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Mr. Wells: This piece that you have is two pieces (referring to the 

 sample exhibited)? 



Mr, Gurler: Yes. 



The Secretary: You dress the lumber for them? 



Mr. Gurler: No, I had this dressed. I didn't tell the man to dress it. 



Mr. Wells: The idea was whether you put on these seven-eighths 

 pieces as a whole? 



Mr. Gurler: No, that is two parts; that is all there is to it. Now, iii 

 regard to the construction of silos, this question of how you shall build 

 a silo I have discussed with a lot of the dairy leaders. Professor Glover, 

 who is doing worli for the Illinois Experiment Station, has had the per- 

 sonal oversight of the building of three silos. I was around and helped 

 and watched. There was one built of 2x4 put up edgeways. He put up 

 one and then put up another and spiked it edgeways and then he put on 

 hoolis. Well, there was one built near Elgin last year that cost $282 and 

 held 130 tons, and then there were two silos built up in that vicinity the 

 way my silo was built and cost $299 and held 183 tons. That cost per 

 ton was $1.63. Now this silo built as I built mine has a roof on it and is 

 sheeted on the outside, and this silo is fast on a concrete foundation and 

 it holds 183 tons and it cost $1.63 per ton. He gives the figures on another 

 one that cost $260 and holds 200 tons, but it is not sheeted on the outside. 



The Secretary: That one that you say holds 183 tons was built on the 

 same plan as yours? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, and all complete and roofed and weatherboarded. 

 Now, let me give you a basis on which to figure. This is the way to get 

 at the cost of building a silo. It depends on the diameter. Take two silos, 

 say one twenty feet in diameter and one forty feet in diameter. It is 

 twice as far around the forty, but it will only cost a quarter as much 

 more. It is hard to tell what it will cost to build a silo unless you figure 

 up the surface of it. I built a silo several years ago and had it weather- 

 boarded that cost me 12^ cents a square foot of surface. To illusti-ate 

 that: Say twenty feet in diameter, that would be about sixty-three feet 

 around it, and if it was twenty-three feet high that would be 1,260 surface 

 feet, and 12% cents per square foot, that would be one-eighth of 1,260, 

 which would be practically between $175 and $180. That would give you 

 practically the cost of building a silo. If you will figure it about 12i/4 

 cents a surface foot you will have it about right. 



Mr. Wood: Is it well for the silage to have it without a roof? 



