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use is then ended. The flooring should just match at the corners; may 

 need a little dressing with plane to make a tight joint. Continue around 

 nailing as you go, except where doors are wanted. For these cut 2 feet 

 out of a girder, fit two pieces of 2x4 perpendicular for side jambs. When 

 lining, leave one inch space all around the face. Cut pieces of flooring 

 -22 inches long and place horizontally as silo is filled. 



Material required for this silo twenty feet high is 78 2x4 of oak 13 

 ieet long, 624 feet, 1440 feet flooring. 



78 2x4, 12 ft. long, 624, at $1-00 % 6.24 



1440 ft. flooring at $2.00 per 100 28.80 



12 lbs. No. 20 spikes at 5c 60 



20 lbs. No. 6 nails at 5c 1.00 



Total $36.64 



.A stave silo of same capacity 18 ft., 8 in. in diameter (inside), 60 feet 



;around, takes 144 2x6 staves 20 ft. long. 



144 2x6 pine beaded 20 ft. long, 2880 ft., at $2.75 $77.20 



4 4x4 hoop supports, 20 ft. long, ilO ft 3.00 



Sills of oak 5.00 



8 hoops in 4 sections of 15 foot each, made of % round iron, tipped 



with 6 inch pieces for threads and nuts; costof hoops at $3.50. . 18.44 

 Por threading, welding, etc 6.40 



Total $110.04 



As against $36.64 for a twelve side silo with wood girths for widing, 

 and practically without corners, made of material carried in stock at all 

 lumber yards. It is put up without scaffolding by one man. Any 

 ifarmer who can saw and drive nails can do the entire work. Founda- 

 tion and roof are not flgured here. They would cost the same for either 

 dform of silo. A clay floor is sulficient and cheap. We now have a mod- 

 ^ern silo at one-third the usual cost. 



Ensilage. — Improved machinery for the field, new style cutter with 

 greater feeding capacity and pneumatic elevators. All these have their 

 place in lessening the cost of tilling the silo. 



But the new thing in ensilage that is coming to us now is a greater 

 Imowledge of the nutrative value of the plants with which to make en- 

 :silage. Corn has always heen considered the crop par excellence for the 



