Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . hefall and it pays to hold grain to sell later. Then, more attention is now being paidto seed. A grain house like this with aplace for scales and a fanning mill is aver) valuable addition to any farm. Thedifferent kinds of Sfrain maA be stored in good mill that will select say one bushelout of ten of the kind of grain that youwant to sow and do it while blowingthe chaflf out of the grain you are sell-ing without interfering with the grade isa va
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . hefall and it pays to hold grain to sell later. Then, more attention is now being paidto seed. A grain house like this with aplace for scales and a fanning mill is aver) valuable addition to any farm. Thedifferent kinds of Sfrain maA be stored in good mill that will select say one bushelout of ten of the kind of grain that youwant to sow and do it while blowingthe chaflf out of the grain you are sell-ing without interfering with the grade isa valuable mill, but there are just such fan-ning mills made and their cost is little if 26 RADFORDS PRACTICAL any more than the common kind on themarket. In this scale room wires may be stretch-ed for hanging the empty bags whennot wanted. By sinking the scales in thefloor each bag may be weighed as it is It is difficult to arrange a plan of gettingin and out conveniently without a plat-form. The door is too high to step up andif you have a kind of stair to reach it youmight just as well have a good loadingplatform as a cheap shaky affair. A grain. loaded. This is best done by having a two-wheeled bag truck and a counter weighton the scale beam so that the net weightmay be written down each time withouttaking the time to calculate. Great care should be taken in buildinga granary to have it rat proof. The wallof course must go below the frost and it isa good plan to put a three inch tile allaround the bottom on the outside whichanswers for drainage as well as to keep therats from burrowing under the wall. Somefarmers object to a platform in front of thedoor just on account of rats, but if the dooris made heavy and made to fit tight witha bit of hoop iron at the bottom, rats willnot iret in that wav if the door is kent shut. house should be set up well from theground for two reasons, it should be theheight of the wagon for easy loading andunloading and it should be high and drybecau
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