Show A new granary 11 1 1 flour FLEUR AND AVD grais GRAIN A mr adams in a late lata number of the journal of the london society of arts llis ilis has liis made a guga suga suggestion estion fora for a new liev kind of granary by which lie thinks that grain may bo be safely and effectually preserved for a any y number of yeara years tt TI e great difficulty now ia is the tile natural iiA ila tural lural mois mols moisture bire dire contained in all grain and which k oliell it is never eu entirely divested of by exposure to the llie atmosphere at the tile common temperature and that id the chuse cause of so much spoiled wheat and sour musty flour ifor beck beek of albany has given the analysis orsini ples of flour from froin various sections of tile the country shou ing luga iuga a p percentage of water rain ranging cring from 11 5 54 1 loo per cent ant to 13 80 per cent ve we have biafore us ili iii llie tiie anelfia linalys andi andl sla sis fia is of flour fro from in wheat odthe of the fol owing states sidles which contained fie fiu proportion proportions a ol 01 water mater annexed to wit NEW rew JERSEY jensey il 1 IS new KEW va tore TORR genesee vir wheat lipat 1335 1235 OHIO flour front louisville 1285 four nour fro from 11 1265 1285 ILLINOIS ILLi nois NOti four from 1290 four from frum bruce mill ulli fill 1320 MICHIGAN Mi culGAN noir coir from front honroe monroe 1310 MICHIGAN of v wheat beat heat 1151 W flour lour wms mav there 1390 1380 A slur flour fl ur from royd voyd 1 oyd county countr 1175 arraet ar av rago rage al per ont o nt that il m pro provably abis ably a fair average of all the flour litt kimt we buy that ii is per every annd ed ont oui out ids of flour wo we must deduct over twelve and three fourt fourth po pounds for the water that it con contains taink taing 1 Is 1 I it any rny ny wonder that flour turns turus ard that alter atter it has spoiled it is bought by bei bel ulia alfa at a to low w late and converted inta sweet ewt et bread by a vile ad dicion of dru T Num numerous erdus clars have havo been deviled for pret prel prewar mr ill grain gram aud flour so that it may he be kept safey lei leg roub any length of or time lime but iut millers ni illers certa certainly itil j neven nover vrigil adopt the process which aich is somewhat expensive and the tha most inot approved methods consist of or drying the flour by steam heat chile ille life ii a direct premium on tit lit nip HIP sio sae kle ale of wat watt r all of or oun nur inspection laws are based upon the quality of pour four P ur as it regards fineness and white whiteness riss ziss and not upon u 0 o n df vries plies and besides not one coli consumer slimer in tell ten his the least idea that dry fine fill wheat flour is water unter they wi I 1 not believe it when told of it mid and pro bably biLly would not vot give for foi a bar rl r l 1 had been rendered so dry tint it might ha bo heipt kept 11 i I 1 a damp cellar dilough inore snore than for the damn damp olie olio to pay pas OLId oils tenth of L mile the cost of dr dry y tl aher flur fiur flum Is elt 1 1 freil fresh aroun ground d it does doos do idt inetter lat lal it is a well ascertained fact that half balf t i of or the tile flour that is not eaten for six months monti is after it was packed has commenced th tir chemical change which precedes entire decay vast sims sams of money maney are lost every tear year to tile tiie growers of wheat by mouldy bouldy grain and they often hurry it into market markit to avoid the adiger of summering it over river and warehousemen know now how bow frequently they have to shift the grain in bulk to keep it sweet all this mr adams pro proposes poss lo 10 obviate b by a fyee new plan of constructing granaries live ve ae free cosay to say that we like ilke this plan but we are aren ware aware that prejudice is a tyrant particularly among farmers against anything that innovates sob bob so odly boldly upon old customs as putting putt rg grain down celler instead of up garrot garrat ga rrt lo 10 preserve it from atmospheric in moisture ois I 1 yet prejudice does sometimes give way to 0 o a reasonable proposition and we therefore lat lai tills this new plan before those most roost interested for them to begin to think of and we do hope to live to see the day when air ight and rat proof store rooms for crain will be among the new fashions of the dart dar dav inan tran both ot I 1 in ili town and country tho tile following are mr adams observations upon the tiie subject there does not seem to be any difficulty in the matter if we divest our ourselves of preconceived ideas of the notion that a granary or grain recep ticie vicle must necessarily be a building with a floor or win windows dovra doirs more or less multiplied ili in altitude we may reason by analogy us Vs to what is ill cheapest and most effective means of perishable commodities from the action of tile tiie atmosphere mo sphere and vermin in england we put our flour in sacks brother jonathan puts ills bis in barrels which does not thoroughly answer if brother jonathan wishes really to preserve his liis flour or bs ills crackers undamaged lie makes them thoroughly dry and cool and hermetically seals them III in tin cans this also is a common process to prevent goods being damaged at sea tea the thy chinese not having much facility for metal manufacture line wooden chests u with til ill thin sheet lead or tin till and pack their teas in them in evaland we keep