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THE RURAL NKW-VORKKK 
April 27, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
INCOME FROM “ HOTHOUSE ” EWES. 
The Cornell Experiment Station at 
Ithaca, N. Y., has issued an excellent 
bulletin (No. 309) on “Hothouse 
Lambs.” Besides giving the facts about 
the production of these lambs the bulle¬ 
tin gives some figures to show what in¬ 
dividual ewes have earned as income. 
The ewe shown at Fig. 202 is a pure¬ 
bred Dorset. In five years she produced 
nine lambs and raised eight of them 
early enough to sell at hothouse prices. 
These eight lambs sold for $73.52 and 
made an average gain of a little over 
half a pound per day. 
The ewe shown at Fig. 203 is a Ram- 
bouillet. She raised seven lambs out of 
eight born in seven years. They gained 
a little under half a pound per day, and 
sold for $42.49. A grade Dorset ewe 
produced 10 lambs in eight seasons. 
They brought $94, which is the best 
record in the Cornell flock. This ewe 
raised every lamb and produced milk 
enough to enable these lambs to gain .56 
pounds per day. Another ewe raised 
JiAMBOUlLLET EWE. Fig. 203. 
seven or eight lambs in six years, and 
they sold for $46.48. _ Still another pro¬ 
duced 10 lambs in six years and seven 
of them sold as “hothouse lambs” for 
$47.53. 
Those were exceptional cases. In the 
Cornell flock were 84 ewes. Figuring 
the average length of time these ewes 
have been at work, the number of lambs 
and the income, the annual income per 
sheep is $6 beside the wool. If you fig¬ 
ure 10 sheep to one cow you get the 
basis for a comparison. 
THE LATH AND PLASTER SILO. 
On page 440 is an invitation to dis¬ 
cuss the different kinds of silos. Here 
is ' one which is finding much favor in 
this section. Two by six hemlock is 
used for studding; these are notched 
in one inch deep and four wide every 26 
inches. Then they are set up every 
16 inches on the foundation except the 
pair intended for door frames, which 
are set two feet apart. Around this 
framework and in these notches are 
bent elm hoops four inches wide and 
half inch thick, two of these to the 
hoop, which leaves the hoop just even 
with the outer edge of the studding. 
These hoops form the ladder. On the 
inside it is lathed and plastered. One 
may use stick lath, sheet lath or what 
is more commonly used here, 1J4 inch 
elm may be ripped up into lath. Two 
coats of plaster are given, the last one 
made pretty rich, and a final whitewash¬ 
ing of pure cement is given. Of course 
it is understood that the upper tier of 
studding is treated just like the lower 
one, giving a two-foot lap to the stud¬ 
ding and spiking well. Thus for a 30- 
foot silo you would want 16-foot stud¬ 
ding. On the outside we put galvanized 
building iron of about 28 gauge. This 
makes a covering which is not very ex¬ 
pensive, and properly put on looks very 
neat, and of course needs no paint. 
Against the studding used for door 
frames is nailed something like one 
by five nailed on the outside of the 
studding and the edge next the silo. 
The doors set against these, and are 
held in place by the silage. The doors 
are made of matched soft pine doubled 
one thickness horizontal and one per¬ 
pendicular. The roof can be made as 
desired. We place 2x12 plank set on 
edge across the top of the silo, leav¬ 
ing a space in the middle about four 
feet wide; from these planks to the 
upper ends of the studding are nailed 
boards, and these are covered with 
building iron like the silo. For the 
center doors are made and hinged to 
the plank so they can be thrown over 
back, allowing one to stay in the silo 
until it is full and even heaped up. These 
doors are covered with building iron 
and you have a silo which will not dis¬ 
grace any set of farm buildings. 
Now as to cost; this will depend upon 
how much of the material you buy and 
how much of the work you do yourself. 
If you have the elm you can get out 
your own hoops and lath and even the 
studding, although the elm studding has 
a tendency to warp and makes hard 
work to get them straight. If you are 
something of a mason and carpenter 
and have the time you can do nearly 
all the work yourself. We had every¬ 
thing to buy and were in such shape 
with our other work that we hired near¬ 
ly everything except the team work. 
Our silo is 10 feet six inches on the 
inside by 30 feet and cost us, including 
foundation roof and chute, about $150. 
I am sure one could be built like it if 
one had the timber and the time for 
$100. Our nearest neighbor put up one 
at the same time, and the same size, 
except that his is 10 feet on the out¬ 
side. His is a wooden tub silo, and he 
estimates that his cost him complete 
$200. Now these silos have been in 
use long enough so we know a few 
things about them. They keep silage 
well, they look well, they are durable, 
and we can be sure of the quality of 
the material which goes into them. 
Year by year the staves in our tub 
silos get poorer. When one sees a stave 
with four inches of heart and two 
inches of sap on each side with the 
bark on the outer edge of the sap, he 
can guess about what kind of a tree 
that stave came from. The lath and 
plaster sheet-iron covered silo is a 
“comer” in this section. H. c. van wie. 
Lenawee Co., Michigan. 
ANOTHER UNDERGROUND SILO. 
I see on page 440 an article from 
Ralph P. Sherman of Van Buren Co., 
Mich., speaking in favor of an under¬ 
ground silo. I also saw the correspond¬ 
ence of Mr. Leigh and others, and I 
am myself inclined to believe that the 
underground silo has advantages over, 
the overhead ones where it is possible 
to so construct them, as it is here in 
most places, because water around my 
barn drains down 50 feet and therefore 
would not force through into the silage. 
It would be much easier to fill, it would 
not freeze, nor yet sour from violent 
fermentation, and therefore would keep 
better over Summer, and the silo would 
be safer every way, especially from fire. 
Then it would be cheaper and easier to 
construct either round, square, oblong 
or elliptical, and do as Mr. Sherman 
suggests, put in a plank partition and 
put in two stays with a groove in each 
to receive the ends of partition plank, 
and eliminate the sharp corners. I in¬ 
tend putting one down this Summer for 
a trial, and my plan of procedure < is 
like this: Dig out the shape and size 
of silo, outside measure, two or three 
feet deep; then build a form with staves 
for a round or elliptical shape two or 
three feet high, and pack ground tight 
around outside. There should be some 
kind of frame outside to nail these 
staves to keep them from getting out 
of place. Then hang another form in¬ 
side six inches from this first form, fill 
between these forms with concrete, and 
the first filling should be well rein¬ 
forced with wire or a good hoop, or 
both. Now let this set well till hard, 
then excavate another two or three feet, 
and carefully let the hardened concrete 
wall down so another round can be 
filled in the forms, and let this set and 
harden while excavating. When hard 
enough, undermine and let down as be¬ 
fore, till it is down far enough, after 
which the upward building can be done 
in sections much as I built my barn 
wall with two forms 12 feet long and 
3 feet high, going round and round. 
As to the carbonic acid gas, I cannot 
say, but Mr. Leigh did not complain of 
any. Neither did the professor who 
used one and told him of it. Should 
some gather, a handful of powder 
wrapped in paper and a foot of fuse 
in it lighted and dropped down will 
blow the gas out. john brudy. 
Cheboygan Co., Mich. 
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WITH 
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