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THE IOWA SILO FOR EASTERN FARMS. 
Within the last few years a silo 
known as the “Iowa silo” has came into 
use in the Middle West. This silo, get¬ 
ting its name from the Iowa Experi¬ 
ment Station from whence it originated, 
was first constructed by the Experi¬ 
ment Station in 1908. Since that time 
and especially within the last tv/o years 
it has gained great fame among the 
farmers of the Middle West. 
The Iowa silo is constructed of vitri¬ 
fied hollow clay building blocks. These 
blocks are curved so as to make a 
perfect circle. In this way the mortar 
joints are kept small and the inside 
surface is kept smooth, which is very 
essential to silo construction. The 
blocks, which are 4 x 8 x 12 inches, are 
laid so as to form a wall five inches 
in thickness and having a perpendicular 
height of eight inches. These blocks 
give a dead-air space in the wall which 
helps to keep out the air and frost, 
and at the same time serves to keep the 
silage moist. By careful inspection it 
lias been proved that silage stored in 
Iowa silos keep as well during the 
entire season as that in any other silo. 
A very important factor in the con¬ 
struction of masonry silos is to make 
the wall strong and rigid. This type 
of silo, as designed, is reinforced well 
enough to stand several times the 
amount of pressure that is brought to 
bear upon it. 
The doors which are in common use 
are of the continuous type. The door 
jamb as originally designed consists of 
a concrete column, well reinforced, on 
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either side of the doorway. Grooves 
extend the entire length of the columns 
into which the doors are placed. Some 
of the tile firms are now putting out 
steel door frames, and others door 
jambs made of the regular tile. How¬ 
ever, this is a minor detail so long as 
convenience and air-tightness are well 
considered. 
This silo, if well constructed, will 
no doubt stand for ages, and in the 
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meanwhile will need scarcely any re¬ 
pairs. Other types of silos are con¬ 
stantly in need of repair and attention. 
The cost of the Iowa silo need not 
exceed that of any other good silo. The 
tile are, to some extent, being manu¬ 
factured in the East, and cement and 
sand are easily obtained anywhere. The 
farmer is not dependent on anyone for 
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patents or middlemen’s profits, and 
therefore by the aid of a competent 
mason can erect his own silo. As 
Eastern manufacturers see the demand 
for these tile they will soon supply it. 
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment 
Station issues a bulletin on this type 
of silo which may be obtained by writ¬ 
ing them at Ames. b. r. m. 
Iowa State College. 
ONE MAN WHO PAID OUT. 
In the month of February, 1900, we 
sold our farm of 23 acres, situated in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, for $3,000 to 
Daniel Affolter. Air. Affolter had been 
married just one year, and during that 
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time had saved $300 mining coal. His 
wife persuaded him to buy the farm, as 
she wanted to keep him out of the coal 
mine. He paid us the $300 down. We 
took his individual note for $700, and 
he bought something over $100 at my 
sale, for which I took his individual 
note. We had placed a mortgage on the 
farm, shortly before selling it, for $2,000, 
when we bought an 80-acre farm here 
in Indiana. Mr. Affolter assumed the 
mortgage of $2,000. On September 8, 
1900, he paid us $100 and interest. On 
December 26, 1900, he paid us another 
$100 and interest, besides paying in the 
amount of his purchase at our sale. The 
balance of $500 with interest he paid 
before the first day of January, 1903, 
and in the meantime had erected two 
greenhouses, each of them 30 x 100 feet. 
Since then he has erected six more 
greenhouses, each 30 x 100 feet, giving 
him 28.000 square feet of space. The 
boiler room is separate and is 40x40 feet 
square, containing three’ boilers, two 
large ones and one small one, all using 
the hot water system. The small boiler 
is used to heat the house. The house, 
barn and greenhouses are lighted with 
acetylene light. The real estate is 
valued on the tax duplicate at $13,400, 
and his personal property at $700. His 
sales the last year amounted to $7,556.51. 
He employs five hands in the Winter 
and several more in Summer. His wife, 
who deserves as much credit as Mr. 
Affolter. handles the financial part of 
the business, and each hand is paid off 
every evening. Besides a good home 
market, they ship to Pittsburgh. Pa., and 
Columbus, Ohio. He uses all the ma¬ 
nure he can purchase in addition to 
what he makes, and sows cow peas and 
Crimson clover to plow under, and uses 
some commercial fertilizer besides. He 
keeps four horses, one cow and three 
brood sows. The pigs are fed the waste 
from the garden. He does not say what 
he values his property at, if for sale, 
but it would be considerably over the 
appraised value. e. g. m. 
Indiana. 
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