DODGING A DIFFICULTY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 3

DODGING A DIFFICULTY.

SILAGE WITHOUT A SILO. ,-The initial expenses of, building a silo seemi 1 to, dexer-many from making silage as a; reserve- feed supply s , to.' tide : their herd over - : droughts.Reaßsing, : this : and '.the; need of, a ; £ -.t- reserve of succulent feed,, sonic''experimenters have: introduced 'a' method ; making silagewithout,a silo, by;stacking;the green ;fodder '. and'weighing it.down: A writer in "Hoard's. : Dairyman " who recently had ail Opportunity at-, the ; ' State Farm near' Waega-Wagga- in ,£lew South Wales to examine closely a stack of silagc, both old and new, ;put'up in'this, way, stilus describe? the process :r-r - • ••., :. 1 A very convenient, device is used to secure the necessary .pressure; ,Tho " stack ■ is' built on ■ a .rack which .'serVe's as a', floor it from the . is. shaped likq'an ordinary hayistack, arid,.if.not under, roof, a thatched coyoring of. suitable grass ' or'straw is cables'are \ finally passed'oyer tho stack and fastened to ' round poles .on cither , side,' which : iii turn . arc anchored to : the rack on" the ground in Bticli a.'way that, with .the. polo usedas. a wiiicil.iss, the cables can be wound upon it and thus tightened down to any extent desired. A stack of oat .silage thus prepared, and over a year old, from which tlioy were feeding a fino dairy, herd: at .the time, of - our visit; was in"a sweet and, very, satisfactory condition, with only'from-3 to 6'inches on the outside of the stack spoiled through the exposure to the weather., Green'maize was also ..used for silage without previously cutting it fine. i i