at Home and Abroad. 
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ment was seen, owing to the curious inequalities of surface 
which the doors presented. A sample sent to the Laboratory on 
December 5th was found to contain only 51-1 per cent, of water. 
It need scarcely be added that although it was very 'dry, it 
rapidly went mouldy. 
22. Lord Egerton, of Tatton, Tatton Park, Kmifsford,'. Cheshire {per 
Mr. J. T. Smith, Estate-ageut). — The silo is an old ice-house in the Park, 
and was considered a good place for an experiment. The walls on the 
inside were plastered with cement ; the present entrance blocked ujj, and a 
new entrance made in the centre of the dome, all as shown by the Section 
accompanying this. 
Fig. 2. — Section of Lord Egerton's Silo at Tatton Park, slmoing'its 
condition at tliejnd of the third day's icorJc. 
0 F C R O U N D 
A, A, A. Boxes filled wiih bricks. 
B. Archway from the side of the bank, by which the silo is emptied, 
c. Xew brickwork. 
p. Height at which silo was finally weighted and settled ; condition of grass.'juicy and damp 
with dew. 
E. Section of grass quite dry and top grass dead. 
T, Height to which grass put in on first and second fiUings had sunk to when opened on July 27. 
G. Man-hole used for filling. 
The following are the dimensions of the ice-house : — 
Diameter, 11 feet 6 inches; height to square, 12 feet 6 inches; area, lOi 
stjuare feet. 
A portion of the Park fenced in and near the ice-house, and which often 
had been mown without a fair proportion of keep, was chosen as suitable. 
Though amongst it there was a proportion of fine grass, the greater quantity 
was rough and coarse. The process of filling the silo may be thus described : — 
July 3. — This day portable engine, chatf-cutter, and all other necessaries 
were on the ground. 
Jtdij 4. — At 8.15 our mowing-machine started, and at 9 our first load of 
grass left for the silo, the chafi'-cutter being got to work at 9.15. The first 
hamper when cut weighed 43 lbs., the same hamper filled with whole grass 
weighed 38 lbs. ; this quantity took 40 seconds to chop ; if grass is cut wet 
