. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. 343.—A MissoJiri be 5 inches wide, so that rats cannot climb them. The outsideposts should be covered with a board of the same width. The crib joistsshould be let into the sills, so that the floor may lie tight on the sill. Theoat bins should be sided up on the inside of the slanting braces, lapping like the siding of a house. A place forshelling is made by cutting off the endof either crib with a temporary parti-tion. The following was furnished by a cor-respondent at Oneida Lake
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. 343.—A MissoJiri be 5 inches wide, so that rats cannot climb them. The outsideposts should be covered with a board of the same width. The crib joistsshould be let into the sills, so that the floor may lie tight on the sill. Theoat bins should be sided up on the inside of the slanting braces, lapping like the siding of a house. A place forshelling is made by cutting off the endof either crib with a temporary parti-tion. The following was furnished by a cor-respondent at Oneida Lake, N. Y.: My experience has taught me that cornin too wide a crib will not keep withoutmoulding in wet seasons. Twenty-fiveyears ago, in buying a farm, I came intopossession of a crib 4 feet wide at thebottom, and flaring to 6 feet 6 inches atthe top. After losing some corn frommould, I furrowed it out, and made it ofthe shape illustrated in the accompany-ing sketch (fig. 344). I am to-day build-ing and putting up a new one of the di-^^^ 344- mensions and form of the illustration. The
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