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dozen cluift' bags, and then sewing tliem together, it can be tacked to the 

 top end of elevator, and an even distribution of chaff ^\\\ be obtained. 

 One man holding the bottom of chute can walk round inside the silo 

 and tramp the silage and distribute with the one operation. Without 

 the chute all the heavy stuff will fall in one heap, and the flag will blow 

 to the edges, which has been the main cause of waste on the outer edge 



Fig. 5. — Erecting top section of Silo. (See laths for holding uprights till 

 bands are placed in position.) 



of silos. The ground end of elevator is rounded off with galvanized 

 sheet-iron, allowing ^-in. room for the slats to move round the sprocket 

 wheel when the dead-eye bearings are fixed. The line of this iron will 

 be described with a radius of 7f in. from the centre of the sprocket 

 wheel. The cover of the elevator is left off about 5 feet from the 



