SELLING LUMBER 



391 



Some Arguments Supporting the Ten Reasons for Wooden Silos. 



One manufacturer writes as follows: 



"A case of more than ordinary interest has just come to my 

 attention. Mr of , who is in the lumber busi- 

 ness in some capacity, two years ago bought an Imperishable 

 Vitrified silo, as he wanted something that would last for all time 

 and would not give him any trouble. Last week he offered to 

 give it away to anyone who would remove it, and one of his neigh- 

 bors has offered to take it down and will use the block for build- 

 ing a foundation for a hog house. It seems to me that inasmuch 

 as he was in a sense knocking his own game that it serves him 

 about right, and he might give you something which w r ould be of 

 advantage to you if you would go after him the right way. We 

 have not yet secured his order for a silo, although we fully ex- 

 pect to do so." 



Another authority has this to say: 



"The main reason for wood silos is because wood makes a 

 better silo for the purpose for which silos are built; that is, to 

 preserve green feed in a sweet and palatable condition for cattle. 

 Now, if a wood silo is properly taken care of, that is, if it is roofed 

 and painted on the outside and the anchors are put on as any 

 manufacturer suggests on his particular kind of building, it will 

 be a building that will keep sweet, palatable ensilage for a great 

 many years. We have been in the silo business now fourteen 

 years and our oldest silos that have been only fairly well taken 

 care of are still performing this function. We know of no other 

 substitute which has been used this long or even half so long 

 that has not had a great deal of complaint, and this complaint, 

 wherever I have investigated, has been because of more or less 

 spoilage of ensilage." 



"Now, the thing I have seen about the masonry silos that 

 are built up, such as tile, brick, cement block, cement stave, etc., 

 is that the mortar is usually of such material that it soon cracks 

 or crumbles away, leaving small or large holes between the joints 

 all through the silo. The stave silo, when the joint gets open, 

 merely have to have the hoops tightened, which eliminates these 

 openings or cracks. They cannot be eliminated when mortar 

 crops out of the joints in the brick, cement or tile silo wall. The 

 steel silo has not come into much prominence because it is very 



Arguments 

 Supporting 

 the Ten 

 Reasons for 

 Wooden 

 Silos 



Wooden 

 Silos Pre- 

 serve Green 

 Feed Best 



