The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

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struction was very good and at the
time he thought it was as cheap as
one could safely build silo. He put
it about six feet into the ground and
built the basement of solid concrete,
including the floor, then built the walls
of the silo the same as an ordinary
house, 2x4 studding put upright ana
short 2x4 pieces between about four
feet apart. On the outside he used
ordinary S-inch boards, surfaced on
the outside, and finished the outside
with common batting. This made
very neat structure when finished,
with a round roof and painted in red
mineral paint
The inside was built as alright as
possible. He used half-inch lumber
four inches wide, mailing each strip
horizontally and bending as he went
along. Then he put on a good quality
of building paper and again built up
the wall with half-inch lumber. rms
made a solid and excellent sllo, Dut
after using it two seasons the owner
came to the conclusion it was too ex-
pensive and it's construction too elap-
orat. Aside from the expense, the only
fault he found with it was that the
silage would not settle so we'll as 1t
should, this being due to the fact
that the cracks between the halflncn
strips were horizontal and served TO
hold some of the silage, thus pre-
venting the mass from sliding down
readily. He thought that by putting
the innermost strips vertical he could
secure better results. Very little ST.
lage spoiled in that structure and sell
dom had any bad OdOr. He used corn
entirely for silage.
After two years the builder OF this
silo wanted another, to secure greater
capacity He selected a site along
side of the old one, but determined
to make it as cheaply as possible,
largely as an experiment. The hoor
was built of cement on the ground.
He purchased 16foot common fence
boards, secured supply OF good gal
vanized wire and some long half-lnch
strips OF lumber for making the hoops.
Before building the floor he built up
false frame inside for the Workmen,
and out of some wide boards made
two frames whose outside was circular
and the same diameter as the silo was
to be. One of these he laid on the
bottom and the other was put at the
top. to serve as a guide in rounding
the structure. Proper floor braces
we're put in, on top of which the &C.
ment floor was to go later. Now he
put the fence boards upright and COM
pleted the inside wall, mailing only at
bottom and top to the frame work. He
paid no attention to joints, but took
pains that every board used was
straight Next he hung heavy tar
paper from top to bottom on the out
side of the wall just completed. A
second time he put up fence boards,
taking care that the outside boards
would cover the joints made by the
inside boards, thus breaking joints"
Single nails were used to hold the
two thicknesses of boards together, it
being his aim to avoid making holes
through the wall with long nails.
At the bottom and top, on the inside,
he made the wall tight by the use of
the half-inch lumber, putting double
thickness hoop at both points. The
same was done on the outside, and at
the bottom on outside, he drove stakes
deep in the ground to serve as braces
against the spreading of the bottom.
Wire hoops were put on the outside,
the wires being doubled and pulled