THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



The silos on the stock farm were immense, 

 elaborate affairs of brick, and plastered in- 

 teriors, which were always needing repairs, so 

 that style was tabooed. We decided that the 

 foundations should be concrete, for, since the 

 i early days when I essayed the craft of ma- 

 sonry, and succeeded in making our first cow's 

 stable a tidy, wholesome place, concrete has 

 been used whenever possible about the farm, 

 and our equipment of tools and knowledge 

 had grown sufficiently to make Mr. Fred and 

 Sidney quite capable of attending to that 

 part of the work unaided; but the cylinder 

 storehouse itself gave us much anxious 

 thought, until we decided to engage a couple 

 of practical carpenters, as accuracy in the 

 construction of a silo is most imperative, and 

 adopted for a model the one in use at the 

 Cornell Experiment Station. 



A circular trench, two feet wide, with an 

 outer diameter of twenty-two feet, was dug 

 about three feet deep, in which to start the 

 concrete wall. When it was six inches above 



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