28 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



dry ami oool, tad hermetically seals them in tin cans. This also is a common presets to pre- 

 vent goods from being damaged at 



"There can bt DO doubt that it ire wart to put ilry wheat in an hermetically sealed tinned 

 case, it might be kepi as long as tin- Gamed 'mummy wheat" of Egypt. This will readily be 

 admitted, luit the expense would he qaaried. Let as examine into this. A oanister is a 

 metallic reservoir; * Mmeter; so is an iron, water-tank in a ship, at a railway -tation, 



or alaewhere; and a cubic foot of water-tank on a very large scale will l>e found t<> cost very 

 much le>- than a cubic foot of canister on a small scale. And if a bushel of win at be more 

 ■Billable than a bushel of water, it will cleat lv pay to put wheat in huge cani-tcr- of U 

 The wheat canister, in short) should be a wrought or cast metal tank of greater or 



. according to the wants of the owner, whether for the farmer's crop or the grain-mer- 

 chant's stock. 



"This tank should be constructed of small parts, connected by screw-bolts, and conse- 

 quently easily transported from place to place. The internal parts should be galvanized, to 

 prevent rust, and the external pari also, if desired. It should be hermetically tight at all the 

 points, and the only opening should be what is called a man-hole; that . a canister- 



top, where the lid goes on, large enough to admit a man. When filled with grain, the bop 

 should be pnt on, the fitting of the edge forming an air-tight joint. Wheat put thy into such 

 a vessel, and without any vermin, would remain wheat any number of years. But an addi- 

 tional advantage to such a reservoir would be an air-pump, by the application of which, for 

 the purpose of exhaustion, any casual vermin would be killed. If the grain were moist) the 

 same air-pump might be used to draw or force a current of warm air through it. to carry oft" 

 the moisture. By this process, and rabsequently keeping out the air, the grain might be pre- 

 served for any length of time. As the reservoir would be perfectly air-tight and water-tight, 

 it might be buried in the ground with perfect safety; and thus cellars might be rendered 



available for granaries, economizing space of oomparatiTaly little value. The grain would be 

 ly poured in from the surface; and to discharge it. an Archimedean screw should ben* 



The -i/e of the reservoir should be proportioned to the locality, and it should hold a specified 



■umber "f quarters, so as to serve as a measure of quantity, ami prevent the expense of 

 ,._*** if constructed above the ground, a stair or ladder must communicate with 



the upper part, and the lower part must be formed like a hopper, for the parpo i discharge] 



,i] up. bra Localities this arrangement might be best, and wheat might be thrashed into 



grain direct from tin- field and Stored. * * * tiranarie- of this description Would occupy less 



than one-third the cubic space of those of the ordinary description, and their cost would bo 



•i ene-fiftie. * * * With this security for storing safely, a farmer would 1. 

 hesitation in sowing great breadths of land. Be would net be driven to market under en 

 average value, and might choose fads own time for selling. The fear of leai being dispelled) 

 pie would buy with 1' tion, and the great fo of the community would, by 



■ whol me competition, insure the great mast of the community against ■ short supply. 



But m long as uncertainty shall prevail in the storage of grain, so long will it be ■ perilous 



trade to I in it, and BO long will the bod of the community be Bubjeot to B I 



Irregular fluctuation of prices. There i< nothing difficult in this proposition. It is merely 



applying existing arrangements to unusual oaees. There needs but the practice] example to 



■ t by Influential people, and the great mi - will travel in the same track. To the wealthy 



agriculturist it will be but the amplification of the principle of the tin-lined corn-bin, that 



keeps i, ut the rat from the oats of the stable. * * * Were this mode of pi stun lag grain Is 



hi me general, the facility of sscertaining -tucks and crops after reaping would he vary 



t. The granaries being measure! of quantity, no band-measuring would be n led, and 



the ctle.t- of e*et leu iiier might be obviated." 



Immense Grain Warehouse. 



Tm Chicago Journal thus describee an immense grain wni' reeUDtly erected in that 



city bv fJibbs, firiffitb • Ci.:- 



The Btrncturi to the railroad track, a distance of 190 feet Th" 



