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was going to build T would build a circular silo of some form, 

 W'hether it would be like a big cistern, or whether I would use 

 four-inch studding and spring around my lumber. If T did, 

 of course, the same point would enter into it about the wall 

 as in the square one. I have sometimes thought that perhaps 

 if steel or iron was cheap enough we could build one like a 

 stand-pipe, but I have not investigated. 



Mr. Cooledge: I know of one that is constructed the 

 same as a stand-pipe. It is round, about 30 feet high, made of 

 the refuse from a canning factory. 



Mr. Gurler: It certainly should be circular, w^hether it 

 be of wood or iron. 



Mr. Glidden: If a man was going to build a silo now 

 and should ask your advice as to the material he should use, 

 what would you say? 



Mr. Gurler: I think if I w^as going to build and had 

 to decide now, I would investigate this question of iron or 

 steel built like a stand-pipe. I don't know as we could afford 

 to do it, but if I had to decide right today, I would build it 

 like the water tanks of the railroad companies are built. 1 

 would use the stave. 



Mr. Glidden: I never would recommend a man to build 

 one of wood. I w^ould either build it of stone or brick. I 

 don't know about iron or steel, but ten years will use up a 

 wooden one, and a man can't afford to put up a building like 

 that once in ten years. I built silos big enough to hold 2,000 

 tons and used them for two years, and since that I filled them 

 with dry feed. They are built with 2x4's, 16 feet circular, 20 

 feet high. T lined them and plastered them and everything-; 

 else. 



Mr. West: I think it has been demonstrated that the 

 acids corrode iron and steel and it is not practicable. Is it 

 not true that corn going through certain stages of heat in 

 the silo loses certain qualities more than in the stack? 



Prof. Haecker: The losses would be no more than in 

 fodder corn. 



Mr. Glidden: How are you feeding your corn this win- 

 ter? In what shape, Mr. Gurler? 



Mr. Gurler: I am feeding part from the silo and some 

 hav and then [ am cutting some shock corn. I put fifty acres 



