CHEAP ROOF FOR STAVE SILO. 



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lip, and if care be taken In this regard it will not be necessary 

 to replace them in the same order at each successive filling of 

 the silo. The door boards should be matched, two Inches thick 

 the same as the staves, and if surfaced and well seasoned there 

 need be no fear of the silage spoiling around such a, door. A 

 strip of acid and water-proof paper may be placed in the rabbet, 

 between the ends of the door boards and the stave, as an extra 

 precaution, but if the carpenter work is well done it is not 

 absolutely necessary. 



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Such a door can be adapted to any form of stave silo, and, if 

 not more than two feet wide, the fact that the door section 

 Is straight instead of curved will make no difference. 



If the silo is built outside of the barn some sort of a, roof 

 is desirable. This should be sufficiently wide to protect the 

 walls of the silo as thoroughly as possible. A very satisfactory 

 roof is shown in Fig. 16. Two other constructions of a, cheap 

 roof for a stave silo are sho\vn in Figs. 20 and 21. The latter 



Fig. 20. — A cheap roof for stave silos. 



