laid in cement, and liaving the walls and floor covered with •a 

 good smootii lining of cement. 



But if stones are not easily accessible, you can put the 

 cement directly on to tlie wall of earth without the use of 

 stones at all. The largest and best silo in this county is con- 

 structed in this way, with a sui-face wall of brick to receive 

 the roof. Such silos have several advantages over the wooden 

 ones. They are more impervious to the air, are more easily 

 filled, are more easily and securely weighted, will last a life- 

 time and consequently cost less in the end. 



The cost of building such silos, varies in different localities, 

 according to the price of labor and material. As a general 

 rule, it will cost about one dollar for every ton's capacity ; that 

 ig to say, a silo that will contain fifty tons of ensilage will cost 

 about fifty dollars, exclusive of the roof, and where your silo 

 is built in your barn cellar, it will need no roof. A larger silo 

 can be built for a less proportionate amount, and silos should 

 be constructed with compartments, each capable of holding 

 from twenty-five to fifty tons, so that you can store different 

 crops at different times, and when feeding out you do not 

 expose but a small surface to the influence of the atmosphere. 



As to the cost of storing ensilage, here we cannot arrive at 

 any accurate estimate, the price of labor, and the facilities for 

 transporting and cutting are so variable ; but we find that the 

 expense of storing ensilage has been greatly reduced within 

 the last five years. We have known instances where the cost 

 of storing ensilage has exceeded two dollars and a half per 

 ton, but the past season, we have known of several instances 

 where the entire cost of cutting and storing has been less than 

 one dollar per ton, and tlie work of cutting was performed by 

 horse power instead of steam power. A few years ago, it was 

 thought that nothing but steam power would do the work, but 

 it has been demonstrated that a good strong pair of horses, 

 well trained for the work, with a good working power, can cut 

 from fifty to sixty tons per day. By this method, our farmers 



