Download or read book Worth and Uses of Silos and Silage written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiments with Silos and Silage written by Don G. Magruder and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is claimed that the first silo in the United States was built in Michigan in 1875. However it is only recently that their use has become general. For a long time they were considered of value only to dairymen but within the last few years many beef cattle men are feeding silage. In the last year or two there has been an enormous increase in the number of silos. The Orange Judd Farmer recently made a careful estimate of the silos in the Central Valley States and reported that the number had doubled within the last two years. They reported the total number of silos in use in Missouri on Jan 1, 1914 as 6726, the silos built during 1913 as 2679 and the average capacity as 110 tons. Several advantages of silos are generally recognized. A large % of the food value of the corn plant is in the stalk and blades. By ensiling the whole plant the stalk and blades are saved whereas with the old custom of allowing the stalks to re- main out in the shocks or standing in the field a large part of the food value was leached out. The whole plant is removed from the field as soon as it is mature, leaving the field clear for other crops. Labor can be used to the best advantage in harvesting corn for the silo as the crew can be organized to good advantage and teams and machinery used to advantage. Succulent feed is provided for seasons when it is not naturally obtainable thus supplying a very important element in the ration. The labor of feeding is lessened and made more agreeable by feeding the corn plant in the form of silage. With the increasing use of silage a number of questions have risen regarding it. For example, what is the significance of temperature? High temperatures are observed at the surface of the silage. There is a question whether this temperature prevails throughout the silage, at different depths and different distances from the wall, how the different kinds of silos and different kinds of corn affect it and what relation does it bear to the quality of the silage? There is the question of the relation of moisture and acidity in silage to its keeping and feeding qualities, and as to the % of moisture and acidity at different sections of the silage in different kinds of silos and in different kinds of corn. With a number of different kinds of silos in use there is a question as to the value of different kinds of silos for preserving silage. With a need of experimental work in silage there arises the question of the reliability of small silos for experimental purposes. Recognizing the advantage of succulent feed of filling the silo more than once during the season and the possibility of the fodder drying out before the silo can be filled the question has arisen as to the best method of making silage of dry fodder and as to its advisability. There is a question as to the claims made concerning a loss in weight in silage. In order to estimate the amount of silage remaining in a silo there is a need to know the weight per cubic foot at the various depths. With the difficulty of curing the first cutting of alfalfa clover on account of wet weather during the first cutting the question has arisen as to the possibility of ensiling these crops. The Dairy Department of the Missouri Agricultural College carried on a series of experiments with the silage during the winter of 1913-1914, with the object in view of answering these questions as far as possible.
Download or read book The Silo and Its Use written by Clarence Henry Eckles and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Construction and Use of the Silo written by Russell Rooney Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silo Profits written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Knowledge written by Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Silage Methods written by Silver Manufacturing Company and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensilage and Silos written by Ross, E.W., Co and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utilization and Construction of Pit Silos written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silos and Silage written by Henry Ian Moore and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silage and farm practice. Principles of silage making. Crops for ensilage. Handling the crop. Types of silo. The art of making silage. Feeding of silage to stock. Cost of production of silage.
Download or read book Syllabus of Illustrated Lecture on Silage and Silo Construction for the South written by Andrew McNairn Soule and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silos and Silage in Maryland written by Howard L. Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silos and Ensilage written by William Rufus Dodson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Knowledge Farm implements and construction written by Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of Methods Used to Cover Bunker Silos with Oxygen Barrier Plastic to Maintain the Nutritive Value of Silage written by Erin E. McDonell and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three experiments were performed in order to test the effect of different plastic coverings, and covering systems for use in sealing bunker silos. The objective of the first experiment was to evaluate the use of three plastic coverings using laboratory silos. Silos were filled with 14 kg of whole-plant corn forage (37% DM) to a packing density of approximately 223 kg of DM/m 3, and were covered with a) 6 mil black/white polyethylene (P0), b) a 1.10 mil thick oxygen barrier plastic (P1), or c) a 1.77 mil thick oxygen barrier plastic (P2). Buckets were sealed and stored at between 20 and 32°C. Buckets were opened at 181 d after ensiling. Laboratory silos covered with P0 tended to have more silage spoiled at the surface compared to P1 and P2. Total DM recovery from the silos tended to be lower in P0 than P1. In addition, P2 tended to have a lower concentration of acetic acid than P0. All other fermentation and chemical contents were similar among treatments. In a second experiment, two different plastic covering systems were assessed as coverings for farm-scale bunker silos. Three silos were filled with about 550 t of whole-plant corn forage. One half of each silo was sealed with one of two covering systems. The traditional system was comprised of covering the silo surface with a 6 mil polyethylene plastic that was weighted down with split tires. A modified system was comprised of a single layer of 1.77 mil oxygen barrier plastic used as sidewall plastic and as a covering on top of the silo. A protective tarpaulin was also placed over the surface plastic, and was weighted down with gravel bags along the length of the sidewall and at the seams. Corn silage was sampled at 5 months post-ensiling. In silos covered with the traditional system, water from rain and melting snow was able to infiltrate into the silage mass closest to wall resulting in poor quality silage. Silage sampled further from the wall was generally of better quality than silage nearer the wall. Silage quality was maintained and not affected by water in silos covered with the modified system. Silage sampled furthest from the wall (not affected by water) had some indices of nutritive value and fermentation end products that were better than silage stored under the traditional plastic. In a third experiment, the same three bunker silos were used to evaluate the use of a thicker 5 mil oxygen barrier plastic (weighted down with gravel bags but not requiring the use of a protective tarp) to normal 6 mil plastic (weighted down with split tires). Side wall plastic was used in both treatments. After 6 months of ensiling, samples were taken at the midpoint of each treatment. In general there was no major advantage in using oxygen barrier plastic in this experiment perhaps because the use of gravel bags as a weighting method was not effective in keeping the plastic flush against the silo surface. This allowed for air to penetrate the plastic through points where animals had caused some damage, resulting in the plastic to balloon in certain sections of the silo. The thicker oxygen barrier plastic did not appear to cling as tightly to the surface of the silage as the thinner oxygen barrier plastic did in the first field experiment, making it necessary to implement a better weighting method for this type of plastic in future experiments.
Download or read book Modern Silage Methods written by Silver Manufacturing Co., Salem, Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
