TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 5 



Form of silo 5 



Size of silos 5 



Capacity of silos 6 



Essentials of a well-designed silo 7 



Types of silos 7 



Wood silos : 8 



Stave silos 8 



Silo woods 9 



Ordering stave silos 9 



The homemade tongued and grooved stave silo 9 



Foundations 9 



Erecting the silo 10 



Care of stave silos 10 



Silos underground, or pit silos 10 



Types of pit silos 12 



Constructing pit silos 12 



Removing the silage 13 



Cost of pit silos 1.4 



Concrete block silo 14 



Laying the walls 15 



Blocks 15 



Scaffold 16 



Roofs 16 



Cost of concrete block silos 16 



Clay block silos 17 



Cost of clay block silos , 18 



Solid concrete silos 18 



Forms . . . . 18 



Reinforcement 19 



Doors 20 



Cost of solid concrete silos 20 



Other silos . . 20 



