PRACTICAL 

 SILO CONSTEUCTION 



THE concrete silo has within the past year demon- 

 strated to the majority of builders its superiority 

 over all other types of silo construction. Not only 

 for the great durability of properly made concrete 

 does it base its claims for consideration, but in the 

 fact that it can be made water-proof and frost-proof, 

 as well as being absolutely air-tight, has done much 

 to advance the concrete silo in the favorable opinion 

 of the farmer as well as the builder. In the process 

 of ensilage we are only adapting to our present day 

 needs a method of preserving grains and green crops 

 that has been in successful use for centuries. The 

 fact that the masonry silos or granaries of the an- 

 cient Egyptians were built on practically the same 

 plan as our present-day silos, and that this method 

 of ensilage was in successful use for centuries, will 

 be of interest to the doubter who believes that stone, 

 either natural or artificial, is not the best material 

 for the construction of a structure for the preser- 

 vation of grain or any crop. In fact, the greatest 

 enemy of the concrete silo to-day is the man who 



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