Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1919 — Round Towers in the West. [ARTICLE]

Round Towers in the West.

Those who venture into the West of the United States in these -days are often puzzled by the number of round towers ■"that at times' throw very lengthy shadows across the landscai»e. There is ahyays inure or less guessing at the windows of passenger coaches as to the name and purpose of these st riiet ur<-<' M .s'; <■:' 'tb.em have greater circumference, and some seem to have greater height than the famous round rowers et Ireland. are silos, so called because they are employed for the preservatiori of ensilage or fodder crops at their green stage. There are possibilities in barn and silo combinations which will some day. we believe. be developed by the skillful architect.. Even now departures from, rheVrude and conventional ajpe visible in many parts of the Indian -corn belt.