rhi* h a new type grain bin datign which ums rmlatlvaly Inmx- 



p»ntlv» conttruttlonal material. It wo* de*lgn»d by Hie U. of I. 



department of agricultural engineering and ha* been given 



limited letting. 



Design New Type 

 Grain Storage Bin 



Not Counting the Floor, Building 

 Cost is 10 Cents Per Bushel. 

 Ttvo Men Can Build in One Day 



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ITH prospects of bumper crops 

 this fall, on-the-farm grain 

 storage looms as an important 

 item in the farming business. 

 Corn loans and resealing pro- 

 grams offered by the government also 

 represent additional pressure for ade- 

 quate farm storage. Government loans 

 are also being offered for the construc- 

 tion of crib facilities for corn, wheat, 

 soybeans and oats. Details on these 

 programs are available at corunty PMA 

 (formerly AAA) offices. 



The University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture in July announced that its 

 farm building specialists had designed 

 and tested a completely new type of 

 grain storage bin which may be an aid 

 to the storage problem. (See picture). 

 D. G. Carter, professor of farm struc- 

 tures and designer of the new type bin, 

 says the building cost is less than 10 

 cents a bushel, not counting the floor. 

 Two men can build the new round bin 

 in one day. 



Plans can be secured by writing the 

 University of Illinois. College of Agri- 

 culture, Urbana, Illinois. The charge 

 is 15 cents for the blue print and in- 

 struction sheet. 



Carter and his associates used a new 

 laminated type of building material 

 made of wood and paf)er. This ma- 

 terial comes in sheets one-seventh of 

 an inch thick. The sheet has a wood 

 veneer core, glued and covered with a 

 tough asphalt-resin paper. 



The new bin is round. 14 feet in 

 diameter and 8 feet high. It has a 

 capacity of 1,000 bushels. The design 

 uses 12 four-foot by eight-foot sheets 

 of the laminated material. 



Carter points out that there has been 

 time to run only limited tests on the 

 new bin. However, these tests indicate 

 that it will stand the weight and pres- 

 sure of stored grain satisfactorily. 

 In these tests, the crib was filled with 

 1,115 bushels of shelled corn. That is 

 62,440 pounds and 10 per cent above 



the rated capacity of the crib. It's 

 about the same load, he said, that would 

 result from storage of soybeans, rye, 

 barley or grain sorghum. The bin was 

 left under test for 112 hours. During 

 this time, the framework was jarred 

 severely to reveal possible weaknesses. 

 There was no damage, and the glued 

 joints remained sound. 



Carter says that where the crib is to 

 be used outside, it will be necessary to 

 have a concrete slab or wood floor. A 

 temporary cover can be made from re- 

 inforced building paper or a tarpaulin. 

 The plan also shows how to build a 

 permanent roof cover which is more 

 desirable. If the bin can be placed in 

 a crib driveway or machine shed, the 

 farmer can save the cost of building a 

 floor for the crib. 



With an estimated cost of less than 

 10 cents a bushel, farmers might also 

 be interested in it for storing corn they 

 reseal. 



Corn growers may reseal their 1948 

 loan corn or convert purchase agree- 

 ments into new loans and earn 10 cents 

 per bushel storage payment for keeping 

 the corn another year. Sealed ear corn 

 can be shelled and resealed in less 

 space. To be resealed as shelled corn, 

 the moisture content must not exceed 

 13.5 per cent. Deadline for resealing 

 is Oct. 31, 1949. Deadline for putting 

 purchase agreement com under loan 

 is Sept. 30, 1949. The 1949 crop corn 

 will be covered by 90 per cent of parity 

 loans. 



On May 30, the government reported 

 that 390.478.653 bushels of 1948 corn 

 had been put under loan or purchase 

 agreements. It reported that the most 

 corn ever before put under price sup- 

 port loans was 302 million bushels in 

 1939-40. On May 30, Iowa had more 

 than 124 million bushels of 1948 corn 

 under loan as compared with approxi- 

 mately 52 million bushels in Illinois. 

 Illinois, however, had 28 million 



bushels under purchase agreements as 

 compared with Iowa's 19 million 

 bushels. 



National average wheat loan of $1.96 

 per bushel at the farm for No. 1 grade 

 was announced in July. The 1948 rate 

 was $2.00 per bushel. The given price 

 support price will be operated through 

 loans and purchase agreements based 

 on 90 per cent of July 1 parity price. 

 Parity was $2.17 per bushel as com- 

 pared with $2.22 for the same date in 

 1948. 



Cook County Farm Bureau 

 Employs Tax Specialist 



INCREASINGLY tax conscious, the 

 Cook County Farm Bureau has em- 

 ployed John O'Brien, 29, of Detroit, 

 Mich., as a full-time tax analyst and 

 consultant. 



O'Brien will work with tax commit- 

 tees of four or five farmers in each 

 township. He will keep the committees 

 fully informed on all tax matters, help 

 them analyze budgets, and keep them 

 abreast of legal procedures on tax af- 

 fairs. He will appear at township meet- 

 ings for the purpose of protecting farm 

 interests and to point out how waste 

 can be eliminated and how the high 

 cost of government can be reduced. 



The new tax man attended Wayne 

 University. Detroit, and graduated from 

 Municipal University, Akron, O. He 

 majored in public administration. 



DeKalb County Farm Bureau was 

 first to hire a tax expert more than a 

 year ago. Other counties considering 

 the same action are Piatt, Coles and 

 Edgar together, and Marion. Working 

 with the counties in an effort to obtain 

 fairer taxation for farmers is Bert 

 Vandervliet, director of the IA.\ depart- 

 ment of property taxation. 



AUGUST. 1949 



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