Silos and ensilageThe preservation of fodder corn and other green fodder crops . are best suited to the proposed is so much difference in the various kinds of limethat proportions can only be given approximately. Roughly the p»oportions may be stated as one part limeto seven parts of other materials, half of v>hich should beclean washed sand. When sufficient materials are accu-mulated upon the mixing board, they are first mixed dryby repeated shoveling, then the lime, slaked to a creamyconsistency, is added, and well mixed through the whole,adding more water if necessary. The add
Silos and ensilageThe preservation of fodder corn and other green fodder crops . are best suited to the proposed is so much difference in the various kinds of limethat proportions can only be given approximately. Roughly the p»oportions may be stated as one part limeto seven parts of other materials, half of v>hich should beclean washed sand. When sufficient materials are accu-mulated upon the mixing board, they are first mixed dryby repeated shoveling, then the lime, slaked to a creamyconsistency, is added, and well mixed through the whole,adding more water if necessary. The addition of one-fourth cement, the lime being reduced to three-fourthsof one part, and the cement being added after the mortar2 26 SILOS AND ENSILAGE. is mixed, makes a much quicker setting and harder con-crete. When all cement and no lime is used, but a smallquantity can be mixed at a time, for it sets so quicklythat it could not be placed in position before it becamesolid. The proportions for a smooth, solid concrete are :one part Portland cement to five parts sharp sand. If. Figs. 4 and 5.—raising the planks. mixed rather liquid, one-third or more, often nearly orquite two-thirds, of the wall as completed, may consistof gravel and coarse broken stones, put in while thecement is being placed in the molds forming the walls. WHITMAN & BURRELL ON C0NCR|:TE SILOS. These gentlemen, in their paper on silos, given else-where, append the following directions for construct-ing a silo of concrete: First, having excavated for thesilo, dig a trench all around the bottom and fill inwith cobble stones, and from one corner lead a drain,if possible, so as to carry off all water. The trenchunder the proposed walls of the silo being filled with CONCRETE SILOS. 27 cobble stones, place stan3ards of scantling long enoughto extend twelve inches higher than the top of the wallwhen it is finished. Place these standards on each sideof the proposed wall, and if you desire the wall to betwenty inches t
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