Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
Farm, Garden and Household.
My GranAry and How 1 Made It.

NY 1EahaHy ana HOW Mnue AAs
Ny granary is IA feet wide by 90 feet |
long, and supported by six butments, |
built as follows First, hole was dug
about two feet deep and a bowlder with |
a fiat surface of about Is or 20 inches |
square was placed in the bottom of the |
hole with fat surface up this was Sc
curely and firmly fastened by filling
around with small stones well pounded
down on top of this is placed a sand
stone from six to eight inches thick,
with an even surface about Is by Is
inches. The top of the last-named
is about three inches above the surface
of the earth /; on top of this stone is
built a solid brick butment IL by 16
inches square and q feet high on
each butment is placed an inch board
large enough to cover the top. / then
had some tins made in the shape of an
UPSTREAM, with top and bottom left out;
these were large enough to slide down
over each butment the corners of the
upper ends of these tins were slid down
/! inches and the sides turned in and
securely nailed to the board on top of
the abutment the length of tins IA
inches. The foundation is now COM
plete, with a butment at each corner
and one in the center on each side. The
foundation of the building consists of
four stills eight inches square placed
upon the butments so as to project over
two inches /; the joists for foundation
are IA in number and IA feet long, and
sawed 2xS inches. One-third of dis
lance from each end joist is dove
tailed so as to keep from spreading.
The frame is of scantling, 2x4 inches
thick and 10 feet long. The upper
joists are 16 feet long, so that the build
ing spreads at top. On one side is
marked off a space four feet wide for
corn this space has a slat floor 1t
inches thick by 2 inches wide the re-
mainder of the floor is of matched floor
ing. On the opposite side of the build
ing a space of four feet is marked off
and divided into four equal parts for
bins for grain. This leaves an alley
between five and six feet wide through
the center of the building, at one end
of which is door, and at the other a
window. Under the window is also a
bin about five feet wide. On the side
of the bins the building is ceiled up
and the top fixed so that no grain
gets between the ceilings and outside
coverings ; the side next to the corn
crib is also ceiled up about four feet,
except doorway to take out corn near
one end, so in case of necessity the
whole alley could be used for grain. 1
have door on the side, well up, to
shovel corn into the crib from the out
side. The outside covering is perfectly
tight, no air admitted except between
the Stats in the bottom of the corn-crib,
which are three-fourths of an inch
apart. The building is painted, and
presents very tasteful appearance.
Rats and mice don't trouble me. ]
find this building has capacity OF
holding not less than 1000 bushels OF
grain, while in the loft is splendid
place for seed corn, rakes, hoes, &c.
W. H. Bettes, Portage Co., Ohio.
The Money Needed to Begin With.
I beg leave to suggest, says Kansas
correspondent, that man can start
comfortably on a farm in Kansas OF
Nebraska on at least half tie amount Of
$4,000. If he has served as a soldier
in the Rebellion he can obtain 100 acres
of land within railroad limits for moth
ing if a citizen, he can acquire the
same amount for 5000, by first pre-
empting 80 acres at 50. so an acre, and
afterward demonstrating the other 80
Two hundred dollars is suficientto erect
house that will be comfortable, anC
amply sufficient for time mine cost
$500, is 12x16, and ceiled within; but
am only q single man, and allow al
extra 500 for family accommodation
The barn can easily be dispensed with
wall built up of tough sod, and roo
OF boards, furnishes as comfortable
shelter for stock as any wooden barn il
existence is, in fact, more impervious
to our searching winds. The roof anc
woodwork of this would cost about 800
A corn crib would be needed would
cost about $50 5000 will purchase
good farm team here from $50 to $10(
wagon $50 12-inch breaking pillow
and $50 couple of good mich COWS
The fencing item we dispense will
altogether here we have herd law il
force which affords far better protection
to our crops than most of the averag
fences do. The total of the above est
mates is 1850, which is exclusive of tn
cost of getting here, of living, and O
small tools, &C., but $50 OF $500 wi
amply cover these items
Subsoil Cultivation.
My experience of thirty years ha
" more and more convinced me of the vas
Importance CATER drainage) of thereh
breaking the pan and disturbing the SUI
soil, thus rendering it more friable an
accessible to air, water, and to the root
of the plants, rendering it in many case
much more capable of absorbing and re
tanning the water needful for the growt
of plants, and preventing the drying IL
of the crops on certain soils in hot DIR
summers. I do not mean merely pullin
points through the subsoil, but by TO
lowing in the track of the commo
plough in dry weather, breaking u
and partially turning over the subso
without bringing to the surface, but a
lowing the top soil at the next turn c
the upper plough to fall lightly on
broken and friable mass, instead of o
o sort of cast-iron floor. The Ian
should be MANFRED before ploughin
and subsoiling so that some of tn
manure falls among the subsoil. III M
Mechi.