New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-07

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How to Build. a Silo.

How to BuiId.a Silo.
| Answering a New York correspond.
ent concerning the best way to build a
! silo, the thickness OF the walls, etc,
the Country Gentleman says:
It is little difficult to give a salts
factory answer, as the inquiry is SO
obscure. If the::kind OF wall had been
stated, the answer could have been
made to the point. As there are hall
a dozen kinds of silo walls, the only
way is to give a general answer, and il
the reply is a miss, the inquiry can be
made again, and more definite. The
Importance is not so much in the
thickness of the wall as in the charac-
ter OF the wall itself. The first thing
IS to make it absolutely as near air
proof as possible, as on these two
conditions, rests the success Of the un-
dertaking. If the question about thick
ness refers to the pro ection against
frost, this object is accomplished
by having a deadair space in the
walls if built Of wood, and if
OF stone build them hollow, tying
the two walls together frequently with
long stones, to make them firm. It
is more to be supposed that the silo
is to be built OF wood, but in or out Of
the barn is a question. If in the
|. barn, the thing resolves itself into a
big box In q corner. in which event
the silo will not need an outside pro-
lection Or q dead-air space, as the
barn affords all this that is needed
from cold or storm. II the barn
frame is a strong one to "back' the
silo, the stud ding need not be more
than 2x4 inch stuff, resting against
the girths; but where the silo walls
leave the barn frame to cross the
open space, they will need to be at
least 2x6 or 2x8 inch material, and
bridging" all the center so as to
strengthen them against springing
out
If you should shingle cell or plaster
the silo, you will need little stronger
frame than where the inside is double
boarded. II you lath and plaster, it
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which are made of inch lum Der furro w
ed into parallel grooves, SO that
clinehes are afforded for the plaster,
and by the use of this kind OF lath no
sheathing is needed; and springing Of
the walls is prevented by using more
studding, or setting the 2x6 studs 20
inches apart, and then setting a 2x4
between them.
The danger OF freezing pit of ensil-
age, if in "a wood en- silo, is a very
small part of the risk and it may
be accepted as settled that the ensi-
age isso protected by adead-air space
and two thieknesses Of lumber that
freezing is not more than a remote
danger, and, as rule, only to the ex-
tent Of chilling q thin layer on the top
and this can be avoided by having an
old canvas to use during the coolest
weather to spread over the surface,
when the thermometer gets below re-
10.
In making the dead-air space in a.
a silo, there should be a way to give
the space ventilation at all times
when there is no danger of frost, so as
to keep the wall as dry as possible,
and the best way to do this is to have
the outside bottom boards hinged,
and the outside board under the plate
the same way; then this space will dry
out, and the decay that would other
wise soon set in would be arrested,
and the physical" life OF the silo pro-
longed.
Where the silo is built in a barn,
and inside of the walls, and it is inn