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This U a new type grain bin design which uset relatively Inex- 

 pensive constructional material. It vras designed by the U. of I. 

 department of agricultural engineering and has been given 

 limifed fesflng. 



Design New Type 

 Grain Storage Bin 



Not Counting the Floor, Building 

 Cost is 10 Cents Per Bushel. 

 Two Men Can Build in One Day 





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WITH |l^o^p^■l■t^ 111 luimper crops 

 this fall, oti-tlie-farm grain 

 storage looms as an inij)orlant 

 ik-m in the farminj!; Inisiness. 

 (xnn loans and rescaliiif: pro- 

 jirains oflVred by llie governnit'nt also 

 represent additional pressure for ade- 

 (]uate farm storage, (iovernmrnt loans 

 are also heing oflered for the construc- 

 tion of crili facilities for corn, wheat, 

 soybeans and oats. F)etails on these 

 programs are available at county PMA 

 I lormerly AAA) offices. 



The L iiiversity of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture in July atuiounced that its 

 farm building specialists had designed 

 and l<'sted a completely new type of 

 grain storage bin wliicli may be an aid 

 to the storage problem, i See picture). 

 1). ("r. Carter, professor of farm struc- 

 tures and designer of the new type bin. 

 says the building cost is less than 10 

 cents a Iju.shel. not counting the floor. 

 Two men can build the new round bin 

 in one day. 



Plans can be secured liv writing the 

 I niversitv of Illinois, ("ollege of Agri- 

 culture. L rbana. Illinois. The charge 

 is l.T cents for the blue print and in- 

 struction sheet. 



(barter and his a.ssociates used a new 

 laminated type of building material 

 made of wood and paper. This ma- 

 terial corner in sheets one-seventh of 

 an inch thick. The sheet has a <vood 

 \eneer core, glued and covered with a 

 tough asphalt-resin paper. 



The new bin is round. I I feet in 

 diameter and 8 feet high. It has a 

 capacity of 1.000 iuishels. The design 

 uses 12 four-foot bv eight-foot sheets 

 of the laminated material. 



(barter points out that there has been 

 time to run only limiti'd 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 

 ')2.H0 pounds and 10 per cent above 



the rated capacity of the cril). It s 

 about the same load, he said, that would 

 result from storage of .soybeans, rye. 

 barley or grain sorghum. The l>in was 

 left under test for 112 hours. During 

 this time, the framework was jarred 

 severely to reveal possible weakiu'S.ses. 

 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 

 })ermanent 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 thev 

 reseal. 



(^orn growers may reseal their 191" 

 loan corn or convert purchase agree- 

 ments into new loans and earn 10 cents 

 per bushel storage payment for kee|Miig 

 the corn another vear. Sealed ear corn 

 can be shelled and reseated in less 

 space. To be resealed as shelled corn, 

 the moisture content nnist not exceed 

 1.^.5 per cent. Deadline for resealing 

 is Oct. 31. 1919. Deadline for putting 

 purchase agreement corn under loan 

 is Sept. m. 1919. The 1919 crop corn 

 will be covered bv 9(J per cent of paritv 

 loans. 



On Mav .30. the government reported 

 that .■>90.i7,'-',.6.'i.3 bushels of 191!; corn 

 had been put under loan or purchase 

 agreements. It rejiorted that the most 

 corn ever before put under price su|)- 

 port loans was 302 million bushels in 

 1939-10. On May 30. Iowa had more 

 than 124 million bushels of 1918 corn 

 under loan as compared with approxi- 

 mately .S2 million busliels in Illinois. 

 Illinois, however, had 2<S million 



busliels under purchase agre«"ments as 

 compareil with Iowa's 19 million 

 busli,-ls. 



Natiiitial average wheat loan of S1.9<> 

 per iiushel at the farm for \<i. 1 grade 

 was aimounced in July. The 19U) rate 

 was S2.(M( 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. 

 Paritv was S2.I7 per bushel as com- 

 pared « ith ■?2.22 for the same date in 



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Cook County Farm Bureau 

 Employs Tax Specialist 



INCHKASIXGLV tax conscious, the 

 Cook Count V Farm Hureau lias em- 

 plo\ed John OlJrien. 29. of Detroit. 

 Mich., as a full-lime tax analyst and 

 consultant. 



O'Urien will work with tax commit- 

 tees of four or live farmers in each 

 township. He will ki^p the committees 

 fullv informed on all tax matters, help 

 them atialyze budgets, and keep them 

 aiireast of legal procedures on tax af- 

 fairs. He will appear at township me<»t- 

 ings for the |)iirpo>e of protecting farm 

 inleri'sts and to point out how waste 

 can be eliminated anil how the high 

 cost of go\frnmerit can be reduced. 



The new tax man atleniled \^ ayne 

 I tiiversitv. Detroit, ami graduated from 

 Municipal I niversitv. Akron. O. He 

 majorerl in public administration. 



DcKalb ("ounty Farm liureau was 

 first to hire a tax expert more than a 

 year ago. Other counties considering 

 the same action are Piatt. Coh-s and 

 F.dgar together, and Marion. Working 

 with the counties in an effort to obtain 

 fairer taxation for farmers is Hert 

 \'andervliet. director of the lAA depart- 

 metit of property taxation. 



AUGUST, 1949 



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