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THE RURAIb NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CONCRETE OR BRICK SILO. 
II. S. II., Bridgehampton, N. Y .—I intend 
to erect a silo and sink it 10 feet in the 
ground. Many farmers about here have 
gone down eight feet, and they say when 
they put up another it will be 10 feet 
deep. If I build the sides under ground of 
concrete I will have to buy lumber and 
make forms, this will cost something extra. 
Some farmers have built theirs of brick, 
same as a cellar to a house, and covered it 
over with a strong concrete wash, but aftcr- 
a year’s wear the concrete wash breaks off 
in spots, taking the face of the brick with 
it. Can you tell me, if I build my walls 
of brick and mortar, would it keep the si¬ 
lage well without the concrete wash? I 
have always understood that a brick would 
take up a large amount of water. 
Ans. —The acid in the silage eats into 
the concrete, and from year to year a 
light wash of water-lime cement is 
necessary to keep the walls smooth. 
With this yearly treatment no serious 
damage to the walls will be done. The 
trouble with brick and mortar without 
the wash is that the walls will be rough 
very likely, and more serious still, the 
acid will eat into the mortar between 
the bricks just as it eats into the wash, 
and that will soon spoil the whole wall. 
If you want solid concrete below the 
ground and wish to avoid buying lum¬ 
ber for a form, it is entirely practical 
to use the staves from which the part 
above ground is to be built. That is a 
little rought on their looks but if, after 
the cement is set, the staves are well 
cleaned, it will do them no permanent 
harm. After the coating of tar or oil 
has been applied on the inside of the silo 
and it has been painted on the outside, 
you will never detect that the staves 
had been used. 
Next to solid concrete good cemgnt 
blocks are best for underground con¬ 
struction, and they cost less than the 
solid concrete. Bricks will take up some 
water, and unless they are first-class 
and high-priced they will take up a 
great deal. Ordinary bricks will ab¬ 
sorb about 25 per cent of their weight 
of water. The best brick will absorb 
about five per cent. A good coating of 
asphalt or some similar waterproofing 
substance on the outside, however, will 
prevent much water being taken up. 
Such a waterproofing coating should be 
applied on the outside anyway, no mat¬ 
ter what material is used. 
The advantages of the blocks over 
the brick are that being larger, the cost 
of laying them is less, while, because 
of their being hollow, there is a great 
saving of material over any other form 
of construction. A wall of blocks well 
laid is fully as strong and as satisfac¬ 
tory as a brick wall. The inside of this 
underground part of the silo should be 
brushed over every year with a light 
wash of cement to keep the walls 
smooth and protect the joints. The 
concrete blocks may be bought ready 
made, of course, but it might be ad¬ 
visable to make them, although it would 
be a hopeless job to try to do it with¬ 
out a machine made for that purpose. 
Such a machine costs about $18 which 
is probably not much more than a form 
for solid concrete would cost you, while 
the saving in material over the solid 
concrete wall would be considerable. 
The machine, moreover, might be rented 
to others or sold when you are through, 
thus receiving the use of it for very lit¬ 
tle money. It would make a valuable 
machine to have around under any cir¬ 
cumstances as blocks may be turned 
out indefinitely for any of the multi¬ 
tude of purposes for which they are 
very useful on the farm. One man can 
turn out about one hundred blocks a 
day. R. P. c. 
FRAUDS IN BUYING EGGS. 
We have had complaints from people who 
bought hatching eggs and felt that they 
were cheated. In some cases they were, 
but there is another side to this business. 
There have been stories of men who bought 
eggs and made all sorts of complaints in 
order to get more eggs free. It is fair to 
give both sides, so we print the following: 
We received an order for 144 eggs 
which we sent by express the following 
day. Our guarantee was 75% fertile. 
Ten days later we were notified that 
only 30% were fertile. This seemed 
very queer, as the same eggs were 
placed in our machine the same day and 
showed better than 95% fertility. To 
make our customer satisfied we sent 
him 144 more eggs, and at the end of 
10 days were again notified that only 
a few of the eggs were fertile. 
