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Farm And Garden

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
September
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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We would not put in any foundatiou of either brick or stone were we to build in a barn, ' ' says John Qould in Ohio Farmer. We have none under our two silos, built 12 years ago. In the barn we would make a square silo, put the girths on round and round, spaciní a little more as they approaohed the top, where they can be as much as three f eet apart, but using more toward and at the bottom. Level the ground on the basement floor and put the first girths flat on the ground, the next eight inolies above, the next a foot, spacing a little wider each time until above the oenter, where they can be much farther apart. Make the silo distinctly independent of barn and walls. Lap the ends of the girth and spike them well and then cut a short board and nail across the corners, as shown in the cut. Out it out in crescent form - a little - and when you ceil up your silo side up right round on this crosspiece and make a "round corner" without any break or angle. Pig. 1 shows how the corner is put together ; Fig. 2 shows the crescent shaped brace. Use good Georgia pine to ceil with and flooring not over three inchea in width. Make your "manholes" small, doorfashion, without hinges, and to take out on the inside. When the silo is coinpleted, make some good cement and pry up your silo, a side at a time, and drop it back into a good, liberal "mush" of cement, and theu on the inside fill the angle where thewalls and ground meet with cement and small stone, out into the silo a foot and up on the sides, and on the outside cover the sill completely. Draw the soil from the center of the silo up on to the cement and pound down and make the bottom quite kettle shaped, fully a foot below the sills at the center. Do not cement the bottom unless you fear rats coming up from below. A clay floor for a silo is preferable by far if there is no danger of surface water getting under. Whenever your silo gets to decaying on the walls, then will be time to paper line and doublé ceil, and tben you will have a new silo. A stone foundation adds nothing to the value of a wooden silo, and you cannot join wood and stone together and make a No. 1 job without more work and cost than to run the wooden walls to the foundation, and it will never be so satisfactory as an "all alike" silo.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News