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HANDT-BOOK OP HUSBANDRY. 



4 feet square for shelled corn. The plan of the floor is shown 

 in Fig. 1 06. The building should stand on posts 2-|- feet above 

 the ground, these being capped by inverted tins made in the 

 shape of ordinary milk-pans, but without the wire in the rim. 



Fig. 106. 



— which, for this purpose, is unnecessary. This arrangement 

 will effectually prevent the access of rats, — especially if the 

 approach to the doorway is an iron stirrup or wagon step let 

 down from the sill and not coming nearer than within 18 inches 

 of the ground. 



The sides of the crib should be made of vertical slats not more 

 than three inches wide, and placed at intervals of at least one inch 

 so as to admit of a free circulation of air j for the same reason the 

 partitions between the passage way, in the .middle of the crib and 

 the bins, and the floor under the bins, should be made of slats. 

 The entrances from the passage way to the bins, on either side, 

 should be only wide enough to admit of the passing of baskets, and 

 they may be closed, as the corn is put in, by loose boards cut to 

 fit a groove, into which they are dropped from the top. The 

 roof should project enough to shed water clear of the sides, which, 

 for further protection against wet, have a pitch outward of one 

 foot on each side. 



In such a crib, the bins will be 3 feet wide at the bottom, 4 

 feet at the top (a mean width of ^h feet), and 7 feet high, which 

 will give a section of 24^ square feet. Six and a half (6^) feet in 

 length of such a bin will hold 100 bushels of ears — round measure ; 

 about 1,000 bushels being held by both sides of a crib 30 feet 

 long. 



