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Modern Silage Methods: An Entirely New and Practical Work on Silos, Their ... Silver Manufacturing Co., Salem, Ohio Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1913 |
Modern Silage Methods: An Entirely New and Practical Work on Silos, Their ... Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1903 |
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Side 90 - ... enough so that they can be let out if it becomes necessary after the silo is filled and the strain becomes great. If when the hoops are tightened it is found that the thread at the end has not been made sufficiently long, pieces of gas pipe may be used as washers with which to take up the slack. The bottom hoop should be about six inches from the base of the silo; the second hoop should be not more than two feet from the first ; the third hoop t'wo and one-half feet from the second, the distance...
Side 99 - To find the circumference of a circle, multiply the diameter by 3.1416. To find the diameter of a circle, multiply the circumference by .31831.
Side 183 - In another experiment, conducted at the same station, where silage was compared with hay for steers, a pound of digestible matter from the corn silage produced somewhat more growth than a pound of digestible matter from timothy hay. The difference was small, however, amounting in the case of the last two periods, where the more accurate comparison is possible, to an increased growth of only 15 pounds of live weight for each ton of silage fed.
Side 75 - Bide of the roof and the inside of the lining as fast as exposed. In those, cases where the sill is made of 2x4's cut in 2-foot lengths there will be space enough left between the curved edge of the siding and sheeting and the sill for air to enter so that no holes need be bored as described above and represented in Fig.
Side 133 - Such a feed is mainly a device of a thoughtless farmer to fool his cows into believing that they have been fed when they have only been filled up.
Side 171 - Corn and roughage produce a hard, dry carcass, and corn burns out the digestive tract in the shortest possible time. With silage and roots digestion certainly must be more nearly normal and its profitable action longer continued. The tissues of the body are juicy and the whole system must be in just that condition which permits rapid fattening. While believing in a large use of silage in the preliminary stages and its continuance during most of the fattening period, I would recommend that gradually...
Side 87 - Boards nailed from these 2x4 scantling and to the 6x6 posts will form a rigid frame work across which the planks for the scaffold platform may be laid. Before the scaffolding is all in place the staves should be stood up within the iuclosure, 77. — .Sftoics <jro»« tectioni of stave silo ; the dotted lines are to allow how scaffolding may be put up.
Side 88 - ... white-pine, and yellow-pine are usually the most available. At the present time hemlock is one of the cheapest satisfactory materials which can be purchased and it is probably as good as any of the cheaper materials. It should be sound and free from loose knots. Preparation of the staves for the silo. — If the silo is to have a diameter of 12 feet or less the staves should be made of either...
Side 179 - We find, too, when the pigs are farrowed, they become more robust, and take to nursing much sooner and better than they did in winters when fed on an exclusively dry diet. We also feed it to our sheep. To sixty head we put out about six bushels of ensilage.
Side 91 - ... have been put on and tightened, the cutting out of the doors may be completed. The size of doors would better be two feet wide by about two and one-half feet long. This will allow the passing through of a large basket and will make a door of convenient size for handling. Before cutting out the doors cleats 2 inches by 3 inches and in length equal to the width of the door, should be made which will conform to the circular shape of the silo. One of these cleats should be securely bolted to the...