DRYING AND STORING SEED CORN 121 
method. If the hangers are made out of woven fence wire, 
they tangle badly when the corn is removed, and, if made 
of steel, they are rather too expensive. 
SvTorInG SEED Corn on A LarGE SCALE 
In order to dry corn to the best advantage, the drying 
room should be so constructed that it can be thrown open 
on all sides in mild weather. It should be tight enough when 
closed up to enable it to be evenly heated in cold weather. 
A plant built especially for drying corn for seed should be 
tall with the floors slatted to allow a free circulation of air 
from bottom to top. There should always be ventilating 
flues in the roof, and these should never be closed until the 
corn is dry. Corn should be gathered early and taken direct 
to the plant where it is picked over the same day and laid 
on racks or put in ventilated cribs. Corn, to show the highest 
germination, should be gathered as soon as it has ripened 
in the field and stored in a room that is frost proof and at 
the same time thoroughly ventilated. 
Great advancement has been made in the last ten years in 
the construction of buildings made especially for the drying 
and preparing of seed corn for market. Some well venti- 
lated and thoroughly heated plants have not given the best 
results, simply because they were filled too full of seed corn. 
We are of the opinion that in order to obtain the best results, 
no seed drying plant should be filled to more than one-half 
of its crib capacity. 
