Sorghums : sure money crops . duringdry weather will not have the same tendency to heat asin the case of opposite conditions. The threshed grain of sorghums is regarded as diffi-cult to hold without heating. Elevators storing suchgrain expect to move it from bin to bin so soon as heatingis manifested. The exposure of the grain to the air driesand cools it. The farmer who stores the threshed graincan expect to do some stirring by shoveling in case heat-ing begins. Usually heating occurs in the spring duringthe season of natural germination. However, the growerwho sells his surplus soon after th
Sorghums : sure money crops . duringdry weather will not have the same tendency to heat asin the case of opposite conditions. The threshed grain of sorghums is regarded as diffi-cult to hold without heating. Elevators storing suchgrain expect to move it from bin to bin so soon as heatingis manifested. The exposure of the grain to the air driesand cools it. The farmer who stores the threshed graincan expect to do some stirring by shoveling in case heat-ing begins. Usually heating occurs in the spring duringthe season of natural germination. However, the growerwho sells his surplus soon after threshing need not worry 212 sorghums: sure money crops about heating, and that part of the crop which he feedscan be handled profitably and economically withoutthreshing and which subject is discussed in a laterchapter. Bin Ventilator for Sorghums. Various plans for theconstruction of ventilated storage bins have been sug-gested and are regarded as more or less successful, butexperiments directed toward handling in such way as. Sketch of (leorge Bishops Ventilator for Kafir Bin, to prevent heating will lead to more economical and prac-tical results. A bin ventilator which has given goodsatisfaction was designed by George Bishop, a large kafirgrower of Washita County, Oklahoma, and which wasdescribed and illustrated in the Oklahoma Farm Journal,as follows: The ventilator is made of one-by-four pieces thelength that the bin is wide, held together by one-by-twostrips six inches long, covered on top and the ends withheavy fly screen. The plan of placing it is to cut a holein the outside of the bin the size of the ventilator andeven with the bottom of the bin. The ventilator is theninserted, resting on the floor of the bin, leaving the end,which you will note is covered with the screen wire thesame as the top, flush with the outside of the bin, as indi-cated in the drawing. The cross braces, on the under side of the ventilator,are nailed onto the one-by-fours, instead of being set in
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