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the silage before the joints had swelled tight enough to prevent It, and in 

 seven years decay had gone so faf that I had to line that up with the 

 paper inside. At the end of ten years I had to throw the whole thing out 

 as worthless. I ought to have done it two years before I did. I lost 

 enough silage to pay for it. 



Mr. Drischel: Was that a square or round silo? 



Mr. Gurler: It was a square; it did not malce much diflt'erence. If I 

 was going to build a wooden silo, I would not put a double wall inside. 

 If you are going to build a silo, wooden silo, I mean, build a single wall 

 and put good lumber in it. 



Mr. Burnside: Do you remember the silos built by Frof. King, iu 

 Wisconsin? He had these wooden silos lined with galvanized iron. What 

 do you think of that? 



Mr. Gurler: I would expect it to last for a time, but how about the 

 expense of it? 



Mr. Burnside: Oh, it is expensive. * 



Mr. Gurler: My idea would be that you could not afford to do it. 

 There is one point, I find. If your corn is too ripe, put water on it. Don't 

 be afraid; there is not any danger. Be sure you have enough. If you don't 

 you are in trouble. 



Now, this question of construction. After I had that trouble with my 

 silos rotting out, I put my head to work to get something that would not 

 rot, and the outcome of it was I built three circular silos twenty feet in 

 diameter and thirty-eight feet deep and cemented it inside with Portland 

 cement the same as you would cement cisterns, and I have used this. 

 The first I built I am emptying for the sixth time, and I can't see but what 

 they are just as perfect as they ever were. I had a man go inside a year 

 ago and examine all around for small cracks, but I have had none of them, 

 except one time when we did not have a top on it and the wind sprung- 

 it a little, but we took cement and cemented those places perfectly tight, 

 and it has been all right ever since. I am confident I am right about that. 

 I had made a section of that silo and I brought it along with me, and 

 here it is. You could use the patent lath if you could spring it. I find I 

 have to have a circle twenty-five feet in diameter or we can't spring it. 

 You take half-inch lumber and then make a lath like that, edges beveled. 



The Secretary: What is the width apart of your studding? 



Mr. Gurler: I put them twelve inches; sixteen inches is all right for 

 your studding to hold your material together, and then I had a lath made 

 dovetailed out of that same material. Some people put on their sheeting 

 and run their lath around. I don't think that is as good. It probably 



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