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was ill the corners and on the sides. The dirt was dumped 
as near as possible to the upper end and the two sides. 
Inside this hole a 2x() sill was laid on the ground, 2x6 
studding, twelve feet long, erected eveiw two feet, and a 2x6 
plate put on top. This framework was then sheathed on the 
inside with a single thickness of unmatched, unplaned, rough 
boards, such as can be bought almost anywhere in the State 
for $12 per thousand. 
The inside was lined with a single thickness of tarred 
building paper, held in place by perpendicular slats. The 
floor was made by wetting and tramping the clay at the 
bottom, while the stars of heaven made an excellent and 
very cheap roof. 
The dirt was tilled in against the sides, and banked up 
to within two feet of the top, except on the lower side, y^diere 
were doors reaching from near the top to within four feet of 
the bottom. Thus, our silo consists of a hole in the ground, 
lined with one thickness of inch boards and building paper, 
floored with dirt and without any roof. 
The labor was done by the farm hands and teams, and 
could as easily be done ])y any farmer on his own farm. 
The bill for material stands as follows: 
‘ 240 feet 2x6 for sill and plate. 
528 feet 2x6, twelve feet long, for studding. 
1)60 feet rough boards for sides. 
1,728 feet lumber @ $12 per M.,.$20.74 
Nails, lath, and Imilding paper. 7.00 
$27.74 
If the silo had a partition running through the middle, 
dividing it into two pits, each ten by twentj" feet, it would 
make and additional cost of al)Out $5. Our silo has two such 
partitions, making four pits, each ten feet square, n.nd the 
entire cost of materials was $42. 
Such a silo has a capacity of about sixty-four tons of 
ensilage, so that the cost of materials per ton capacity, varies 
from 48 to 65 cents, according to the number of partitions. 
Had the hole been two feet deeper, and the sides two feet 
higher, with one partition, the two pits would then have been 
each, ten l)y twenty feet, and sixteen feet deep, with a total 
capacity of one-hundred tons of ensilage; while the cost of 
materials would have been $44. Thus, a silo can be built in 
Colorado for less than 50 cents for each ton capacity. 
A silo twenty feet square, and sixteen feet deep, is large 
