— 868 Report OF THE Farm SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
have accommodation for elsewhere. Where all the food is 
weighed and every animal has its ration separate from its fellows 
more room is required than in ordinary feeding, especially where 
the scales must be used for every item. 
Water is brought to the floor and can be drawn into a pail and 
weighed, or the animals can be watered by lifting the cover in 
its manger for that section of the continuous water box for that 
line of stanchions.. Incidentally, too, there will be the object lesson 
open to all our visitors and readers in regard to the disposal 
and care of manure. This has been detailed above and need not 
be repeated here. 
Third, to provide a suitable place for some of our meteorological 
instruments. 
Up to the present time the sunshine recorder has been from 
place to place with the result of breaking the record as may be 
seen in this report. The anemometer can only be attended to by 
an observer daily invading that portion of the station building set 
apart for the private use of the Director’s family. 
Hence the adaptation of the barn to this use by providing stair- 
ways and inclosing a room in the north cupola which can become 
the meteorological room of the station. 
The construction of the silo is detailed below. It has been 
found that silos may not only be filled and their contents properly 
cured without weighting, but that wooden walls are better than 
' stone for preserving silage. 
In the construction of this silo the stone walls of the basement 
were used so far as they went, then wood was used for the 
remainder. This use of the two kinds of material will give the 
station a chance for an annual trial of both kinds, under the same 
conditions. 
CONSTRUCTION OF SILO. 
The stone wall is 24 feet high on the interior sides and 113 feet 
high on the exterior sides. The bottom consists of 6 inches of 
stones, through which a line of tile connects with a ditch, and 3 
inches of cement made up with two parts cement to three of gravel. 
The stone sides are plastered up smooth from the floor to the 
wooden wall. The upright timbers of the silo are 28 feet long by 
5x10 inches, set edgewise to the silo, 3 feet 8 inches apart with 
