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is not necessary for men and teams to be rushed to their fullest extent in 
order to get the work done cheaply. Some of the most expensive work was 
conducted with the greatest furore and hurry. The scheme where all are 
working and no one is hindered by the others, is the most economical. 
The table on pages 102 and 103 shows the cost of filling 59 concrete 
silos during the season of 1910. Almost without exception the figures con- 
tained in these tables are considerably higher than usual, due to a poor 
crop of corn in most sections touched by the investigation and also to the 
peculiar condition of the crop in some sections of Michigan, where it fell 
down so badly as to make the use of harvesters impossible. 
The average cost of filling 16 concrete silos in Illinois was found to be 
573^ cents per ton; average of 22 silos in Michigan, 64 cents per ton; average 
of 10 silos in Wisconsin, 57 cents per ton; average of 4 Minnesota silos, 72 
cents per ton; of 2 Ohio silos, 89 cents per ton; and of 2 Missouri silos, 50 
cents per ton. The average cost of filling silos of 100 tons or less capacity 
was found to be 70 cents; 100 ton to 200 ton silos 58 cents, and silos over 
200 tons 57 cents. The average for all the silos investigated was found to 
be 62 cents. 
Recent investigations by the University of Illinois show the average 
cost of filling silos, including cutting crop in field, to be 58 cents per ton in 
Illinois, which figure compares favorably with the average of 573^ cents 
obtained in the investigation conducted by this company. Farmers ' Bulletin 
No. 292 on the "Cost of Filling Silos," shows a range of 46 cents to 86 cents 
per ton on the 31 silos investigated, giving an average of 64 cents as against 
Cutting feed cost on L. V. Jurgensmeyer 's farm Wisconsin leads in cows and silos. Concrete silo 
at Homer, Illinois. Silo constructed by Chris- on W. H. Butler's farm at Ripon, Wisconsin, 
man Construction Co. 
