46 HOW TO BUILD A SILO. 



regular farm help at odd hours, the item of labor is given at 

 estimated cost:' Studding-, $13.03; sheeting, $63.00; 5 rolls of 

 paper, $6.25; nails, $2.40; cement for wall, $2.40; labor, $20.00; 

 total, $107.08. The owner of the silo was so pleased with the 

 service this one had rendered since its construction, that he built 

 another like it during the summer of 1902. This silo is connected 

 by a covered passage and chute with the feeding floor of the 

 cattle barn. 



The construction of this type of silo calls for as much care 

 in putting on sheeting, making doors and keeping out the air at 

 these places and at the foundation, as is required with the more 

 expensive forms previously described. The need for outer siding 

 will depend in a large measure on circumstances. The farmer 

 building the silo (living in Central Indiana) has had no trouble 

 with his silage freezing. In Northern Indiana the siding would 

 naturally be more necessary than in the southern part of this 

 state, but generally speaking, siding is not necessary, although it 

 does materially add to the attractiveness of the silo. 



Plastered Round Wooden Silos. 



Plastered round wooden silos have met with favor among 

 farmers who have tried them, and are preferred by many for 

 either the original or the modified Wisconsin silo, on account of 

 their ease of construction and their durability. In the experience 

 of H. B. Gurler, a well known Illinois dairyman, who has built 

 several silos on his farm in the course of the last dozen years, the 

 walls of plastered silos keep perfectly and there is no waste 

 from moldy silage along the wall; neither is there any difficulty 

 about cracking of the plaster, if this is put on properly and a 

 good quality of cement is used. Gurler described the construc- 

 tion of his plastered silo in Breeder's Gazette, accompanying his 

 description with building plans of his silo. We have reproduced 

 the latter changed and improved in some points of minor im- 

 portance, and give below a brief description of the method of 

 building silos of this type. (See Pigs. 10 and 11.) 



The foundation may be made of stone, brick or cement, and 

 is carried to the proper distance above ground. Sills composed 

 of pieces of 2x4, two feet long, beveled at the ends so as to be 

 toe-nailed together to form a circle of the same diameter as the 



