3l6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9IO. 



Fig. 234. Photograph of rack for drying seed sweet corn. 



This rack is 12 feet long, 6 feet high and 2 feet wide. The 

 uprights are of 2 inch x 3 inch stuff and side pieces 2 inches x 

 I inch. The shelves are 8 inches apart. Over each shelf is 

 stretched 2 foot wire poultry fencing of 2 inch mesh. The ears 

 are laid on these shelves in such a way that no two ears touch 

 each other. In this way only a few kernels of each ear rest 

 upon the wires and the air can circulate freely through the whole 

 rack. 



The racks used by the Station and here illustrated are built 

 with 9 shelves. They may, of course, be built with more or 

 fewer than tliis number to suit particular conditions. It is not 

 advisable, however, to make such racks much taller than those 

 here described, because of inconvenience in reaching the corn 

 on the shelves. 



These racks may be readily converted into mouse and rat 

 proof closets by covering them on sides, ends, top and bottom 

 with wire fly screening. If this is done the screening on one 

 side should be put on in the form of hinged doors. 



