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inherent in the very nature of the material itself. Nor 

 can such a state of affairs be charged to the fact that 

 these silos were not properly guyed, because no guying 

 is sufficient to hold such material in place with a proper 

 degree of rigidity to insure stability. 



No wood exposed to the action of the elements is 

 safe from decay. The rains that beat upon the out- 

 side of a silo, the change in moisture conditions and in 

 temperature, the ab- 

 sorption of moisture 

 from the enclosed 

 silage, all help to 

 hasten the process of 

 decay. 



The Twentieth 

 Century Farmer also 

 states that it has on 

 file a statement from 

 a representative of a 

 wood silo company 

 to the effect that 25 

 per cent of the ensi- 

 lage in concrete silos 

 rots beyond use. The 

 editor brands this 

 unhesitatingly as a 

 false statement. This 

 paper has made an 

 extensive investiga- 

 tion of silos, and in 



the course of this investigation, concrete silo after con- 

 crete silo has been visited. In no case has dissatisfac- 

 tion with such a silo been found by the user. Such 

 silos have been in use for a number of years. The 



Failure 

 E. 



of Metal 

 W. Page, 



Silo on Farm 

 Goltry, Okla. 



of 



