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SELLING LUMBER 



The Sale 

 of Silos 

 a Specialty 



Superior 

 Points of 

 the Wood 

 Silo 



All to the extent that it is estimated by some of the close 

 students in silo and stock raising that the investment in silos in 

 a community will lead in many instances to an awakening and 

 start a building era or campaign with the result that the silo sale 

 will cause a double quantity of lumber to be used. 



Fourth The sale of silos is a specialty and the wooden silo 

 manufacturers should be cultivated by both the lumber salesman 

 and retail lumber dealers for the reason that the sale of silos 

 means further use of lumber, and the dealer will get to furnish 

 this lumber. It is not to the interest of the dealer that substitutes 

 be used because building of cement silos means cement dipping 

 vat, water troughs, etc. 



Fifth A silo should be built out of wood because it will 

 preserve ensilage in a more satisfactory manner than a silo built 

 out of any other material. Wood is a non-conductor, therefore, 

 ensilage will cure and keep better in a wooden silo, and leaves 

 your ensilage in a sweeter and more perfect condition, therefore 

 reduces spoiled ensilage tc a minimum. 



Sixth It is easier to repair a wooden silo. By this I mean 

 that should a cement or tile silo show a defect in sone part of it, 

 it would be a whole lot harder to repair than it would if a defect 

 should show up in a wooden silo, because about all you would 

 have to do in a wooden silo would be to put in some new staves. 



Seventh A wooden silo can be erected at a much less cost 

 and if a man wanted to move a silo from a certain part of the 

 farm to another, he can certainly move a wooden silo a great 

 deal easier than he could a silo made out of any other material. 



Eighth The difference in the cost of a wooden silo as com- 

 pared to any other silo having the same capacity is enough less 

 to maintain the upkeep of the wooden silo, and the user has as his 

 profit interest charges on the additional outlay, and, it is esti- 

 mated, about 10 per cent more ensilage. 



Ninth The wooden silo has a known life of twenty-five 

 years, and it is not certain that either steel or cement would last 

 so long. Some authorities maintain that wood has the longest 

 life for ensilage. 



Tenth The wooden silo can supply the small users (feed- 

 ing as few as ten head) requiring silos of fifty tons capacity and 

 less. Then big development of the future will come from this 

 source. 



