328 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
their width. The green corn stalks were drawn fresh from the 
field, weighed, and piled on the stack with the buts all brought 
out to the board guides. In laying on the stalks great care was 
taken to keep the top level. This was accomplished by putting in 
thin layers and placing the buts of the second layer over the bent-in 
tops of the first, with the next two layers put on in the same 
way at right angles to the first. These four layers would fill about 
the width of the boards. | 
On the 15th, 6,518 pounds of sorghum was put on. The sorg- 
hum was three feet deep but raised the pile to only 10% feet. 
Then 9,406 pounds of corn were put on the last thing at night 
(Saturday), which raised the stack nearly to the top of the joists. 
The corn was 9 to 12 feet tall and most of it bore pretty well 
developed ears. This fact probably made the stack more solid in 
the middle, hence a little crowning, and combined with the slippery 
character of the sorghum plants caused the top to slide off before 
the weighting could be done the following Monday morning. 
This could not be properly replaced without removing the whole 
stack, so a new foundation was laid exactly like the first and the 
corn and sorghum which slid from No. 1, was put on it in the same 
way as given for building No.1. Enough more corn was put on 
No. 2 from the field to make the whole somewhat more than ten 
feet high. 
Hight or ten inches of straw was strewn over the top and partly 
covered with plank laid at right angles to the improvised timbers 
in the bottom. Three other timbers, each made in the same way 
of plank as those at the bottom, were then laid across the top and 
so braced that they would not tip down when applying pressure, 
and pressure applied by means of chains and the levers. 
A roof with about 80 degrees pitch was then attached to the 
timber by which the pressure was applied so its weight was added 
to the pressure obtained from the levers. | 
Silo No. 1 was simply covered with about two feet of straw and 
a board roof laid on without further pressure. , 
At the the time silo No. 2, was being built up from the material 
which had begun to heat up in No. 1, the temperature was taken in 
many places showing that the highest degree reached and indicated 
_ by the thermometer at the time was 134° F. Exposure to the 
