![]() She is more time consuming than the 10 month old. This weekend was our 13 year old, Brooke's turn to visit. On Friday evenings on the way home, I have been picking up one grandchild to spend the weekend with us. That boy keeps "Granny the Nanny" hopping! to be Tristan's Nanny on Thursday and Friday while Grace is at pre-school. She has two small children, Gracie (3 years) and Tristan (10 months) and I drive two hours to her house on Wednesday p.m. I can spend the day running errands on the way to my daughter's house. The car is packed with all the items that I gathered for my flea market booth and priced this week so I am ready for my trip into town on Wednesday. I don't think a lot of modern women still have a surplus of buttons but you never know when you might need one, right? There is absolutely no value in it except for the button memories one from my graduation dress, a maternity dress, my daughter's baby dress and once in a while when I dig really deep down, I will find something like one of my daughter's old diaper pins. One of the things that I really wanted when she died was her button box. Whenever a piece of clothing was headed to the rag bag, Mom would wring the buttons off and throw them in the tin. You could bury your hands in the buttons and come up with big fistfuls of them. Her button box was a big tin with a lid that clamped down tight and was hard to open. I would make up games such as trying to see how many of the same kind of button I could find. It was fun to look for unusual buttons such as the little tiny buttons off of baby clothes or buttons with rhinestones from fancy dresses. Bottom-unloading silos have a screw-type unloader, which moves silage into a central hopper, from which it is conveyed further by belt or screw conveyor.As a child, sometimes on rainy days when my mother was sewing, she would let me play in her button box. Silage falls into a feeding cart placed at the bottom of the chute, or onto a conveyor belt for distribution to livestock. Top-unloading silos have a rotating scraper that sweeps silage through openings in the wall into a chute mounted on the side. Special unloading equipment is mounted inside. The forage consolidates under its own weight. These are referred to as cast-in-place silos.įorage is blown into the top via a pipe mounted on the silo's side. Another construction method is by placing concrete inside a form. Some concrete silos, called stave silos, are built from concrete staves, 30 cm wide by 75 cm high concrete slabs that are stacked up into a cylindrical wall and held together with steel hoops, very much like a wooden wine barrel. Tower silos are 15-30 m high cylindrical concrete or steel structures, usually closed with a domed roof. The size of the silo will depend on the size of the herd to be fed. ![]() Unloading is by front-end loader or by allowing cattle to feed directly from the exposed face of the silage. Forage is dumped within the walled area, compacted by tractor, covered with polyethylene sheets and weighed down with old tires. They are found more often on large beef farms.īunker silos are paved areas surrounded on 3 sides by concrete or 3-5 m high concrete or timber walls. Bunker silos, sometimes called horizontal silos, are cheaper to build than tower silos but allow little automation and have the greatest feed loss by oxidation. The bottom-unloading tower silo allows a greater degree of automation but is somewhat more expensive to build. With well-ensiled material in anaerobic storage, the quality and palatability of the feed is maintained until the material is exposed to oxygen, which causes silage to deteriorate quickly. Under normal conditions, silage-producing microbial fermentation produces lactic and acetic acids until acidity is such that growth of all micro-organisms stops (after 2-3 weeks). High-moisture grains (eg, whole-shelled, ground-shelled and ground ear corns and barley) go through the same fermentation process as silage but contain far less water. ![]() ![]() Whole-plant corn silage (30-35% dry matter) is made by chopping the entire plant finely (1-2 cm) haylage is silage composed of wilted grass or alfalfa dried to 35-50% dry matter, again chopped finely. Silage is formed by microbial fermentation of plant material under anaerobic (oxygen-free) or near-anaerobic conditions. Silos are a common fixture in livestock and mixed-farming operations across Canada. Farm silos are storage structures for silages and high-moisture grains used for livestock feeds. ![]()
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