Preserving Green Forage 67 



In building a silo, it pays to build well ; and, 

 to prove all the facts about it, I tried to build 

 perfectly, in order to test the possibilities of a 

 perfect system, and have inserted in this book 

 a picture of the staging, inside and outside the 

 silo wall, when it was 5 feet high, taken from 

 a photograph (see cut, p. 68). When building 

 my silo, the weather was 100 in the shade, 

 the plank between which the w r all was made 

 was exposed to the sun on one side, and cold, 

 wet, grout cement mortar on the other side. 

 The consequence was that the plank swelled, 

 or rolled, between the upright timbers ^ of I 

 inch on each side, making y 2 inch variation, 

 in some places, between the side walls ; and 

 this was and is the only deviation in the walls. 



The following cut, taken from a photograph, 

 shows my silo in process of building : 



