THE SILAGE STACK: METHODS OF BUILDING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 3

THE SILAGE STACK: METHODS OF BUILDING.

! The main policy in stack building is simple. Let the ensilage stuck be built up to a height at which it becorues difficulc to unload from the waggons, and tin nbe left, and another s'aolc eoinmnnced. When that is done there is a two fold advantage—fermentation itarts and the stack rapidly sinks. When it is found advisable to check fermentation, building can be resumed at a much lower level, and that reduces the labour and also tends to make the resulting silage more even in quality. It is important that before resuming, any of the mouldy part on top should beremoved. Building without a break would have a very unsatisfactory result for there would be sour silage at the bottein, gi-adually changing to very swer-t at the top, ani the variation in the flavour is a matter to guard against for it would not have by any means a beneficial effect on the cattle who feed from it. Ensilage in an actual silo of uniform flavour. Mr Ballard, an English stock owner, found the wastage of stack ensilage was nearly 25 per cent-, but even so it was often cheaper than silo. On Mr Ballard's farm over 100 oattle received a ration of silage, and throve upon it, and seven bullocks which received a ration at night of ensilage showed a gain of 2£lb per head per day on 64 days.