Fig. ISA. This g^rain room is above 

 the feed floor. Grain is 

 stored in sacks on one side 

 of the room. The small 

 bins, with chutes to the 

 floor below, are filled once 

 a week. 



The storage of grain in bulk on the 

 floor above the cows and the grain 

 easily accessible near the feed alley 

 seem to minimize the labor required, 

 and should be considered in new or 

 remodeling construction. In some 

 barns it is difficult to arrange stor- 

 age location so that it is easily ac- 

 cessible for delivery of grain from 

 trucks and also conveniently located 

 for the feeding operation in the floor 

 below. In these cases, a location fav- 

 oring easy accessibility of grain at 

 the work center on the stable level 

 should be given priority. Having the 

 grain handy on the feeding floor cuts 

 down on the time of operations that 

 must be done at busy periods of the 

 day. It makes the labor more flex- 

 ible. 



The task of getting grain from the 

 grain dealer's truck to farm storage 

 is not within the scope of this study, 

 but it is an important part of grain 

 handling. Usually the grain dealer 

 will deliver sacks of grain to con- 

 veniently located storage rooms. On 

 many New Hampshire farms, the de- 

 livery truck can be driven onto a 

 driveway floor above the cows, and 

 the bags of grain unloaded into a 



convenient storage room. Two oper- 

 ators had built one or more bulk stor- 

 age bins in this room. Chutes ex- 

 tended from these to the feeding floor 

 below. These operators opened and 

 emptied bags of grain into the bulk 

 bins once a week. They could do 

 this at a slack period. 



In one case observed, the truck was 

 driven onto a driveway eight feet 

 above the mow floor. A bulk storage 

 bin had been constructed in the space 

 above the cows and immediately be- 

 low this driveway. The operator 

 hauled his own grain and at the time 

 of delivery opened and emptied the 

 bags directly from the truck to the 

 bulk storage bin. This type of barn 

 is not uncommon in northern New 

 Hampshire and many other operators 

 could take advantage of this plan. 

 When and if grain can be purchased 

 in bulk, provision could be made to 

 dump it directly into the bin. 



In order to have grain in bulk 

 above the cows in most modern barns 

 in this state, the grain will have to be 

 elevated 10 or more feet above the 

 floor of the truck. Farmers can lo- 

 cate the bulk bins in the most con- 

 venient place for feeding and use spe- 

 cial equipment for elevating it. (See 

 Fig. 16.) Such equipment is not ex- 

 pensive and is now available. It is 

 possible that alert grain dealers will 

 become equipped to place the grain 



GRAIN ROOM 



COW STABLE 



Fig. 15B. This diagram illustrates 

 the handling of grain in 

 Fig. ISA. 



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