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The Dickinson Press
Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota
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Article on pit silos for silage storage, highlighting advantages like low cost, less power needed, good preservation without air or freezing; disadvantages include difficulty in extraction, solved by hoists or windlasses; references North Dakota Agricultural College publication; suitable only where water table is low.
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The pit silo has some advantages over the above ground silo as well as disadvantages. The pit silo is cheap to build. It requires less power to put silage into it than into the above ground silo. The silage keeps well in the pit silo, no air can get through the walls nor does the silage freeze.
The disadvantage of the pit silo is getting the silage out. Many have solved this in different ways, using hoists to be worked by horse power or a windlass. Some of these are illustrated in a publication on the Pit Silo issued by the Agricultural Extension Department of the North Dakota Agricultural College. It also gives information as to digging and plastering.
The pit silo can only be used where the water table is lower than the bottom of the silo.
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The pit silo offers advantages over above-ground silos: cheap to build, requires less power to fill, silage keeps well without air penetration or freezing. Disadvantages: difficult to extract silage, addressed by hoists powered by horses or windlasses, as illustrated in a North Dakota Agricultural College publication on digging and plastering. Usable only where water table is below silo bottom.