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IND'E'X 



Masonry silos, advantages, 31; 



development, 10; kinds, 32. 

 Material for silos, influence of, 



21; safe strength of, 84. 

 Mold, cause of in silage, 12. 

 Mold poisoning, 13. 

 Monolithic concrete silos, 60. 

 Motar, 93. 



Painting wood silos, 23. 



Planning the silos, 39, 96. 



Pit, 7, 46. 



Plastered silos, 34. 



Plastering concrete silos, 64. 



Poisoning from silage, 13. 



Preservation of silage, 11; air 

 spaces in walls, 20; frozen 

 silage, 18; influence of materials, 

 21 ; nature of process, 11 ; moldy 

 silage, 13; settling, 17. 



Reinforcement, 60, 63; of door 



frames, 74. 



Reinforcement table, 78. 

 Roof construction, 79. 

 Roof plans, 49, 79. 

 Round silo, development, 8. 



Safe strength of materials, 84. 

 Scaffolding, for block silo, 67; 



stave silos, 52. 

 Settling of silage, 17. 



Sheathing, 50. 



Sheep, amount of silage for, 44. 



Silage preservation, 11. 



Shear stress, 86. 



Size of silo, 43. 



Splicing, 90. 



Square silo, 8. 



Stave silo, 21, 27; erection, 52. 



Steel, 63, 90. 



Stone silos, 32, 33. 



Tamping concrete, 92. 

 Tension, 86. 

 Testing concrete, 91. 



Unandilla door, 28. 

 Vitrified brick, 93. 



Wall, air spaces in, 20; construct- 

 ing, for Iowa silos, 65 ; materials 

 of, 17, 21; quality of silage at, 

 11. 



Water tank on silo, 85, 87, 88. 



Welding, 90. 



Wisconsin silo, 8, 24. 



Wood for silos, 23, 96. 



Wood hoop silo, 25. 



Wood silos, 23. 



