Excerpt from Syllabus of Illustrated Lecture on Silage and Silo Construction for the South The first silos were simply pits in the ground in which the fodder was thrown uncut. The fodder was well tramped as placed in the pits, and when the pits were full the whole was covered with boards and a layer of earth. This method of preserving green food was practiced quite commonly throughout northern Europe at an early date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.