our tea and sugar in cases of tinned sheet iron we preserve meat in lit tinned cases hermetically sealed we put fruit into settled sealed bottles in all cases the object is li to exclude the air aa as well as vermin 11 there can be no doubt that if we were to put dry wheat in lit a hermetically sealed tinned case it kept asiong agthe famed mummy wheat of egypt this will readily tye tie admit admitted tedo but the tiie expense would be queried let us examine luto into this A canister is a metallic reservoir so is a ga ometer so is an iron water tank in a ship at a railway station or elsewhere and a cubic foot toot of water oil on a very large scale will be found to cost very much less than a cubic foot of canister on a sn snail all ail scale and A ad if a bushel of wheat bein beia be more valuable than a bushel of water it will clearly pay to put wheat in fit huce linge of iron the tile wheat canister ca hisler in short should be a wrought or cast metal tank of greater or less size according to the wan walis walls st of the owner whether for the llie farmers failers fa imers arpp carpl or tile llie grain merchants stock 11 this talk taik tank should be constructed of smil part connected by screw bolls and alid consequently easily transported from pice piece to tiace place the internal parts should be galvanised galvanized galvani sed to prevent rust rusl and the tile external part also if desired it should be hermetically tight at nii nil tiie llie points and the only opening should be what is called a manhole man mau hole hoie that is to sav say say a canister top where the lid goes oil on large elou enough gil gli to admit a 11 man when filled with willi grain the tilo top should be put on tle the filling of tile llie edge forming all an air ligat joh joil t t what wheat put dry into such a vessel and without any ver veni idin inin iiii would remain wheat any number of years but an all iid sid dit ional lonal advant advantage aLm to ucil lucli a reservoir would be an till air ak pump by the application of which for tile the purpose of exhaustion any casual vermin would be killed if the grain were moist the same air pump might be used lo 10 draw or force fore a current of warm air through it lo 10 carry off lle ile lie llie moisture ry by tills process and subsequently keeping out the llie air tile the grain might be for auy any length of ilme lime agthe As tiie llie reservoir won would id be perfectly bl til I 1 liilie lit ailt and watertight water tight it might be ile buried in tl ill e ground with perfect safety and cellars might be lle rendered aai aal available lable for lor granaries iii space of comparatively little value the gram grain would be evi cr frily liy ily poured iu in from tile the sur fur surface fuce and to it an all archimedean Archi crew should be used the size of the re reservoir should be apropo biond to the tile loca lora ily fly and it should lidd a specified number of quarters FO so as to serve be a measure of quantity and prevent the nse rifle of me terae m if constructed above the ground groi ird a stair or ladder must communicate 1 i l li it the upper part and the lower part must be formed like it hopper for the tiie purpose of f discharge for many farm localities ibis arrangement might be best and wheat might be thra hedi hedl ito erbiti groin direct from the field and stored it Granai granaries ies les of this description would occupy 4 less than one I 1 third hird the cubic space of those of the ordinary de 1 flip ilip ion and til ill ihrer ir co cot cost t won d be less than one fifth with this security fot storing safely a farmer would hare les hesitation in ili cowhig sowing great breadths of or land laud ile he would not be driven lo 10 market under ai an average value and choose his own time for bellit belling iz the fear of lo ios los loss s being di dispelled belled people would buy with less hesitation and the great food stores of the community rutin tty ity would by a wholesome comp competition killon iii it sue su ure wre e tile the great civis nos s of the ille community community against a it hort short supply but ehu agn g long as uncertainty uncertainly shall prevail reval in ili the tile storage of grain so lom low long iong it will be a perilous trade to those it and and so long will the food of tile the immunity om be subject to a 1 very irre irregular sular Fular fluctuation of prices there is nothing difficult in lit this proposition it is merely applying existing arrangements to unusual cases there needs hut the thel practical example to ba be set by 1 influential people and tile tiie great mass will tra ve vel I I 1 in n the ilia sartie sarrie track to the wealthy agriculturist it will wili be but bu pw tile of or the tile principle of f ahe the fia fla tin lin eliud corn corl bin that keeps out the tile rat from the t b e oat oats s of the tabie hable table were this ofle of ree ret rvin g grain t r become general lle ile tile lie facility of ascertaining stocks blocks and nud crops after affer reaping would be very great tile thel gran grav granaries arles aries being measures of quantity no hard liard mease measuring ring would be needed and the tire effects of vet wet harvest weather might be obviated there is no calculating the tile value of such granaries in the southwest south west wesl where it is next to impossible possible to preserve wheat and very difficult to keep deil corn on account of the weevil cur curculla culia ex |