Auger Pulse Smoothing for Preservative Application System in Baler

A baler having a pickup assembly for collecting plant material and directing the plant material to a baling chamber and a preservative additive applicator configured to add a preservative additive to the plant material, the preservative additive applicator comprising:

• a hopper configured to hold a supply of preservative additive;
• an auger housing in communication with the hopper, the auger housing having an auger mounted in the auger housing and rotatable such that auger flighting on the auger delivers preservative additive from the hopper through the auger housing, the auger used to control a rate of dispensing the preservative additive from the preservative additive applicator;
• an auger distribution tube with a tube body having dispensing opening at a distal end and a proximal end, the auger distribution tube received at a housing mouth of the auger housing such that the proximal end is mounted adjacent the auger housing with the auger extending through the auger distribution tube to the distal end so as to direct the preservative additive from the auger housing toward the dispensing opening, wherein the auger distribution tube has at least one cutout positioned along a bottom portion of the auger distribution tube through which a portion of the preservative additive is dispensed from the auger distribution tube along a lateral length of the tube body.