Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

A CONSERVATIVE SILO. Rensselaer, R-3, May 13, 1918. We naturally turn to the old Nev/ Englanders when we want to learn economy. Now that the silo fever is on, let us take a glance over*the farms of New York and New England and see what they have so successfully used for the past half century and will continue to use. The home made silo is the cheapest by several hundred per cent, and the best in every particular. The home made silo comes to you friendless and alone. Why friendless? Just because no company or agent makes one cent on its erection. But build one NOW and build no other. The home made s-ilo is square. It is built of lumber, that you buy of your local lumber dealer. Build it like a barn only put the frame work on the outside. Use inch plank upright and break joints by placing other inch plank over 't. This makes the silo two inches thick and tight. At each of the four corners place a two inch uj righ plank. This cuts out the corners and nothing spoils. This silo costs about one-third the usual round silo and no danger of blowing down. A cement silo costs perhaps eight times as much, or 700 per cent more for the same capacity. You need no patent doors. The writer will be pleased to go into detail concerning the construction of the doors or silo with any one that is interested. EVERETT HALSTEAD.