The writer then wrote that still an¬ 
other lot would be sent in a day or 
so. In the meantime I took the train 
for the town that this man lived in and 
after a few inquiries found he was in 
the agricultural lime business, called on 
him and purchased two tons of lime, 
paying cash. I casually glanced out 
of the window and complimented him 
on the appearance of some chickens he 
had in his yard. I asked if he had 
any baby chicks for sale, and was 
pleased to hear that he had a hatch 
just off of something over 100 chicks 
from eggs purchased from us. He gave 
me a price and I said I would take 
them. He asked where to send them 
and almost fell out of his chair when 
he found that his game was over. We 
compromised by his taking 1,000 eggs 
next year and paying for them in ad¬ 
vance. He also paid cash for the two 
lots we had already sent him, and the 
tihird lot which we were to ship in a 
few days. I only write this article be¬ 
cause of one which appeared in The 
R. N.-Y. of May 4th, which spoke oi 
the liability of the custom hatchery for 
eggs sent to him to be hatched. 
Here is another incident. A member 
of the New York Stock Exchange 
purchased some eggs from us and then 
had us hatch them for him. We sent 
him a good hatch and received a letter 
in two days from his farmer stating 
that they had arrived in excellent con¬ 
dition—only two or three dead, that he 
had never seen a finer lot of chicks, and 
that he expected to raise every one of 
them. Two days later I received a let¬ 
ter from the broker stating that the 
chicks had arrived in miserable condi¬ 
tion, many dead and the rest were 
dying. He wanted me to cut him bill in 
half. I sent him a copy of his farmers’ 
letter and received his check the second 
day following. Now relative to the 
article of May 4th. A custom hatcher 
must see that all eggs sent him are 
properly incubated and if they are not 
it is up to the hatchery to make good 
the loss, and I consider that a 66%% 
hatch is a fair return and that our 
prices for day-old chicks to be a fair 
valuation, unless they are fancy eggs 
and a fancy price is set on them at the 
time they are placed in the incubator 
and in this case we charge accordingly. 
B. M. 
DOES THE SILO PAY ? 
The dairy professor, and the dairy farmer 
in many of the more progressive dairy re¬ 
gions.- assume that this question was set¬ 
tled long ago, but they need not travel 
long on a farmers’ institute force to learn 
that in the minds of many farmers it is 
still an undecided problem. This condition 
is not limited to poor farming communi¬ 
ties, but seems just as likely to be found 
in localities favored with a fertile soil and 
excellent farming opportunities. It was in 
such a locality that I heard a farmer 
quoted as saving that if he did not have a 
silo be should not build one, but that hav¬ 
ing it he feels it better to use it. In some 
of the more fertile counties of Pennsyl¬ 
vania it is not uncommon for silos to re¬ 
main unfilled. 
The chief reason for this seems to be the 
cost of filling. Another reason lies in the 
somewhat general belief, experiment sta¬ 
tions to the contrary notwithstanding, that 
the grain part of the corn yields less re¬ 
sults if put in the silo than when fed in 
other ways. The cost of filling seems 
heavier from the fact that it comes all at 
once. That it is expensive and a big job 
no one with experience can deny. The ex¬ 
pense, too, is likely to be greater in com¬ 
munities where silos are least numerous, 
since there the opportunities for hiring 
machines to do the work may not be so 
good, and there is not the same incentive 
for exchange of help among the farmers 
themselves. Yet if carefully compared with 
the cost of shocking, husking and handling 
the stover, which may continue on for 
months, that of putting the whole product 
in the silo will usually be found to be ma¬ 
terially less. If the farmer can command 
his own outfit, filling more slowly and 
within his own working force, some of the 
troublesome features are eliminated. The 
loss of grain for separate feeding can be 
such in part by planting thinly enough to 
get good ear development, then going 
through and picking off the better and 
more mature ears before harvesting. Four¬ 
teen loads of ears were gathered in this 
way on our own farm the past season, 
with still a liberal amount of grain left 
for the silo. If part of the corn is allowed 
to mature thoroughly sound ears may be 
obtained and the stalks cared for quickly 
and cheaply by putting them into the silo. 
These will afford excellent material for 
the early Fall and- Winter feeding. If very 
dry, water should be added at filling time. 
That the silo offers some decided advan¬ 
tages cannot be denied. The corn crop is 
the best forage producing crop on the farm, 
and the silo makes it possible to grow and 
care for large quantities of it. Every dairy¬ 
man who has fed it knows the favorable 
results shown in the pail and in the gen¬ 
eral health and condition of the animals. 
Investigations have shown that in no other 
way, under average conditions, can the 
losses in harvesting and storing be kept 
as low as by the use of the silo. The fact 
that the work is done and the ground 
cleared for other uses early in the Fall is 
a point of decided advantage in many cases. 
These advantages which the silo offers 
ought not to be overlooked by the man who 
is still in the doubting class. 
Pennsylvania. FRED W. CARD. 
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