. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. ENSILAGE, 497. PLAN OF UNITED SILOS. I coat the walls with Portland cement sufBcient to insure their perfect imperme- ability. My triple silos have cost me 4176 francs, and their total capacity cubic metres, about 5 francs 14 centimes per cubic metre. I intend next year to raise the walls of my silos another metre, so that their capacity will be about a thousand cubic metres. I postpone till that time my decision as to a special cover for them. Most agricult
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. ENSILAGE, 497. PLAN OF UNITED SILOS. I coat the walls with Portland cement sufBcient to insure their perfect imperme- ability. My triple silos have cost me 4176 francs, and their total capacity cubic metres, about 5 francs 14 centimes per cubic metre. I intend next year to raise the walls of my silos another metre, so that their capacity will be about a thousand cubic metres. I postpone till that time my decision as to a special cover for them. Most agricultui'ists are more favored in the profile of their soil; many of them have a hillside in the neighborhood of their barn, in which they can open silos that will always be dry. and in some places can dispense with masonry by having solid rock. Those who wish to imitate me will have less hesitation when they know that Burtin is a particu- larly bad place for building silos, and that they can obtain the same results with much less otitlay. In making use of such large silos as these, it is necessary, of course to have a cutting-machine with a six horse power engine at least, and an elevator to raise the cut fodder over the walls of the silos. I estimate that with these instruments one silo can be filled in three days, at most, without difficulty. This rapidity is necessary in order to assure the success of the ensilage. When the elevator and cutter are combined in the same machine, the process will be ; Earth Silos. — The practice of depositing the ensilage in ti-enches dug in the ground, with a sUght covering of some material that will keep the earth from coming in direct contact with the cut fodder, followed by a covering of earth, or earth and other weights combined, is preferred by some to a well-constructed silo. The arguments offered by the adherents of this system of preserving ensilage are that it obviates the expense and labor of building silos, while the pr
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