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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 30, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A STOCK-SALE SATURDAY. 
The first Saturday of each month is 
known as “stock-sale” day at Hills¬ 
boro, Ohio, which with Washington 
C. H., Wilmington and Chillicothe make 
a sort of horse buyer’s circuit. Horse 
buyers for Cincinnati and other cities 
visit each of these towns on its respec¬ 
tive stock sale Saturday to examine and 
perhaps to buy the horses brought in 
and offered for sale by farmers and 
others who have surplus horses. Large 
numbers of horses are sold or “swap¬ 
ped” at these “sales” and for the good 
horses long prices are realized; for 
instance at the recent March stock sale 
a team of only fair-sized horses sold 
for $425, but light drivers were not 
wanted, and no draft horses were of¬ 
fered. These horse buyers are good 
judges of horses and if the horses of¬ 
fered are not sufficient in number or 
quality they do not hesitate to stop the 
driver of a horse that suits them and 
make great efforts to effect its purchase. 
These men stop short of making nuis- 
DISCUSSION OF AN UNDERGROUND SILO. 
I was very much interested in Mr. 
Leigh’s article on an underground silo 
given on page 250. I have a basement 
to my silo, and judging from that I 
think the underground silo is all right 
and within the reach of us all. I shall 
build one this coming Summer, but I 
do not agree with Mr. Leigh in making 
it square. If it is built round it would 
be less apt to cave in when empty, as it 
would be self-bracing all the way 
around and no corners to contend with. 
Now, here comes the question of depth. 
We can have it just one-half as deep 
and twice as large around or more. To 
eliminate the trouble in having so much 
surface exposed when feeding, I would 
get some two-inch plank long enough 
to reach from one side to the other (in¬ 
side). I would have them matched and 
make a partition right in the centre 
from bottom to top, and in filling carry 
both sides up alike or nearly so. 
If there should be any fear of the 
partition not holding, stays could be put 
in from the partition to the side as you 
go along down, but I think it would not 
be necessary, the silage being pressed 
so hard there would be practically no 
pressure on the partition. The corners 
could be eliminated by placing a plank 
on end and plastering up the edges 
To go back to the starting point, in 
AN OHIO SATURDAY HORSE SALE. Fig. 157. 
ances of themselves in this respect, and 
only good humor prevails throughout 
the day. The livery stables are the 
headquarters of the horse dealers, but 
the principal streets are their field of 
action, affording opportunity for ex¬ 
amination of the horses for blemishes 
and unsoundness. The municipal au¬ 
thorities take no cognizance of these 
sale days other than to keep the streets 
open to traffic and to arrest any dis¬ 
turber of the peace. If the weather be 
warm large crowds are always in at¬ 
tendance, and the stores and places of 
business are taxed to the limit, and at 
the end of the business day at 10 p. 
m. the business men and their help are 
so utterly tired and worn out that they 
are heartily glad to close up and es¬ 
cape to their homes. At times droves 
of cattle or sheep are auctioned off, or 
an occasional milch cow, and even 
household goods, vehicles and imple¬ 
ments, but for the most part the horses 
have the day. An occasional street 
faker gets in, but a high license cuts 
out many of these “cheap Johns” and it 
is good riddance. The picture, Fig. 157, 
shows a thin place in the crowd at the 
intersection of Main and High streets 
at the March stock sale. Three horses 
were being offered for sale, though most 
of the trading was done near the livery 
stables and somewhat removed from 
this square. It was a cold, raw day, 
which accounts for the small crowd in 
the open, but there were lots of people 
in town, as was evidenced by the ve¬ 
hicles and by the congestion in the 
stores. w. e. duckwall. 
Ohio. 
Old Gentlemen —Well, my little lad, 
are you going fishing or are you going 
to school ? Little Lad—I dunno yet. 
I'm just a-wrastling with me conscience. 
—Melbourne Australasian. 
making the basement to my present silo 
I drew a circle and dug a trench the 
thickness I wanted my wall. After I 
filled in the grout, I dug out the core, 
cemented the bottom and plastered the 
sides and bottom, and the job was fin¬ 
ished. Now I want to make one 20 
feet deep below ground and 10 feet 
above, and 20 feet in diameter with a 
partition across the center, and have 
the wall six inches thick. If some of 
your readers could devise a plan of dig¬ 
ging a perpendicular trench six inches 
wide and 20 feet deep there would be 
no forms to bother with. If not there 
could be a trench dug just wide enough 
for a man to work in the required depth, 
then take the 20-foot plank that will be 
needed for the partition, stand on end 
close together. The earth core will aid 
in supporting same. They will go half 
way around. Fill in with cement, and 
after it has set enough take them out 
and put in the other half in the same 
manner. If there are any creases caused 
by cracks in planks they can be knocked 
off with trowel before plastering. The 
narrower the planks the less would be 
the cracks. Then the planks need to be 
cleaned and dried, dressed, tongued and 
grooved, ready to use for the partition. 
Next I would dig out the core, and if I 
want any above ground I will build that 
out of cement staves or other material. 
To accommodate the device for ele¬ 
vating silage, I would want the roof 
a little above ground. 
To prevent carbonic acid gas, keep 
a door at the top open, and have a pipe 
close to the silage and extending out 
through the roof above the door. That 
will give good circulation of air. I shall 
use my blower pipe. A silo built in this 
way will lessen the cost of filling won¬ 
derfully. Three men and one team and 
a small gasoline engine where it does 
not have to be elevated, could do the 
work nicely. ralph p. sherman. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
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