When the silo is filled or the stack built, a layer of straw or some other dry porous substance may be spread over the surface.
In the silo the pressure of the material, when chaffed, excludes air from all but the top layer; in the case of the stack extra pressure is applied by means of planks or other weighty objects in order to prevent excessive heating.
As a rule the crop should be mown when in full flower, and deposited in the silo on the day of its cutting.
If, on the other hand, the fodder be unchaffed and loosely packed, or the silo be built gradually, oxidation proceeds more rapidly and the temperature rises; if the mass be compressed when the temperature is 140 deg.
The silo is a large, heavily built box, which is open only at the top.
In the management of a silo the farmer has undoubtedly another great bacteriological problem.
The fermentation uses up the air in the silo to a certain extent and produces a settling of the material which still further excludes air.
Our knowledge of the matter is as yet very slight, but we do know enough to understand that the successful management of a silo is dependent upon the manipulation of bacteria.
The food in such a silo may be taken out months after it is packed, and will still be found to be in good condition for food.
In the silo the green food is packed tightly, and when full all access of air is excluded, except at its surface.
The Alexander Grain Warehouse of Liverpool may be taken as a typical example of a well-equipped silo granary.
The illustration of a silo and its foundation are taken by permission from “Concrete Construction about the Home and on the Farm,” copyright 1905 by the Atlas Portland Cement Co.
This sophister being sick, and almost brought to death's door, Master Silo earnestly desired him, that after his death he would return to him and give him information concerning his state, and how it fared with him.
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo the same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.
Among these high places that of Gabaon was the chiefest, because there was the tabernacle of the testimony, which had been removed from Silo to Nobe and from Nobe to Gabaon.
And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of Benjamin.
And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.
The best time to cut corn for thesilo is just as the kernels are beginning to glaze.
Is there any danger of a barn burning from spontaneous combustion due to a silo being built in the barn?
If you do not do this you will get a silo full of manure, and possibly have a fire while it is rotting.
Will sugar beets keep in a silo and how sugar beets rank as a hog feed?
Put it through the silo cutter as soon as you can get it from the field.
Also, the deeper a silo is, the tighter the ensilage is packed and the more will be contained in a cubic foot.
I am planning to build a silo 8 feet high and 10 feet across.
Sugar beets would probably keep all right if stored in a silo just as they might if kept in any other receptacle, but it is not necessary to store beets for stock-feeding in this State.
A cow can consume four tons of silage in 180 days and more or less as you care to feed, so by figuring out how long you will probably feed, you can see the size of silo to build at once.
There is no danger of thesilo overheating and setting fire to a barn.
The silo you are intending to build is too shallow, and would hold only a very small amount of silage.
Will ensilage (corn, oats) keep well in a silo of those dimensions?
Beets put whole into a silo would not make silage.
The big red silo was the last of the old workaday world I remember seeing before my horizon contracted from a quarter of a mile to a scant ten feet.
The "neighbour to the east" turned out to be the big red barn and silo which, during the storm, had stood to me as the symbols of all that remained stable in the universe.
I started to pull in toward a sandy flat, but sheered off again when it became apparent that a slough and marsh would cut me off from the first of the houses, a place with a silo and the inevitable red barn.
The big red barn and the silostill loomed against the sky-line above the bluff, and most of the other houses and barns were still standing.
The bottom and several feet of the sides of the silo were covered with a glassy glaze.
We wanted to see the silo after the lightning had struck it.
Doesn't Farmer Green fill the silo with corn in the summer?
He doesn't store away any nice sweet corn in a silo for me.
The two consuls first appointed were Silo Popædius, a Marsian, and C.
And so much did Antigonus gain ofSilo for the bribes he gave him, that part of the army should be quartered at Lydda, in order to please Antony.
Silo also, and Ventidius, came and assisted him, being persuaded by Dellius, who was sent by Antony to assist in bringing back Herod.
At the Experimental Farm, fodder corn yielded about 18 tons of green fodder per acre, which went into the silo in good condition.
Third Campaign Capture of Venusia Fall of Silo So the third campaign in 666 began amidst favourable prospects for Rome.
