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Show GOOD PLANS FOR C0RNCRIB May Be Used for Othor Grain as Needed and It Not Expensive Gives Fullest Preteotlon. In detailing plans for a crib to hold 1,200 bushola of corn, D. P Barry, writing wri-ting In Rural New Yorker, says: Ouch a building roust contain 3,000 cubic feet of Bpaco and support a weight of 42 tons. Tho desideratum In a corncrlb is ventilation. A building build-ing to contain 3.000 cubic feet of space should be 12 feet wide, 24 foot long and 10 feet between Joints. The foundation should be pins of concreto, and pyramidal. 1 by 2 feet on tho top, flvo feet apart on tho sides, thrco feet apart on ends. Tho center wall should bo continuous, and may bo of rough stono laid up roughly rough-ly in mortar. Good foundations should bo sought for. Stones with sharp angles an-gles weighing flvo to six pounds may bo used in tho pine; thoro should bo an inch of matrix outside all stones. Put the forms togethor with screws and Inch lumber planed. Lubrlcato tho forms with soft soap boforo filling; fill-ing; loosen scrowa to rcmovo. Sills should bo 6 by 6 inches, joists 2 by 8 Inches, 12 feet 8 lnchoa; studding 4 by 4 inches by 11 feet; plates and Tr55ffin"" " '"" " r . jL. a c Ji.l .A. . Xf f . . 4 Plan for a Corncrlb. rafters 2 by 4 Inches; plates should be doubled. Plnco tho polsta on top of sills and Bot Btuddlng woll toed to allls, 18-inch on centers, and thoroughly thorough-ly spike Joists to studding. Soo Fig. 472, A. Tho upper tlo Joists may bo 1 by 6 inches, woll nailed undor plate to Btuddlng. All material thus far preferably hemlock. Pieces Bnmo width aa Joists should be nicely nailed on studding between Joists on sill to prevent rats getting on sill from In-sldo, In-sldo, Fig. 472. Tho floor should bo of 14 gaugo perforated Iron, or lay one-half Inch mosh wire on the Joists and lay floor vor this. Tho perforated perfor-ated Bheots would furnish ventilation. On Insldo ot studding nail one-quarter Inch mosh wlro cloth, 11 to 12 gaugo, with light wlro staples, from floor to pinto all ovor the tnsido except at openings. Dctween the btuddlng cut In strips all around and to tho top. one-half by fj& Inch, bovclcd on edges to a miter. mi-ter. Those strips should bo set at an angle of 46 degrees and may bo thrco lnchoa apart. Uso window bllndB for model. Cut gains one-quarter by one-half one-half Inch in sidas of studding. See Fig. 472, 13. Put strips In place and toe with Btxponny nails. Strips nnd Btuddlng should bo surfaced, nnd may be set up In pairs nnd painted bofore being nailed in plnco. It will bo Impossible Im-possible to drive rain ovor these. Put a shelf high enough from tho bottom eo two widths ot one-halt Inch mesh wlro scroon will reach It; put sholf all nround at samo angle as ventilator slnts. Rats cannot climb over It, Put |