. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . At the Illinois experimentstation one thousand bushels of corn lost eleven andone-half per cent from the time it was cut until it wasthoroughly air dried. This is the result of a threeyearstest. A Tippecanoe county (Ohio) farmer placednineteen thousand seven hundred and one pounds ofwhite corn in a crib December 15, 1894. By August16, 1895,
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . At the Illinois experimentstation one thousand bushels of corn lost eleven andone-half per cent from the time it was cut until it wasthoroughly air dried. This is the result of a threeyearstest. A Tippecanoe county (Ohio) farmer placednineteen thousand seven hundred and one pounds ofwhite corn in a crib December 15, 1894. By August16, 1895, it lost fifteen and one-half per cent. HARVESTING 165 In Christian county, Illinois, Messrs Ricks, Pro-vine & Maxon placed sixteen thousand one hundredand fifty-five bushels of corn in an ordinary coveredcrib during the autumn of 1895. The corn was soldthe following July, the shrinkage amounting to sevenand three-fourths per cent. The corn was in fair crib-bing condition when husked, but the winter and springfollowing were unusually dry. In the fall of 1897 seven thousand one hundred andsix bushels were cribbed, and sold in July, 1900, andthe shrinkage was three hundred and fifty bushels, orslightly over four and nine-tenths per cent. In 1900. Fig 46—Excellent Rat=Proof Corn Crib twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-eight bushelswere cribbed, and the shrinkage by the next fallamounted to four hundred and fifty-three bushels, orslightly over three and seven-tenths per cent. MrMaxon states that the corn in 1899 was very poor, infact the poorest ever raised on that tract, but in 1900the crop was of excellent quality, although the earswere not large. He believes that his neighbors con-sider his corn shrinkage very small. This may be dueto his manner of cribbing it and to the quality of thecorn. He has a double crib two hundred and fifty feetlong which holds twenty thousand bushels. The cornis kept quite dry. l66 THE BOOK OF CORN In 1881 Dr Manley Miles made some tests inMichig
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