Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^^ 



way they put a row through. On each side there is a waste of 

 room. Besides that they have to have such a large opening in 

 the door to take the hay in, the barn is extremely cold. 



Mr. Lee :— Have they the silo in the center ? 



Mr. Campbell : — Silos should not be permitted to be put in 

 the barn, they are offensive. 



Mr. Lee: — Do you think there would be more silage odor 

 where the silo is in the barn? What objection would there be 

 to building a silo if there is no odor ? 



Mr. Campbell: — It is impossible to build a silo that will 

 keep the odor out, because we must open the doors to get the 

 feed out. You can keep it out more when the silo is on the 

 outside. 



Mr. Lee: — I think that is something no one can speak on 

 definitely. It depends altogether on the man that handles the 

 silage. 



Mr. Campbell. — It depends on the man, how careless he is, 

 in having it lying in the barn. 



Mr. Lee: — We feel there will be no more odor from the 

 silage with the silo in the center than where the silo is located 

 outside. 



Mr. Campbell : — With the average dairy farmer I do not 

 believe it would practical, but the way you keep things the silo 

 in your barn will be more agreeable than 90 out of 100 ordinary 

 dairymen would have it with the silo outside. 



Mr. Lee : — We went over the whole plan, figuring the cost 

 of a silo we would have to build separately if we built an ob- 

 long barn, and the cost was considerably decreased. The whole 

 thing depends on the man that handles the barn, from the stand- 

 point of feeding silage and also how the barn is arranged so 

 as to reduce the waste room in handling the product in the barn. 

 You can drive right into our barn and back out. 



Mr. Campbell : — That can be done in a country where you 

 have a side hill or go to the expense of building a bridge. Mr. 

 Ichner is going to build near me, we are on a level prairie, and if 

 he builds a round barn and economizes on space, he has to go 

 to the expense of building a strong bridge that will carry a pair 

 of horses and two tons behind the horses. There is an expense 



