1 86 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q. In what proportions? 



A. About two parts of sand to on© of cement. I won't be positive 

 about that though. You get a man who understands his business, he will 

 know; don't have any other. There has been more faulty work done in 

 the cement work. It cost me $500 a year ago last fall to go over that. I 

 let some men have their own way and it went to pieces. I had that work 

 patched up by a man that knew his business. When we came to tear it 

 out that patchwork was as sound and hard that the sitones themselves 

 that were in it, and when we went to break through a .section of that we 

 would go right for the flint and the cement would not let go. That is 

 what you want. 



Q. Will it stand the shrinkage of the lumber and frost and all that? 



A. Well,! have got three of those filled the fourth time. I found 

 no weakness along that line. Here's a point, if it does crack it costs but 

 a little to go over it with a wash of that cement. 



Q. How thick is it? 



A. One-half of five-eights of an inch outside of your lath. 



These ideas did not originate with me. I can say this, I studied out 

 in 1897 this plan of building my silo, and after I got the idea perfectly in 

 my own mind, I wrote to the Wisconsin Agricultural College, and they 

 replied that in investigating and hunting for material to make such a 

 silo they had found out that they were using some that had been in use 

 six or eight years that were built in a similar manner, and the gentleman 

 said that at that time, after six or eight years' use, were in just as per- 

 fect condition as when built, and 1 see no indication of decay in my silo. 



Another point, that cement wall preserves your lumber; it keeps the 

 moisture off the silo in coming in contact with the lumber and it does 

 preserve the silage from coming in contact with the air. I do think gen- 

 tlemen that that ?nakes the ideal silo. I am not going to throw mud at 

 any other circular silo. I think you will find inside of ten years there 

 will be a good many that are lathed and plastered. 



Q. What is, the cost? 



A. That's a hard matter to get at. You figure the cost on the con- 

 tents and what it contains and it depends on the size' of it. I will give 



