Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-16
The TENNESSEE
WOOD.HOOP SILO.
Its Advantages Explained BY a
tennessee Specialist in
Dairy Farming
HUNDRED TON SILO FOR S1OO
If Farmer Desires a Satisfactory,
Cheap, Homemade sllo, No Better
Form Can Be Recommended for
Temporary Purposes.

At lease 900 silos we're built on Ten
nessee farms in 1916, and there are
probably 5000 or more now in use,
thruout the State.
The farmer who owns as many as
ten COWS or ten head of beef cattle
can not afford to be without a silo OF
some kind,
silos have been built successfully OF
a great many materials-wood, con-
crete, brick, stone, tile and metal. Al
most any sllo which is alright will
preserve silage, but 1t is advisable for
one to build as substantially as pos
sible.
With the growing interest in silos
and silage there has come an In
creased demand for a satisfactory,
cheap, homemade silo. The wood
hoop silo probably originated at Scots
vile, N. Y, where the first one of this
kind of which we have any record, was
built in 1894. In the Sweetwater Val
ley and In other sections of East Ten.
nessee, a type of silo commonly known
here as the Tennessee Wood-hoop
Silo" has been used for about fifteen
years. It is now found in various parts
of Tennessee, and is being built in
practically every southern state. 1t Is
built of pine flooring, with wood hoops
around tie outside, and is modihca-
ton of the original type.
Advantages Of Wood-Hoop siIo.
The Tennessee Wood-hoop Silo has
several advantages over the iron-hoop
silo. and other forms, chief among
which are the following:
The cost is very low. l have super
vised the erection of number OF
wood-hoop silos, the average cost OF
which has been approximately sl.OO
per ton capacity
Material is easily obtained. 1t may
be obtained from a lumber dealer or
may be cut and sawed on the farm.
Any length of flooring may be used
for slaves, just so the joints come d.
rectly beneath a hoop, which breaks
the joint
II ls easily and quickly built. know
Of one of these silos which was built
and filed in ten days. ANY one who
can saw to line and drive nail can
build a wood-hoop silo.
The hoops never need adjusting as
is necessary with the iron-hoop silo.
They do not expand and contract with
heat and cold as do the iron hoops.
| II Is more rigid than the lron-hoop
slIo, since every stave is nailed to
every hoop.
The doorway Is continuous from top
to bottom.
No door frame ls needed.
The hoops make the door frame,
reinforcement across doorway and
convenient way for fastening on the
chute.
II preserves slIass, just as we'll as
any other silo.
The walls do not shrink to any ap-
preciable extent during the summer.
They swell up again when the silo Is
filed, excluding air perfectly.
It 10 easily extended or built higher.
II Is durable. The wood-hoop silo, II
properly built of good material and
coal tarred, will easily last ten years.
A 10O-ton silo can be built for 500.
Interest on the investment at 6 per
cent is $500 and depreciation $1,000.
making the total annual cost OF own
ing a 100-ton silo only $1,000.
Can you afford To be without onef-
c. A. Hutton, Dairy Specialist, Division
of Extension, University Of Tennessee,
Knoxville.