. Silage is good for cows, sheep,horses, hogs and chickens. Corn cut when the kernels are 10 OUR FARM AND BUILDING BOOK Part of PrizeCar Load ofHerefordSteers. Brown Swiss,Dual-PurposeCattle onSedgeleyFarm,Hinsdale, 111. High grade Guernsey milker on Farm, Ft. Atkinson, THE SILO IS BEST FOR DAIRY COWS AND FOR FAT CATTLE OUR FARM AND BUILDING BOOK 11 glazed and put immediately into thesilo, will feed out about 90 per other means of saving the corncrop in comparison is terribly waste-ful. Small wooden silos are compara-tively cheap, and if rightly construct-ed are as good as any. If a farmerunderstands the business of buildingsilos, and if he understands their useand has the stock to feed, he can putconsiderable expense into silos, andmake the money bring him good in-terest on the investment. If he hasno experience it is better to startwith a small silo, with the expecta-tion of building a larger one next-year. Cost of Growing and Making Silage Conditions vary so much in differ-ent parts of the country that it is im-possible to give a correct idea of theactual cost of growing a crop of cornfor silage, but taking as a basis thereports from different states, the fol-lowing figures may be taken as a sortof average
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