was in 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 2x6 sill was laid on the ground, 2x6 
studding, twelve feet long, erected every two.feet, and a 2x6 
plate put on top. This framework was then sheathed on the 
inside v\ ith a single thickness of unmatched, unplaned, rough 
, I, ’ such as can be bought almost anywhere in the State 
for $12 per thousand. 
, J^he 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. 
, Ihe diit w as tilled in against the sides, and banked up 
to w ithin two feet of the top, except on the lower side, where 
were doors reaching from near the top to within four feet of 
the bottom. 1 bus, 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. 
1 he labor was done by the farm hands and teams, and 
couid as easily be done by any farmer on his own farm. 
1 he bill for material stands as follows: 
240 feet 2x6 for sill and plate. ; 
niS ! eefc 2xfi ’ twelvo feet long, for studding. 
JoO teet rough boards for sides. 
1,728 feet lumber @ $12 per M.,.$20.74 
Nails, lath, and building paper. 7.00 
$27.74 
If the silo had a partition running through the middle, 
dividing it into two pits, each ten by twenty feet, it would 
make and additional cost of about $5. Our silo has two such 
partitions making four pits, each ten feet square, and the 
entire cost of materials was $42. 
Such a silo has a capacity of about sixty-four tons of 
en.Mlage, so that the cost of materials per ton capacity, varies 
from 4o to 65 cents according to the number of partitions. 
Had the hole been two feet deeper, and the sides two feet 
lig lei, w ith one partition, the two pits would then have been 
each, ten by 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 
Ooloiado for less than off cents for each ton capacity. 
A silo twenty feet square, and sixteen feet deep, is large 
