The silos for the spent beets should be excavated from the ground and the trucks be constructed to tip their contents into these pits.
A very convenient method of carrying beets from the silos to the washing machine is by means of a narrow canal of rapidly flowing water, flowing between the silos and entering the washing machines.
The beets from the beet silos are carried to suitable washing machines, A, see Chapter VII, in which they are thoroughly cleaned of dirt and gravel.
And I do admire the Scandinavian farmers down there so: their big red barns and silos and milking-machines and everything.
At first you might have thought Silos merely a peddler, but if you knew your Thoreau you would presently begin to perceive that peddling was the paltry price he paid for liberty.
Mr. Oatman stated that some agricultural paper in Chicago had been agitating the building of silos in Illinois and had tried to induce him to build one.
It is desirable to choose the site for the silos so that the fodder is preserved somewhere near the place of consumption; also to lay out the works so that as little handling as possible is required.
Science and research have helped, until now we can produce silos that will keep this green fodder in a sweet and succulent state until the owner is ready to use it.
Silos have been used since very early times in one form or the other, and probably the first we have ever heard of are traceable back in ancient history to the Syrians, who had pits in the ground for the storage of animal feed.
In order to overcome these defects we soon began to see silos erected above ground.
The chamber Y containing silos for preservation of grain must have been the furthest extremity.
Not only are there chambers for the former, but also mangers for cattle, and silos to contain the fodder; and there are nooks for pigeons in an adjoining cave.
Moreover within, sunk in the floor, are silos for the storage of grain, the soil often somewhat higher about their orifices than elsewhere, and sometimes provided with covers.
There are numerous silos in the floor, and fragments of coarse grey pottery turned on the wheel have been found there.
It is 6 feet 3 inches high, and the floor is higher above the mouth of the silos than elsewhere.
The fact that there was enough concentrate on hand to last a world for a hundred years made no difference at all to these automatics; a crew of erector-mechs was building new silos as fast as existing ones were being filled.
Storage silos by the hundreds were built and were filled.
The silos were immensely larger--thirty feet in diameter and towering two hundred feet into the air.
Halfway up the valley the character of the places seemed to change, the houses had the look of needing paint, the weeds were taller along the fences, and there were no silos nor tractors to be seen.
Again, a cargo may be discharged either into silos or upon the floors, and simultaneously the grain may be cleaned.
Ferro-concrete silos have been built on both the Monier and the Hennebique systems.
Circular tank silos have not been extensively adopted in Great Britain, but a typical silo tank installation exists at the Walmsley & Smith flour mills which stand beside the Devonshire dock at Barrow-in-Furness.
The silos are normally fed by a fleet of twenty-six of Philip's patent self-discharging lighters.
The transit silos of the London Grain Elevator Company, also at the Victoria docks, consist of four complete and independent installations standing on three tongues of land which project into the water (figs.
Iron silos of circular form are used to some extent in Great Britain, but are more common in North and South America.
It is said that grain loaded at Tilbury into these lighters can be delivered from the transit silos to railway trucks or barges in about six hours.
With brick silos collapses through pressure of the stored material are not unknown.
Bricks and cement are good materials for constructing silos of hexagonal form, but necessitate deep foundations and substantial walls.
The silosare shaped like a cylinder resting on a truncated cone, and surmounted by the same figure.
A ship may be unloaded intosilos or into the granary floors, and may simultaneously be loaded either from silos or floors with different kinds of grain.
No conveyors serve the silo bins, as the elevators which rise above the tops of the siloscan feed any one of them by gravity.
Wood silos are usually square, made of flat strips of wood nailed one on top of the other, and so overlapping each other at the corners that alternately a longitudinal and a transverse batten extends past the corner.
The Data, Information and Working Drawings given in this book will enable the Concrete Builder to successfully construct any of the most practical types of Concrete Silos in use to-day BY A.
The first crop of alfalfa, shot through with foxtails, must be cut without delay and fed into the silos before the beards of the interloping growth could harden.
He looks at such things as silos and milking-machines and tractors and fences even as the old Indians must have looked at the inroads of the white men.
On the other hand, in large silos with poor ventilation, the sugar loss frequently represents four to six per cent.
It is recommended to construct silos of two types; one which is to be opened before first frost, the other where beets remain for several months and are protected against excessive cold.
Among other things, he got acquainted with farms and farmers, and, in New York State, once picked berries for a week with a Dutch farmer who was experimenting with one of the first siloserected in the United States.
A case in point occurred last season; while we were busy filling our silosat the experimental farm I was called to the telephone by a young farmer living some thirty miles away who asked several questions about temperatures.
Stone buildings can be converted into good silos by furring out and double boarding on the inside.
This brings me to a point in the discussion of considerable interest to many persons who desire to have silos but dread the experience and expense of machinery.
Mr. Hiram Smith of this State, who has large silos and uses ensilage extensively, holds that it is not inconvenient to have the silo located a few rods from the feeding barn.
Silos built of wood or made by changing over the bays of barns are the proper structures, judging from our present knowledge, for the Northern States; our friends at the South may find stacking successful.
I have known silos in which I could detect no faulty handling of the crop that would not heat to 120 deg.
Silos are like houses, no two individuals can agree upon the same plan; for this reason I approach this branch of the subject with no expectation of pleasing all or of giving directions for making a perfect structure.
B] These are the sizes on which the figures for cost of silos of the Gurler type, given in Tables 2A and 2B, were used.
Two silos of such small diameter would not only be costly, but difficult to make stand, unless built of concrete.
As this small diameter was a necessity, it would require two silos 33 feet deep to supply enough silage.
In order that a deep enough layer of silage can be fed off each day during the summer to avoid waste, it is evident that to store 250 tons of silage outside the barn, two silos would be required.
Therefore, in comparing a round dairy barn with a rectangular dairy barn, silos should be included.
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 casket exists at the Church of Santo Domingo de Silos (province of Burgos), which merits a special mention on account of what has remained to us of the inscription.
One was made by the order of Saint Domingo de Silos [A.
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