Show INCREASE OF CEMENT SILOS MANY EXCELLENT TYPES GIVING SPLENDID SATISFACTION SATISFACTION TION TO ENTERPRISING FARMERS OF MICHIGAN BY J T A JEFFERY lIi 1 Coll ho be roughly defined enned as immoderately fermented succulent feed lug Ins material The Tho succulent materIal Is i usually corn In this country Other materials sometimes used aro green lIel field peas cow pea so soy b beans ans horse hOlse bean beamis alone or with corn Green n ry rye wheat oats and others or of the aro sometimes used Sorno Somo practIcal u ers thInk certain or of time the legumes such as clover field peas cow pens peas or Ol orsoy soy beam mixed with corn make malto a much moro more than does docs corn cOIn alone Three r reasons are of o cred for this preference 1 Stock enjoy enJo this mixed 1 ensilage better 2 Stock thrive hotter helleI upon It ItI 3 I Such an en lInse ches mOIe nearly a balanced ration Time Tho material Is narl nearly always cut c ut Into short lengthS before heln lut Into nto i time thc silo For sl reasons It ItIs Its Is i s better beUr to cut It bUL 1011 It Is not nol tive that It be so 0 cut In earl practice tee tice not even corn was cut In Time The best Is produced when the all air can he kept most completely from coming In contact with tIme the on sued material A silo ma may be defined as a deep chamber with airtiGht walls In which green fodders are preserved In a mildly fermented condition for future futuro feeding In a good silo the lie wall wail should he be per all air tight air will get fl flInto Into nto i tIm tho ensilage anti promote molding an and rotting The Tho Inner or of the w vall should be perpendicular and smooth Where here these qualities are arc lacking open spaces space are almot sure to occur time the ensilage and tho wa wall or of tho silo as time the ensilage settles Time The all air will work Into these spaces with time the effects above aboe Time Thc walls should be stron strong and Ir If the they do not nol possess qualities tho they will crack oi 01 spring and air Ill be admitted to effect time tho spoiling of oC the ensilage I n nT T 1 m c I J 0 8 of l mood floor loor of n mm bl block k ilIa lIn nn en the 0 turin turm ot of Wells neat neur Time rho b be non conducting warm to pro prevent nt ox ex exten ten io freezing or of tho outer portions of the ensilage In cold won ther Such portions nH as to Ue tle wn wails lis by are likely to spoil Ir if they thaw tiia out slowly BuIlt of ton hrick oi 01 cement him walls may be e mado sufficIently stron strong fJ i o 1 p f lJ 1 r rj T ull j j l lk X s l lJJ k JJ i tY C 4 ro of 01 nil mind terms If or of Potter 1111 silo till tie ratio K ii 11 Inner turin furlO sni to a perfect silage tIme tho round silo being time most popular t IH rite rhe shows a vIew or of the cement sio or of 1 L APor 0 Por Portel tel tar AdrIan lich Mich It has hns an InsIde dIameter of bt 12 reel feet anti and stands 36 16 feet hll high h above time the loot Hool The loor stands 1 4 let fet the surface of time the ground and G C inches above aboc the ottom of the The lower three feet or of time the rounda Ion Is t cement the upper lw two feet ell io s or concrete The Tho foundation Is 10 I Inches wide at the top and broadens inard and outward to about 17 out at time the base ase time thc floor having a of only 11 feet ho silo all above aboe ground has hns a mini uni uniform form o of eIght inches and Is unique In Its construction Forms are arc used In ItS constructIon but time the Is rendered hollow first b by li use or of forums and second b by time the building into the tho wall vail of tI tiers n or of No 2 three Inch drain ran tiles s The illustration rep rc it a horizontal or of orthe the It shows not nol only the tho nr ar or of the tue lo and other hollow spaces but niso the thc outer and Inner lorms fornis the tho plan or of time the door frame and the manner manlier or of time the walls will ith the wire cables Time The hollow spaces formed b by time the tile anti by the tho forms arc aro continuous The tiles be begin ln six reel feet above oe time the Coun foundation form Corm splices lying helow time tHe lile TIme rho form spaces arc continuous from rein foundation to time lop Oi of lit wail The limiter form was built of 2 h iy hy by 26 G pieces ploos of pine upon two cIrcles or of elm clam Each or of th s circles was hullt up tip Of 2 b by 3 1 Inch pieces es joints with h 3 Inch All of those these pieces 5 or nC of 01 one ODD of 01 U used ld to lo IlIr 11 It t to lace wIro ero cut to circles o of proper radius rho rhe outer orm orai liS built of 5 j by II Inch shee ng to perpendicular ribs I 1 by 1 Inch Placed one foot Coot apart This form Is h by 2 by 4 Inch strips outsIde an and at the en ends s o of time the rIbs Those forms wOre clamped Into place h by menns of two Inch holts hoit In each form orm as shown In Fig 9 Time frame for Cor a continuous doorway Is made of oC by G C oak oal bridge g with a 1 b by n I Inch strip on tIme thc Inner edge a against time the cement which strip also aho nS as n a for forthe forthe the doors An Inch strip on time the out outside side cJe or of time the piece makes malc time of thu door frame to time thc of tho wall Crosspieces or of time the same saine are set setIn setin In the tho frame rame three feet reet apart center to center Tle InsIde wIdth or of time the frame CIame Is 2 22 Timo Tho rame titus thus con constructed constructed was set up so 0 that tha t time the sill stood ono ormo foot ahoo time the foundatIon properly braced and so as built Into place b 1 C ot of silo 11 Coun lallon with floor at al of 01 For jor wire cables were built buill Into Inlo the wall vall at of ob eighteen inc mannel of stretch stretching In ing timo tho cables lri Is shown In tho ration Jim In tile wall wali four No r wires wore were twisted for Ol tills tub purpose In iii the tipper wall nil two No i r Or No NI P wires Ires were wem ted to together ether |