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FRANKLIN COUNTY, IOWA. 



CORN CRIBS. 

 My corn cribs are made tight on the outside, so that no 

 snow or rain can enter. They are raised two feet from the 

 ground. The bottom of the cribs are made of fence boards, 

 laid one inch apart, so that the air has free circulation througli 

 the corn. I nail the boards as far apart as I can and liav3 them 

 still keep the corn from running through. My cribs are twenty- 

 four feet long, eight feet wide, measuring inside, and ten feet 

 high at the lowest side. Some farmers assert that corn will 

 spoil in such cribs, but I find that it keeps better in a crib made 

 in this manner than it does in open cribs. In good weather we 

 leave the doors of the driveway open while we are husking, 

 but in stormy weather the doors are closed. This prevents the 

 corn getting damp. 



GROUND PLAN OP HOO PEN AND CORN CRIB. 



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CORN nUSKS 



make a splendid bed for hog.s, and I snap sufficient corn to fur- 

 nish them with beddiuGT throuoh the Winter. I store it in a 



