Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . IiSiJiii 11; I! i ? I. y^---^ The dotted lines show how the strawbarn is built over the barn doors,doorway cut through the stable wall. Note also PARAFFIN COATING FOR SILOS MR. ARGYLE, Utah, according toHoards Dairyman, had four newsilos built in the spring of 1919. Onoof these silos had an inside coating ofparaffin. The other three were coatedv^ith coal tar. The paraffin was pUt onin rather a heavy coat, close to 180pounds of paraffin being used. It wasput on hot but the walls were not heat-ed, and the result was quite a heavycoating of the wax, cos
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . IiSiJiii 11; I! i ? I. y^---^ The dotted lines show how the strawbarn is built over the barn doors,doorway cut through the stable wall. Note also PARAFFIN COATING FOR SILOS MR. ARGYLE, Utah, according toHoards Dairyman, had four newsilos built in the spring of 1919. Onoof these silos had an inside coating ofparaffin. The other three were coatedv^ith coal tar. The paraffin was pUt onin rather a heavy coat, close to 180pounds of paraffin being used. It wasput on hot but the walls were not heat-ed, and the result was quite a heavycoating of the wax, costing,much morefor the material than if should andgiving rather too heavy a coating otwax, which, under some condition?scales or chips off. Mr. Argyle says,however, that he much prefers paraf-fining to tarring as a silo lining. Heleports that scarcely any silage stuckto the paraffin wall during freezingweather, whereas, during that samtweather, there was much silage frozento the wall of the tarred silo. There-was not repotted a single bit of frostfound in the par
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