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blocks were required to build it. Just what the cost was I do not 

 know, as my farm help worked at making the blocks, commencing in the 

 spring and working at odd times. It, perhaps, cost $275.00, but I did 

 not haul my sand and gravel more than a 100 rods. I used a No. 14 

 cutter and a 10 horse-power traction engine, and did the work of cut- 

 ting to my entire satisfaction. We worked three days and filled it about 



Figure G. Form of block used In the silo. Note the manner of reinforcing the 

 blocks by means of % iron binders. The hollow blocks require less material tlian the 

 solid ones, and will not freeze so readily. 



(Courtesy Hoard's Dairyman.) 



two-thirds full, and filled with corn grown on bottom land and very 

 heavy." 



Mr. Dunlap here touches a very important point. He got his 

 material in tlie spring and had his men work at block making when 

 they could do little else, thus saving much valuable time. Mr. Dunlap 

 also mentions having a loss of silage close to the wall because, as he 

 says, he did not cement up the inside after the blocks were laid up. 

 The inside should be well cemented to close all pores possible, then, 

 when the fodder is cut in, water in plenty should be used, especially 

 around the edges next to the walls. 



CONCRETE SILO. 



Silos are getting to be made of concrete, slushed and tamped into 

 a solid structure by means of forms. The only one in this State known 

 to the writer is that of Mr. C. J. W. Jones, Roanoke, Howard county, 

 Mo. This silo was built in the summer of 1905. It is 16 by 40 feet 

 inside measurement, it being 9 feet in the ground. He first dug the hole 

 and leveled the bottom. Then started the inside form, which was made 

 of old pieces of fence boards, stood on end around the circle and held 

 in place by thin limber boards tacked onto them. He also had a center 



