Iron County register., 1889-03-14
RAT-PROOF GRANARY.
How to Build One That Is Sure to Give
Satisfaction.

How to Build One That Is Sure to Give
Satisfaction.
An agricultural writer says he would
not advise anv one to build granary
with buggy-shod attached, as it could
not be built rat-proof. I have one
built on that plan, that has never had
a rat or mouse in it yet. 1t is lox2O
feet, with driveway through the
center, running the long way OF the
building, 10 feet wide, with crib
feet wide on each side. One crib
is cut off within feet of the end. and
there l have three small bins SKA feet
and feet high. One is for oats. one
for chop and one for wheat. The oats
bin holds about what oats are required
to feed my horses one year, in addi-
tion to the corn feed. The wheat bin
holds enough wheat for bread and
seed for one year. The chop bin holds
enough chop to feed six cows one
month, which is enough to get ground
at once. The sills are SxS feet. There
are four sills running lengthwise %
feet long, with two cross sills 1S feet
long; two mud sills II feet long.
hewed on two sides only, reaching
one inside sill to the other inside sill,
for the sleepers for the floor of the
driveway to rest on. The outside
posts are 7x7 inches, II. feet long; the
inside posts are only 9 feet high, or
just enough so that man can stand
in his wagon and shovel off his corn
without bumping his head.
Over the driveway bin can be
made at each end, 9 feet wide, 10 feet
long and feet deep. By putting a
partition in each one there will be four
bins that hold about $50 bushels each.
Then there will be space 9x1O feet to
throw corn into the crib, and to draw
grain up and dump it in the bins. A
ten-year-old boy can lift the sacks up
as fast as a man can dump them in the
bins, by using two pullies, three feet
of rope and horse. l have a spout
that just comes through the floor of
each bin, that has slide to close it,
through which l let the grain right
into the sacks on the wagon. By be-
ginning at the front end of the wagon,
and pulling the wagon along as the
sacks are filled, do not need to move
the sacks. When l want to run any
grain through the tanning mill have
an extra spout which l hook on either
of the spouts, and it just reaches to the
hopper of the mill, feeding the grain
in just as fast or slow as desired. Put
the sills of the foundation on stones IA
o1nc 16. ",
floors single and the driveway double
of any hard lumber. Let the siding
extend over the sills eight inches,
so that the rats have no place
to sit where they can reach the floor
to gnaw. Make the door battened be-
low, (on the driveway ten inches
and make it when shut just right to
pass over the floor. 1t is too thick for
rat to gnaw through, and they will
not undertake it. See that the cracks
in the siding are close enough so that
a mouse can not get through.
have doors 1Sx36 inches inside next
to the driveway that will let the corn
roll out on the floor of the driveway
so that it can be easily loaded into the
wagon without going into the crib. l
have way to let the grain out of
those small bins, which makes it handy
to feed. / do not need to get in, or
reach in to get it. In the driveway
there is room for two buggies and a
tanning mill, and ample room to get
to the feed at any time. In building
of this kind there is room for 700 BUSH
els of small grain, 1000 bushels Of
corn in the ear, and one key locks up
the whole. No tin is needed around
the posts; no truck to load the wagon,
no stairs to climb, and once shoveling
the corn puts it into the crib. / can
set as many sacks filled with chop as /
want in the driveway without fear
of the rats cutting holes in them
Cor. Ohio Farmer.