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I would build again I would dig into the ground as far as T 

 could go and cement it; then T w^ould brick it up, and I 

 wouldn't care whether I had any roof on or not; just a light 

 roof. I would build the top entirely of brick. I do not think 

 the lumber keeps well, the acid or something rots it. 



Mr. Gurler: How would you hold a brick silo together? 



Mr. Glidden: Put on a hoop about two or three inches 

 wide. 



Mr. Johnson: Wouldn't that make it very expensive? 



Mr. Glidden: I don't know that you could fix it with 

 anything any cheaper. 



Mr. Hostetter: How thick would your brick wall be? 



Air. Glidden: If I was going to build it eighteen or 

 twenty feet in diameter, 1 should make it eight inches. I 

 would cement it right down on the ground, plaster it inside 

 on the dirt, and nothing on the brick; that is the way ours 

 is. The first year we filled it with dry fodder, because we 

 could not get a machine to cut it. We started the mill running 

 and kept pumjjing three days, put it onto the silo. 



MR. GURLER RESUMED THE CHAIR. 



The Chairman: I w^ould like to ask Mr. Wheeler in re- 

 gard to the comparative expense of putting corn into the silo 

 and cutting it in from the shock. Which do you think is the 

 most economical? 



Mr. Wheeler: I think putting in the same amount of feed 

 for, say, thirty head of cows that I would just as soon fill the 

 silo as stack the corn. I have filled five years. I have not 

 been satisfied with last year. I shall try to build, but 1 don't 

 know how yet. I shall certainly build round in preference 

 to s(]uare. 1 have a little doubt between wood and iron. I 

 have rods going through my silo and after being filled five 

 years those two rods are pretty nearly eaten off with the acid. 



The Chairman: I have rods that have been exposed 

 for ten years and they are doing their work yet. 



Mr. Wheeler: T filled with different kinds of corn. One 

 }'ear T put in quite a little sweet corn, but I didn't like that 

 as well. It seemed to do more damage to the silo than any- 

 thing else T had. The wood of the silo looked all right last 



