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ATr. Taylor: What ])ievents it from falling down in summer 

 time? 



Answer: We stall it with two small wire ropes from each 

 corner of the l^arn. Our l:arn stands here (illustrates) and from 

 the corner of the liarn here is your wire rope. That is all the 

 support. It has a good solid roof and I think the roof goes a 

 good way towards holding it in shape, ^'ou will notice here 

 there are four posts, six hy six, one at each corner, and the root 

 stands on those four posts and that holds it firmly, although I 

 iiave seen in the summer, during a strong wind, our silo shake a 

 little, hut still I haYC ncYcr been frightened for it. 



Question: Have you solid bottom in that silo? 



Answer : If y(;u are g'oing to l)uikl a silo, the foundation is th.c 

 most important. If you want your silo sixteen feet build your 

 foundation at least seventeen or seventeen and a half feet; go into 

 the oTound far enouoh so vou will feel that it is solid and lirn' ; 



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build your wall (jn the outside a good strong, solid wall ; in tlie 

 center you can lay anything- in the way of rough stone, but 

 towards the top break them up an.d make them small ; at the top 

 if you have coarse gravel, put a coating of that over it so the 

 spaces are well filled, then put on }'(:ur cement and it should be 

 almost like one solid stone. The foundation is very important. 



By some means or ether, the rats got into our silo' last winter, 

 the first time we ever had any trouble in that way, and we lost 

 more silage last winter than we ever had before until we discov- 

 ered the cause — simply the rats got in there and let the air in. 



AIJr. Cobb: If you had a six-inch jog in your wall, about 

 eight inches down, you would never have had any trouble with 

 rats. Say the foundation is twelve or fourteen inches and your 

 trench twenty inches. Then jog in from the outside six or seven 

 inches; go up another foot. I never saw a rat in the world come 

 in on that jog. 



Answer: That is quite a scheme; it's all right. 



]\Ir. Carpenthr : It seems tlie men who have remained here 

 are much interested in this subject and I believe we could spend 

 a little more time on it very profitably. 



I am a thorough advocate of the silo and I have used one 

 for years on a farm in Mimiesota. I understood the gentleman 



