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The Construction and Use of Trench Silos in Humid Regions

Coastal Plain Experiment Station, McNeill, Miss.

Abstract

The trench silo is an adaptation of the pit silo which has long been in use. It is much cheaper to construct than a pit silo, requires no materials and no skilled labor. It is simply a trench dug in the ground with a plow and slip scraper to a depth of eight or ten feet with one end sloping up on an incline so that a team or tractor can pull out of the trench with a slip full of dirt. The walls are finished smooth and nearly perpendicular with a spade and the silo is completed ready to fill. The width and length are varied according to the number of cattle to be fed. This form of silo has been used in many sections of the West where the rainfall is light, but has found no favor in the humid sections of the East.

So far as we know, the first of these trench silos east of the Mississippi River was constructed at McNeill, Miss., in 1926.