The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
RAT-pRooF GRANARN.
How to Build One That Is Sure to Civ
Satisfaction.

How to Build One That Is Sure TO Give
Satisfaction.
An agricultural writer says he would
not advise any one to build a granary
with a buggy-shed attached, as it could
not be built rat-proof. l have one
built on that plan, that has never had
rat or mouse in it yet. 1t is lox2O
feet, with a driveway through the
center, running the long way OF the
building, 10 feet wide, with a CRIB
4 feet wide on each side. One crib
is cut off within feet of the end, and
there 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 addl-
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 stills are SXS feet. There
are four sills running lengthwise e
feet long, with two cross stills Is feet
long: two mud stills u 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 III inches, u feet long; the
inside posts are only 9 feet high or
Just enough so that man can stano
in his wagon and shovel off his corn
without humping his head.
Over the driveway a bin can be
made at each end, 9 feet wide, 10 feet
long and 4 feet deep. BY putting
partition in each one there will be four
bins that hold about 80 bushels each.
Then there will be a space 9XlO feet to
throw corn into the crib, and to draw
grain up and dump it in the bins. A
ten-vear-old boy can lift the sacks up
as fast as a man can dump them III the
bins, by using two pullies, three feet
of rope and a horse. | have spout
that just comes through the floor or
each bin, that has slide to close 1t,
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 | want to run any
grain through the tanning mill have
an extra spout which l hook on either
7 of the spouts, and it just reaches to the
t hopper Of the mill, feeding the grain
in lust as fast or slow as desired. Put
the sills of the foundation on stones Il
, inches from the ground. Lay the crib
, floors single and the driveway double
7 of any hard lumber. Let the siding
a extend over the stills eight inches
T so that the rats have no place
to sit where they can reach the hool
: to gnaw. Make the door battened be-
low, Con the driveway ten inches
7 and make it when shut just right t.
7 pass over the floor. 1t is too thick fol
q rat to gnaw through, and they viii
q not undertake it. See that the cracks
:. in the siding are close enough so tina
a mouse can not get through.
Ihave doors 1896 inches inside mex
'e to the driveway that Will let the corr
g roll out on the floor of the drive-wa.
~ so that it can be easily loaded into tn
IS wagon without going into the crib.
es have a way TO let the grain out o
e, those small bins, which makes it hand
W to feed ] do not need to get in, o
reach in to get it. In the drive-wa
1r there is room for two buggies and
/, tanning mill and ample rOouns%o &c
e to the feed at any time. In buildin!
" of this. kind there is room for 700 bush
l els-oT small grain, 1000 bushels c
a corn in the ear, and one key locks u
r the whole. No tin is needed aroun
If the posts; no truck to load the wagon
d no stairs to climb, and once shovelin
the corn puts it into the crib. l ca
IS set as many sacks filled with chop as
ic want in the driveway without fea
e of the rats cutting holes in them
10 Cor Ohio Farmer.