Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-09-01
BARRACKS ON FARMS.


irotectlnS Hay ana Grain.
While good barns arranged with all
the modern conyeniences are some
what expensive, simple barracks to
protect hay, grain and fodder, can be
built so cheaply that | wonder that
any farmer who has experienced the
loss and anxiety caused by stacking,
or by threshing from the shock, is will
ing to do without them. | have lost
on u single crop of COO bushels of
wheat, half enough to build barracks
to protect it, that would have lasted
twenty-five years without repairs. 1t
Is Il rather serious matter to have a
half-built grain stack soaked through,
and II severe trial to the patience of
the wife to cook for twenty men and
then have them driven from their work
by rain just as they have got fairly
started. have had the teams driven of
when stacking, the stack soaked and
the machine on my place a week, with
men and horses to board, and the hands
summoned four different times to
thresh an amount Of wheat from the
shock which the machine would have
threshed from the barracks in ejpht
hours. With a roof to protect your
hay or grain each load is safe ms soon
as in, and youneed not wait and watch
the clouds II the weather looks unset
tied, but go to work at once.
All that is necessary to protect eth
er hay or grain Is a good roof sup
ported on posts, well braced, but ns
an enclosed building can be made very
useful for other purposes, it will payto
enclose 1t. Where lumber can be had
Tor $3.50 per thousand, "A build
ing ~ feet by 40 feet can be
put up and enclosed for less
than $500. Such Il building would
store grain enough to thresh out GOO
or 8O0 bushels, or between thirty and
forty tons OF hay. II could be filled
with wheat or oats, and after this was
threshed 1t could be filed again with
corn fodder. 1t could easily be an
ranged with u temporary floor seven
ieet above the stills, and tho lower NM,
used for stabling during the winter M
one end for storing tools and the o,bor
for II stable. The building can bo
made with light timber, stills and most.
SIX inches square, girdcrs our by six
and nail ties four by four inches. I
would make the posts sixteen feet hioh
and would arrange to drive through
the center to fill the two ends and thon
MI the middle space from outsiao
This building could be used for curiro
special crops, such as beans, broom
corn or buckwhcat, which are cath.
cred between threshing time and ,ho
time corn-fodder needs TO he hon.od
About 2,4OO feet OF siding will be 70.
CURED to v 1t and 5000 shing,os
on many farms such "A BUILDING would
pay Tor ltsolf In loss than ton vo,,.
IN many cases it would be io,ned In
lhe barn ut quite Il saving of mato.
RIAL us the end next the barn wonld
require no weather boarding or frnm,
IL would often add TO the convenience
10 arrange 1t in this way. This harm
mould not DO cheap in the sense NJ
poor material, but its cheanncss oon
slsts largely in the fact that II 10 hill,
OIL light frame timber, and Tint !, m,
qoires no finish inside except n tomnn.
r''ry lloor' which may be made of nn,ls
Or rails until you u spare mon,, ro,
, better. | advise all farmers mb
nove not shelter for their grain 10
Judy TINS question Of tracks or cheap
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