Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . erharvesting by (a) chilling and (b) becoming alternately mois-tened and dried, than by any other causes. After drying isbegun the corn should not be allowed to become moist, or even tostay in a moist atmosphere until it is planted. To get the bestresults it will be necessary to use some artificial heat (from astove or furnace) in drying the corn. Any one engaged in thebusiness of raising seed corn should have a special drying room. 3. Storage during and after curing. To get the best resultswith seed corn it is necessary that during
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . erharvesting by (a) chilling and (b) becoming alternately mois-tened and dried, than by any other causes. After drying isbegun the corn should not be allowed to become moist, or even tostay in a moist atmosphere until it is planted. To get the bestresults it will be necessary to use some artificial heat (from astove or furnace) in drying the corn. Any one engaged in thebusiness of raising seed corn should have a special drying room. 3. Storage during and after curing. To get the best resultswith seed corn it is necessary that during the curing process anduntil the corn is shelled no ear should be in contact with anythingbut the surrounding air. In this way the air circulates aroundeach kernel. The corn then does not mould and cures quicklyand evenly. This condition can best be realized by the use ofstorage racks. The rack devised and used by the Station hasthe form shown in the following illustration. It has been foundvery satisfactory. 3l6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Fig. 234. Photograph of rack for drying seed sweet corn. This rack is 12 feet long, 6 feet high and 2 feet wide. Theuprights are of 2 inch x 3 inch stuff and side pieces 2 inches xI inch. The shelves are 8 inches apart. Over each shelf isstretched 2 foot wire poultry fencing of 2 inch mesh. The earsare laid on these shelves in such a way that no two ears toucheach other. In this way only a few kernels of each ear restupon the wires and the air can circulate freely through the wholerack. The racks used by the Station and here illustrated are builtwith 9 shelves. They may, of course, be built with more orfewer than tliis number to suit particular conditions. It is notadvisable, however, to make such racks much taller than thosehere described, because of inconvenience in reaching the cornon the shelves. These racks may be readily converted into mouse and ratproof closets by covering them on sides, ends, top and bottomwith wire
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