DRYING AND STORING SEED CORN 121 



method. If the hangers are made out of woven fence wire, 

 they tangle badly when the corn is removed, and, if made 

 of steel, they are rather too expensive. 



STORING SEED CORN ON A LARGE SCALE 



In order to dry corn to the best advantage, the drying 

 room should be so constructed that it can be thrown open 

 on all sides in mild weather. It should be tight enough when 

 closed up to enable it to be evenly heated in cold weather. 

 A plant built especially for drying corn for seed should be 

 tall with the floors slatted to allow a free circulation of air 

 from bottom to top. There should always be ventilating 

 flues in the roof, and these should never be closed until the 

 corn is dry. Corn should be gathered early and taken direct 

 to the plant where it is picked over the same day and laid 

 on racks or put in ventilated cribs. -Corn, to show the highest 

 germination, should be gathered as soon as it has ripened 

 in the field and stored in a room that is frost proof and at 

 the same time thoroughly ventilated. 



Great advancement has been made in the last ten years in 

 the construction of buildings made especially for the drying 

 and preparing of seed corn for market. Some well venti- 

 lated and thoroughly heated plants have not given the best 

 results, simply because they w T ere filled too full of seed corn. 

 We are of the opinion that in order to obtain the best results, 

 no seed drying plant should be filled to more than one-half 

 of its crib capacity. 



