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necessity occupy a good deal of room, or there will be dan- 

 sfer of mouldinor. Sometimes the season is too short or 

 unfavorable — like the one just past — to admit of the crop 

 being fully matured and ripened in the field, and in such 

 a case the danger is much greater. 



I think a building of suitable size — say six feet wide at 

 the base and a foot wider at the top, and six and one-half or 

 seven feet high, and of suitable length — is the best arrange- 

 ment for the purpose. It should be enclosed with perpen- 

 dicular strips about three or four inches wide, with spaces 

 three-eighths of an inch between them, to admit of a free 

 circulation of air. There should also be cracks in the floor. 

 Set the building upon posts two feet from the ground, and 

 have a door at one end. Each section of four feet in such a 

 corn-house will contain at least one hundred bushels of ears ; 

 so one can easily calculate how long to make his corn-house 

 in order that its capacity may be suflficient for his needs. 

 With such a corn-house properly constructed you can store 

 your crop in very compact shape, and still feel no apprehen- 

 sion in regard to its curiug, if it is reasonably well ripened. 

 You may also have your corn secure from the depredation 

 of rats, if you use proper care in the construction of your 

 building, which is a matter well worthy of attention. 



Corn is a grain so universally used as food for almost 

 every kind of domestic animals, that it is hardly worth the 

 while to say anything in regard to its uses. There is one 

 minor point, however, about which people difier somewhat, 

 and I suppose they always will : Does it pay to grind the 

 cobs? If the meal is to be fed to milch cows I should pre- 

 fer to have the cobs ground with the corn ; but the grinding 

 should bo finely done. I am not prepared to say just how 

 much intrinsic value there is in the cob ; but when we con- 

 sider the saving of labor in shelling the corn, I think we can 

 afford to pay for the grinding of the cobs with the corn, and 

 I think such is the practice of a majority of our farmers. 



My remarks in regard to corn, thus far, have related en- 

 tirely to field corn, as distinct from sweet corn. But I am 

 unwilling to close this paper without a suitable recognition 

 of the merits and importance of that branch of the porn 

 family. 



