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silo from a local sales company. It was ordered by an- 

 other farmer, but was not taken by him upon the ar- 

 rival of the blocks. The blocks cost only $285, but upon 

 purchasing a second silo, the blocks cost $332 delivered 

 at the railway station. In erecting the first silo local 

 bricklayers were employed, but they did not prove en- 

 tirely satisfactory, as in one round they failed to break 

 the joints of the blocks, and in the second they failed to 

 make the blocks complete the round, and filled in with a 

 brick in two places. The blocks were not laid as smoothly 

 and fiush as they should have been. In erecting the sec- 

 ond silo, the dairyman's son did the work without diffi- 

 culty, and it was entirely satisfactory. He did a fine 

 job, fitting the tiles iu place perfectly, and not bulging 

 the walls at any point. Both of these glazed top silos 

 will be used in the future. The second silo is sixteen 

 by thirty-three feet in size, and the blocks for it cost 

 $332, while the first silo which is sixteen by thirty feet 

 cost, complete with roof, shute and walls, $427. The son, 

 who is twenty-five years old, has also built a concrete 

 wall in the cellar of the farm house, and he laid the blocks 

 in the new milk room, which is illustrated in the half-tone 

 printed in connection with this article. It was first plan- 

 ned to build a nailk room of twelve by eighteen feet after 

 the blocks had arrived. To make up for the deficiency in 

 blocks, the foundation wall, which was constructed of 

 concrete, was built two feet above ground, and the blocks 

 laid on top of it. The blocks for this glazed tile milk 

 house cost $37.50 delivered at the railway station. The 

 farmer told us that the shingle roof, the doors and win- 

 dows, ran the cost up to $150 for material for the house. 

 Labor of building was additional to this cost. 



This dairyman likes the glazed tile construction so 

 well that he has begun the erection of an ice house, which 

 is to be built nine feet above ground, and about five feet 

 into the ground. It will resemble a low silo. 



Eecently we were asked to present a set of figures 

 relative to the profit that might be expected from a hun- 

 dred-acre dairy farm. We figured that a progressive 

 man might maJie fourteen hundred dollars profit from 

 such an acreage in the course of a year. We wondered 

 if we had figured it correctly, taking for granted that the 



