Show pit silos are popular in feeding live stock by WALTER 0 WARD extension architect kansas state agricultural college kansas far farmers are binding ape tie use artlie bit tilo silo most economical in their cattle feeding enterprise antei prise the pit silo should have a concrete or masonry hias onry collar beginning three foel feet or more inore below ground to avoid frost action netlon and extending three or four feet above ground to increase theca capacity the wall above ground will also serve as a protecting wall to keep animals from fallin falling ginto into the silo when it la Is empty below the collar the silo should be dug dilg with smooth true walls and plas with a mortar consisting of one part cement to three parts of clean coarse solid sand to tills mixture should be added hydrated time lime equalling 10 per cent of the cement used if the ground shows any tendency toward caving it Is advisable to use reinforcement such as woven wire fencing or hail ball screen about the only serious disadvantage to a pit silo Is in the removal of the sli age which necessitates I 1 the use of some kind of a hoist hoisl if the hoist Is made with sufficient capacity that only one trip into the silo Is required at each filling tills does not offer such it n problem |