. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 640. Use of conveyor in making silage. Fig. 641. Dse of the conveyor in filling an outside silo. B27 harvester, on the whole, is exceedingly satisfactory in its operation. By a system of carrying chains and devices for straightening up the stalks, it is able to cut and bind corn even when it is badly lodged and tangled. The advantage lies not only in the labor saved over cutting with corn-knives, but to an even greater extent in the subsequent loading on wagons and feeding into the cutter. The machinery for cutting silage and elevatin
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 640. Use of conveyor in making silage. Fig. 641. Dse of the conveyor in filling an outside silo. B27 harvester, on the whole, is exceedingly satisfactory in its operation. By a system of carrying chains and devices for straightening up the stalks, it is able to cut and bind corn even when it is badly lodged and tangled. The advantage lies not only in the labor saved over cutting with corn-knives, but to an even greater extent in the subsequent loading on wagons and feeding into the cutter. The machinery for cutting silage and elevating it into the silo is of two distinct types. In one, the cut material is elevated by means of a running elevator of sprocket chains, bearing wooden slats or sheet-iron buck- ets, which carry the corn away from the knives. The other type is known as the blower or pneu- matic elevator, in which the cut forage is blown into the silo through a sheet-iron pipe by a very powerful blast of air, generated by a fan or by blades fastened to the head to which the knives are bolted. The first type is the earlier one. Its disadvantage is that to set up and adjust the slat carrier for a tall silo is rather diffi- cult. Its advantage lies in the fact that it can be operated with much less power and at greatly varying speeds. A six or eight horse- power engine will generally be ample. The advantage of the blower type lies in the fact that it is very much more quickly set up, and that the corn can be taken care of in the silo more easily, as it is a more uniform mixture of the leaves and heavier parts of the plant. Its disadvantage is that very much more power is required and the speed must not fall below a certain minimum or the machine will clog. The blower type is steadily becoming the more popular in silo districts. Place of silage in the ration. The question of feeding silage belongs more especially to the domain of animal nutrition. However, it may be said in passing that about. Please no
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