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BROOM-COKN AND BllOOMS. 



corn of different kinds. The following description 

 of their buildings, and general management in harvest- 

 ing, will show how admirable are the arrangements 

 for handling their immense crop. The dry .houses, 

 of which there are five, are arranged around a central 

 building used for a sorting-house, in such a manner (see 

 fig. 7), that the wind has a free sweep in any direction, 

 and access can be had with wagons to each dry-house and 

 all around the sorting-house. The dry-houses are 

 shown at a, a, a, the sorting-house at I, the scrapers 



Fig. 8. PLAN OF STALLS. 



at c, and the horse-power a 10-horse lever power 

 which runs the scrapers for cleaning the brush, at d. 

 Each of these dry-houses consists of twelve sections or 

 stalls, as seen at figure 8, eight feet long, or seven feet 

 four inches in the clear between the posts. A house may 

 consist of any number of these sections needed to contain 

 the brush raised upon the farm, from one upwards. In 

 these five buildings there are 60 stalls (12 in each), which 

 are sufficient to hold the brush produced on the 600 acres. 

 The stalls are, however, filled three times ; first with the 

 early dwarf varieties, which are baled and out of the way 

 by the time the first of the later varieties are ready for 

 cutting ; these are dried and baled by the time the latest 

 come in. The season of harvesting is lengthened in this 

 manner, by planting succeeding varieties, as well as by 



