CAPACITY OF SILOS. 



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month. At any time after it is compacted, the weights 

 can be removed, the plank taken up, the straw , raked 

 off, and more green fodder of any kind put on top of 

 that which is in the Silo, thereby utilizing all the space. 

 If more fodder be raised than the Silo will hold, the 

 walls can be carried up about two feet with plank, and 

 filled so that when settled the Ensilage will fill the Silo 

 to the top of the masonry walls. 



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Sectional view of Silo, 12 feet wide, 12 feet high, and 24 or 30 feet long; capacity, 80 to too tons of Ensilage, 

 sufficient to winter fifteen to twenty cows ; cost, exclusive of labor, about $40, where stone are plenty. 



I, I, three-inch by four-inch scantling. 



II, II, i^-inch by 1 2-inch plank, between which and the rough wall a concrete or grout is poured. 



III, III, dotted line showing the face of the concrete pointing and plastering. 



