. Soiling crops and the silo; how to cultivate and harvest the crops; how to build and fill the silo; and how to use silage. a b Fig 33. Door of Stave Silo a, View of outside of door; h, side view of door. silage when settling will then assist in the exclusionof the air at the doors just in proportion to the extentto which the said pressure exists. To aid furtherin such exclusion of air, a strip of tarred papershould be tacked on each of the beveled edges ofthe door. Before sawing out the door, two cleatsshould be bolted across the staves on the are shown in the door as represent
. Soiling crops and the silo; how to cultivate and harvest the crops; how to build and fill the silo; and how to use silage. a b Fig 33. Door of Stave Silo a, View of outside of door; h, side view of door. silage when settling will then assist in the exclusionof the air at the doors just in proportion to the extentto which the said pressure exists. To aid furtherin such exclusion of air, a strip of tarred papershould be tacked on each of the beveled edges ofthe door. Before sawing out the door, two cleatsshould be bolted across the staves on the are shown in the door as represented in The end of the bolt which receives the burr BUILDING THE SILO. 307 should be outward, and the heads of the same coun-tersunk on the inside. The doors should be carefullynumbered on the outside so that each will be used. Fig 34. View of Stave Silo With shute, ladder and hand-cart only in its proper place, or they may be so fastenedwith chains to the outer wall as to hang suspendedwhen for the time being they are not in use. The Shute,—In a large majority of instances 308 SOILING CROPS AND THE SILO. it will be advantageous to make a shute down whichthe silage falls when it is thrown out at any of thedoors. The shute is simply a box with three sides,extending upward from below, the lower door ofthe silo and covering the doors. The proper sizewill be about two feet square. A ladder shouldextend upward on one side of the shute and insideof it on which the person climbs whengoing into orcoming out of the silo. Usually a floor is put intothe shute and from this the silage slides outwardinto a cart placed under the same to receive the silo stands outside the stable and near tothe same, the shute should come down into thepassagev.^ay, as shown in Fig. 34. This passage-way between the silo and the bu
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