CHAPTER II. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE " WINNING -FARM " SILOS. 



I WAITED long in hopes that one of our agricultural 

 colleges or experimental stations would take the initia- 

 tive. 



The following letters convinced me that there was no 

 use in waiting for more half-way experiments to be tried, 

 where " half of the fodder went to waste," and the bal- 

 ance was so imperfectly preserved that it was " very diffi- 

 cult to remove the peculiar and very disagreeable smell 

 from the hands after touching it : " 



NEW YORK, July 26, 1879. 

 JOHN M. BAILEY, ESQ. 



Dear Sir, . . . Can you not effect a combination, and build a Silo 

 of masonry, and make a business of it this fall ? I have not yet heard of 

 any one who is going to do it thoroughly. ... I speak of combination, 

 as all seem to be afraid to do it right on account of the expense. I don't 

 think any thing but masonry is sure, and that is. ... I have urged all 

 the enterprising and competent farmers I am acquainted with to be the 

 first to do it on Goffart's plan, but I have not succeeded as far as I now 

 know. 



Yours truly, 



J. B. BROWN. 



If any thing was necessary to convince me that I must 

 depend upon myself, this letter was enough. Mr. Brown 

 knew of Mr. Francis Morris's experiments and their un- 

 satisfactory results; hence his anxiety that I should test 



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