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lightning, fire, flood, or drought, than upon 

 any other stock food; that cattle drink only 

 about one-half as much as when fed on hay; 

 that by this system we can feel , insured against 

 cold or hot, wet or dry seasons, and silos can 

 easily be protected from frost. My silo is 

 boarded up outside with i-x-6-inch rough 

 feather-edge boards to the top, and packed 

 between with 6 inches of sawdust on the ex- 

 posed side and end. It will be found to be 

 the rrfost economical way to build good, tight 

 silos. The expense of building them depends 

 somewhat upon the soil and situation : the 

 expense should be about the same in building 

 for stock fed with preserved forage as for hay. 

 There is no economy in building cheap silos, 

 and poor economy, with great waste, in pack- 

 ing corn in whole, filling slow, and having heat 

 and fermentation that cannot be controlled. 



No lime should be used in the mortar for 

 building silos. Any one intending to build a 

 silo, or having one that is not satisfactory, will 

 do well to call and see this one. It will be a 

 great satisfaction, and a saving of time and 

 money, as the important experiments have 

 nearly all been made, and are open to any 

 one that calls. It is very easy to see how 

 silos can be altered to make this kind of 

 forage. 



