Silos and Silage

[flyingcow]

When the cows eat all that corn, they fill one of these up.

 

[tcreeley]

The milk truck came around 9-10 every morning, backing down a long driveway to the milkroom. My mother was tired of tire tracks in the lawn and started lining the drive way with the largest rough edged rocks she could find.
Along with this drama, it was my job to watch the driver when he measured the milk in the tank to make sure that he didn't short us a couple hundred pounds! (The paranoid suspicion was that he'd do this at a bunch of farms and make some extra money.) I used to listen for the truck coming up the dirt road (2-3 cars a day was a busy day!) and drop everything to be there in time, or I'd have to listen to my stepfather later!....But mostly my stepfather got along with the driver!
Here are two pictures of the milk truck and our cow Pat, that produced enough milk in a year to fill the truck!

 

[Taylortractornut]

I had a good friend that i worked with one time. He was 25 years older than me and grew up farming. He wanted to enrich his gardenspot. He asked me if I cared to run the track loader for him digging out the material. He didnt tell me it was an old silage pit. It was full when the farmer retired in 90 and that was 2001. My friend was driving the truck. I emptied the whole pit and it was a beautiful compost as I ever saw but at the very bottom stunk to high heaven. We hauled 200 yards of this stuff to my friends garden. Then we borrower a big CMI soil mixer thats basically a huge tiller.