EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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trodes were read and recorded from the time the electrodes 

 were buried until they were uncovered, as the ensilage was 

 used. After removal the electrodes were carefully standard- 

 ized for each ten degrees of their range by comparison with a 

 mercurial thermometer, and the following tables of tempera- 

 tures occurring in the silo were computed. 



The silos are side by side in one corner of the barn; they are 

 double-walled of matched boards, and extend from the base- 

 ment floor to the plates on which the roof rests, about thirty 



