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costs a little less, but the cement probably did not reach all that space 

 back of that, and you do not get as solid a wall. You get five-eighths of 

 an inch cement where here you have practically an inch of cement, and it 

 will stand a harder blow. That is all the advantage I can see in putting 

 it on in that way. 



Mr. Buruside: What is the width of these stringers? 



Mr. Gurler: Those are an inch and a half; I would not have them more 

 than two inches. 



Mr. Burnside: Do you do any weatherboarding on the outside? 



Mr. Gurler: No, it was new to me, and I wasn't sure about the re- 

 sistance, and I looked it up and found what the pressure was at different 

 depths, and I went to a civil engineer and told him to help me out. "Why," 

 he says, "Gurler. if you could be sure of your cement cementing without 

 cracking, it would resist that pressure." And then we went to figuring 

 and we found we could get a resistance in wood cheaper than anything 

 else. And now for the outside: I built one, and on the outside I put this 

 same half-inch lumber. It needs to have a form of siding that will lay 

 against your studding. I think if I was to put on weatherboarding now, 

 I would get some strong board. If I could get elm strips and then weather- 

 board up and down, putting siding on the outside. 



Mr. Argo: You sheet outside round and round? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, that is Avhere you get your strength. 



Mr. Argo: And the outside with elm, or something, run up and down? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, board up and down. If you were going to board up 

 and down, you would need something to nail your up-and-down boards to. 



Dr. Woolen: Why not make a stave silo? 



Mr. Gurler: Now, you are opening up where I want to go. 



Mr. Wells: Do I understand that you put the thin sheet first and then 

 the boards on top of that? 



JNIr. Gurler: Yes, and put your cement on top of that. 



Mr. Wells: How do you paint those? 



Mr. Gurler: They will paint easy. 



Mr. Argo: I understand you to say that was an inch plank? 



Mr. Gurler: No, that is made of two half-inch pieces. 