Silo threw himself on the fortress designed to hold in check the Marsians, the strong Alba, Mutilus on the Latin town of Aesernia established in the heart of Samnium: in both cases they encountered the most resolute resistance.
The First Silo in Illinois "In 1881, Oatman Brothers, of Dundee, Illinois, built the first silo in the state.
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After the silo was finished, Mr. Oatman proceeded to fill it, which required thirteen days with a force of ten men, at a rate of about twenty-three tons per day.
The use of ensilage as a feed for beef and milk production has become so general in Illinois since the first silo was built in 1881 that ensilage is now one of the staple feeds.
A crop thus dealt with is stored for months; when the silo is opened the fodder is found preserved, and in a state readily taken to by cattle.
For instance, the silo should be on sidelong ground, so that the crop can be carted and tipped at a high level, and the silage taken out for use at a lower level.
Another way is to construct the silo with a movable covering of the exact size and shape of its interior.
Lou, he says he wouldn't have no silo on his place if you'd give it to him.
It happened to be the first silo on the Divide, and Alexandra's neighbors and her men were skeptical about it.
To-day Barney Flinn, the big red-headed Irishman who had been with Alexandra for five years and who was actually her foreman, though he had no such title, was grumbling about the new silo she had put up that spring.
The silo seems to be a valuable and important means to this end.
I deem it best to give a description of one way in which a double silo may be built and leave it to the reader to introduce such modifications in the plan as may best meet his particular wants and circumstances.
This cross wall should be so worked into the side walls as to hold them securely, and thus prevent the silo from spreading on the sides.
If the corn is cut and placed in the silo at once quite a force of hands is needed, but by cutting and shocking first we can avoid this double force.
Silo filling may go on for two or three weeks, or until the pits are filled, when they should be covered after standing a day or two to allow the last layer to heat.
If the contents of the silo do not heat at all, or if the temperature gets up to 160 deg.
Some kinds of stone seem to do very well, but stone walls carry off the heat and moisture too rapidly to make good silo walls.
I do not yet know which is the best method of preserving the silo from decaying.
Since the period of filling the silo will occupy several days, or even a couple of weeks, we must gauge the date of commencement to strike the best average conditions.
Silo tauntingly told him to come down and fight, if he was a great general.
The gallant Silo signalised his appointment by recovering Bovianum, but he was soon afterwards slain.
B] Since the deeper the silo the more firmly the silage packs, one silo 71 feet deep will hold as much as two silos of the same diameter and 44 feet deep.
A silo was needed that could be fed from the year round.
In the case of the round barn, the silo is most economically built inside, but in the rectangular form would cause a waste of space, and for that reason is best erected outside.
These joists are placed 2-1/2 feet apart at the outside of the barn, and half as many joists are used in the inner span, making the joists at the silo one foot apart.
The foundation for the siloextends 4 feet below the stable floor and is continued 9 inches above the floor in the feed alley.
To meet the requirements of a barn for this purpose, it became imperative to build one that was convenient for feeding and caring for the cows, economical of construction, and containing a large storage capacity in both silo and mow.
If the heat is lost through the silo wall, the fermentation is not correct.
The silo has the same relation to cattle feed as the glass fruit jar that mother uses has to the food she preserves in it.
A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm.
The main point to be remembered is that the crops to be put away in the silomust contain a certain percentage of sugar and starch in every combination.
If the silage is not packed properly and tightly, especially next to the wall, it does not settle in a compact mass and air is admitted that spoils the silage; or if the silo wall is porous this is apt to occur.
Well, we couldn't do that, so we put some more stalls on the barn and built a new silo and put in enough cows to ship 125 gallons of milk a day .
Corn was cut and shocked at this time, and the large task of filling the silo was undertaken.
A small landowner might complete the silo filling process in a day, but for large farms it often took the better part of a week.
As a result of that sermon one poor farmer built a silo and filled it with green corn in the autumn; his cows relished the new food and repaid him splendidly with milk.
One bright morning he preached a sermon on 'Leaven,' and incidentally used a silo as an illustration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crib; garner; hayloft; mousetrap; projector; silo
