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FEEDING ANIMALS. 



added at any time without any change of plan. This form 

 of silo may be placed with the door end near the drive- 

 way into the basement stable. A track laid from the silo 

 door to and along the center of the feeding-floor of the 

 stable, on which a car can be run to the silo and the ensi- 

 lage delivered to the animals on either side of the floor. 

 This car may hold one feed for the whole stock, and be 

 moved on the track by one man. 



Fig. 16. TRIPLE SILO. 



These silos are intended to be built of concrete, and the 

 plan shows how the walls are constructed. 8 8 S S rep- 

 resent the standards 3 x 6-inch scantling placed inside 

 the proposed walls, edges to the wall, making them stiff er 

 in holding the plank boxing. These standards are placed 

 mostly in pairs (one on each side of the wall) and three 

 inches further apart than the wall is to be thick, and reach- 

 ing some inches above the top of the intended wall 17 

 feet long for a wall 16 feet high. The pairs of standards 

 are placed about 8 feet apart. The boxing planks (repre- 

 sented by the lines inside of the standard) may most con- 



