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Show The hired labor item amounted 'to 100 days at $2.50 per day and there was an item of something like $25 for hoard at the Jeffs home. Mr. Jeffs has not figured his own labor in the total, but he put In some very strenuous strenu-ous hours himself. Wilhurn Conover and Charles Lar-sen Lar-sen of Ferron, who have the construction construc-tion of most of the silos in the county to their credit, supervised the construction con-struction of the silo and it is, without a doubt, greatly due to their good work that the job was finished as soon and in the workmanlike manner that it was. They are men who thoroughly understand the work and can be highly high-ly recommended to anyone who is planning plan-ning like buildings. They take special pride in the silo just finished as It is the largest yet constructed in the county, it is understood. The building occupies a very commanding position in the Jeffs yard, to the right as you enter town from the north and is an improvement that Castledale may well be proud of. Leo Greenhalgh of Ferron, who sold the S-h. p. gasoline engine for operating the ensilage cutter, was delayed de-layed in getting the engine here in time to do the early part of the cutting, cut-ting, but a couple of smaller engines were hooked up one to the cutter and one to the blower and the work went merrily on. The emergency makeshift, however, did a good service ser-vice in showing that this could be done to good advantage by a couple of farmers who, each having an engine for year-round purposes, could double-up when it came to cutting ensilage. en-silage. The cutter was furnished by the C. W. & M. Co. |