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DOVER, Feb. 15, 1888. 

 Mr. SAMUEL M. COLCORD : 



Sir, Thinking you might like to have it, it 

 is with pleasure that I give you this testimony. 

 Having been employed by S. M. Colcord for 

 six months in 1887 upon his silo and barn, 

 from the construction of the walls to the filling 

 and finishing of the silo and barn, having had 

 full knowledge of his theories and experiments, 

 seen them tested and proved, and having ex- 

 amined his tests and methods, and read what 

 he has written and what has been published 

 in the papers about his system and methods, I 

 feel impelled to add my testimony as to the 

 truth of the statements made. They are not 

 exaggerated statements. I know them to be 

 true; for I have daily taken the temperature in 

 the silo myself, and measured the amount of 

 juice at the bottom. I know that there has 

 been no heating up of the corn in the pit, and 

 no odor of ensilage about the barn or silo. I 

 have seen it taken daily from the pit and 

 weighed out to the cows. It is all of uniform 

 quality, with no waste whatever, and I have 

 noticed that it was all eaten up clean. 



