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Silo Gases Cause
Illness
During silo filling time, fanners should be on the alert for a poisonous gas, nitrogen dioxide. This gas causes siloTillers disease, a recognized hazard to fanners and to livestock.
Symptoms of silo-fillers disease are severe coughing and burning and choking pains in the troat and chest. Severe illness or death can result because of lung irritation or damage.
The son of a farmer who lives in the Harrisonburg vicinity was killed by nitrogen dioxide gas in a silo.
The poisonous gas seems to develope more readily in corn silage grown in hot, dry years. Under such conditions, the plant may take up more nitrates from the soils than they are able to convert into protein nitrogen. During the ensiling process, some of the excess nitrate is converted into the poisonous gas which causes silo-fillers disease.
By observing proper precautions, farmers can avoid nitrogen dioxide poisoning.
1. Run the blower for ten minutes before going into a partly filled silo.
2. Be alert to irritating odors. The gas tends to settle in the silo chute and around the base of the silo. ;
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