Show RAIN RAIU AND AUD DAMS DUtS Hf Reports ports to the effect that large luge Quan Quantities Quantities titles of or hay bay ha and grain Iraln were ere Injured by b the recent heavy hea I Iett ed ett a 1 practical farmer to say cay 13 to a R representative of ot the News that If Ir Iho tho were cre built up as u they the ought to tobe tobe tobe be there would be no danger of Injury Injun by rain The Tho gentleman says sa he has baa had experience In this matter for many man ars t and he Is positive that when hen hay till or Is spoiled In the stacks It ItIs itis Is h because of ot their faulty construction Very err ery often h he sy the tho stacks are made In layers or Of even nen slop lop sloping lopIn lag ing In toward the c nt r until the top topIa Is III very no nearly reached when they are rounded oft off The rhe result l I is according to 10 this practical farmer that part flut e v ethe the moisture mol ture finds II its 1111 way Wa IT toward the center Instead cf ot running conning off ort outward as M It ought to do The Tho remedy Is I ho he says lays In t n build the stack alack rounded off otto full In iii le te e renter enter tram from th tile the very err foun toun foundation dation of It and never n tr permit It to have han any other ether shape shapo during the entire process 1 of If It this Ihla Is dons done he say PC water liter will 11 not Injure Its con contents contents n tents tont because It will 11 soon run off art from all parts part I of ot It The rhe suggestion stems seems to be le good tood and practical and It U is worth worthwhile worthwhile while acting upon as II It does doea not take any an more mere labor to build n a 1 stack tack that way va than the way Ay that Is to be common However the chief damage damare done by bythe bythe bythe the recent recoil rains rAin we e believe bellee was to grain then Ihen uncut and heaten buten down don by bytho bythe bythe the tho atomic and the consequent rust rull that ensued tossed and to hay lying on the tha ground round partly drying then bleaching and RII becoming lf discolored and much of It spoiled spelled When Vie harvested and ami even evenIn en enIn In hi stocks before etore stacking grain gnUn has not DOt teec M so very er much by br the rains and haystacks hallack are usually sloped or rounded off oft as II stacking goes on al although although though carelessness in that particular Is sometimes noticeable The ne quoted alro has haa Ideas on the construction of dims dams When he roads raWa In the paper raPer hf ht MJ U 5 about done by b the burr bursting ting of ot dam dams he feels feela certain that In Itt every Instance faulty fault construction Is III to blame Ime A A dam built hullt In A straight Itral ht line unless very try Kill A has haa not the J our of re resist ance anee sometimes needed h n the tilt clouds loud burst byul and uti Immense volumes of or water ar If are to be bt restrained In their cour e coure What Is II needed d Is ii a Ii dam I buRt buRr In the form of an arch lreh that talt pre I seats Its convex COrnu aid ld to k the UI water aUr It If the are arc made strong e h huch such uch an arch cannot bt be j jr ji jJ r i J j J t We present ent these thesa suggestion to 10 the tho traders readers of ot tho the They lucy may pos pee possible sible be Le of oC assistance to some lomo of them and anti help hell them to save Have valuable proper property ty t 1 They Y may ma not bo be new ne to who have passed pied many years cara In the tho of or experience but hut to 10 others they may be both new and valuable I |