306 TJie Silo and Silage-stack Competition, 1885-86. 
Table I. — Cost of New Silos. 
Name. 
Materials used in Construction. 
Total 
Capacity, 
Cub. Feet. 
Cost per 
50 Cub. Feet. 
Morris 
jvii oy . . . . 
Brassey 
Collingwood 
Howard 
Stones, bricks off estate — M. P.* . . 
Concrete walls — Slate roof — D, W .J 
JConcrete walls — Iron roof — ]M, P."l 
Stones, Slate roof, M. P 
Bricks, Cement, Iron lid 
Wood and D. W 
7,020t 
11,050 
15,550 
2,450 
1,850 
£ s. d. 
0 14 9 
n Q 
u y i> 
1 15 0 
0 14 0 
18 0 
0 10 0 
6 
) 5 10 9 
Average 
£0 18 6 
* M. P. = Mechanical Pressure. 
t Capacity of super-silo 3,780 cubic feet. 
% D. W. = Dead Weight. 
Table II. — Cost of the best Silos in the Western District 
per 100 cubic feet. 
Name. 
Capacity, 
Cub. Feet. 
Total Cost. 
Cost per 
100 Cubic 
Feet. 
New Structures. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
s. d. 
Morris . . 
7,020 
102 
18 
8 
29/5 
Supersilo 3780 cubic feet extra. 
Elwes 
Rapsgall silo 
3,348 
15 
9 
6 
9/3, 4/7J 
Built across the end of a baru. 
Pcnhell .. 
5,143 
18 
9 
H 
3/7 
Ditto ditto. 
[Covered space overhead 96,000 
Harris . . 
28,224 
542 
0 
0 
19/21 
1 cubic feet at 20 feet high — 
( new structure. 
Hellier .. .. 
2,880 
34 
15 
0 
12/1 
Wood — new building. 
Built in a covered yard. 
Tanner .. 
6,163 
93 
0 
0 
18/OJ 
Ld.Wolverton's 
Church Hill 
12,960 
280 
8 
3 
21/7 
18/5 
New building. 
Hill Bam .. 
6,023 
111 
3 
G 
Built across the end of u barn. 
Ward and "I 
Lawry . . j 
3,300 
87 
0 
0 
26/4 
/Covered space or supersilo, 
\ 3000 feet. 
Martin .. .. 
3,780 
37 
15 
10 
10/^ 
JA new building built against 
\ the outer wall of an old one. 
Cornish .. 
8,000 
108 
8 
7 
13/6 
New building. 
(3.) The cost of cutting, loading, carting, filling the silo, and 
pressing the fodder, is of more practical value to the farmer, but 
the Judges are not in a position to give any positive opinion on 
the subject. 
(4.) Pressing the Silage. — The Judges throughout their 
journeys were very favourably impressed with the economy and 
efficiency of pressing by dead weights; — notably in those places 
where there was dry soil or sand to combine in itself the two 
