River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-01-13


twelve feet in diameter and feeding
two inches deep each day, the
twelve foot silo will feed about
eighteen cows one day. Fourteen
foot silo feeds twenty-six cows one
day; a sixteen foot silo feeds thirty
three cows one day. If two inches
per day are fed off, one foot high of
silage feeds six days; five foot high
feeds thirty days; thirty-five foot
high of silage feeds seven months
Allowance must be made for settling.
The diameter of the silo is regulat-
ed by the size of the herd. Height
is regulated by the length of the
feeding season.
LOCATION
Make feeding and filling con-
venient.
DEPTH IN THE GROUND
Below the stable floor.
SIZE OF HOLE
This depends upon the nature of
the soil. Where soil is firm it may
be nsed as the outside form, and
the hole is dug accordingly. Where
the soil is loose, the hole must be
dug about two feet larger than re-
quired for the silo to permit get
ting in outside of and ii ghtening
form.
RAISING FORM
A center pole inside for raising
form, and pole outside for raising
DOOR OPENING ALTERNATING WITH
CONCRETE. REINFORCEMENT
Reinforce above ground or from
first door up. Use No. 9 wire
doubled and twisted. Place near
outer surface and fasten to rods
about the doors. The rods should
be tied together about the opening.
COST. GRAVEL
For a silo twelve feet in diameter
we have a circumference of about
thirty-eight feet measuring on the
center line of the wall thickness.
Estimating for a wall six inches
thick, thirty-eignt feet long and one
foot high we require nineteen cubic
feet. For wall thirtyfive feet high
we need about thirty loads of gravel
of one cubic yard each. Estimating
for silo fourteen feet in diameter the
circumference is about forty-fve
feet, estimating on the center line of
the wall thickness. For one six
inch wall one foot high and forty
five feet long we require about
twenty-three cubic feet. For silo
thirty-five feet high we need about
thirty-fve loads of gravel of one
cubic yard each. With the sixteen
foot silo we have circumference of
about fifty feet; estimating for
wall six inches thick, one foot nigh
and fifty feet long we require about
twenty-five cubic feet of gravel, anc
for a height of thirt-five feet we
need about forty loads of gravel
of one cubic yard each.
CEMENT MIXED ONE TO SIX
For this mixture one barrel of
cement is needed to each load of
gravel. The cement can be bought
for ST. Is per barrel. The twelve
foot silo requires thirty barrels of
cement at $1.25 equal to $3.50.
The fourteen foot silo requires
thirty-fve barrels at 81 Is. $44 90
Sixteen foot silo requires fourty
barrels, at 81 Is. $50 90.
The point to be made here is that
the concrete for a sixteen foot silo
costs only $12 so more than that for
a twelve foot silo, while the sixteen
foot silo will feed thirty-three cattle
for the same length of time that
twelve foot silo will feed eighteen
cattle.
A twelve foot silo requires 200
feet of No. 9 wire; IA foot requires
5000 feet; sixteen foot requires $500
feet; the cost of the wire in the silos
we have built was $40 90 per silo.
COST OF sILos WE HAVE BUILT
IncidentalS ......................... olo.UO
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