Show aarm AND RO construction OF CORN CRIB modern farmer now doe elevator for fop cribbing crop section of building Is shown modern machinery and methods have brought about great changes to in harvesting the corn crop and the mod ern era farmer now uses a corn elevator for or cribbing his big corn in ift response to several inquiries and for the benefit of p those who intend to build new cribs to bo be filled w with ith tin an elevator we publish herell herewith t it a sectional drawing showing how the crib should be ba built how the umbers timbers should be placed and the various sizes of same says the iowa owa homestead the drawing shows a section lection of a 1 21 4 foot crib with a ten root foot driveway in the center and a grain bin over the drive the length in may ay be any size front from 25 to feet long in building one of these cribs it must bo be remembered that the root roof must have an angle of at least 45 46 degrees that Is tho the slope elope of the same A section of corn crib must be what Is called half pitch ine meaning aning that the distance front from the peak down to the plate must be I 1 half la if the width of the building this steep roof Is necessary to accommodate tho the corn conveyor and distributing spout which la is hung directly from the ra raft ft era for this reason caro care must at be lin uv ednot to have any croaa 0 ties elguer her up on the rafters than shown in the drawing the studs are aloe two by six inches set act 24 inches on centers braces A 11 and 0 are all two by six inches placed four feet on centers the TELf rafters are two by six inches set 24 indies inches on centers the sills it crib sets on piers should bo be six by six inches or six by eight inches square are A tie rod one halt half or fv five eighths its inches in diameter should bo be placed across the building ten feet apart aa a shown the guide boards are for distributing the corn evenly la in the crib but should not be ba nailed balled in place until the conveyor la 13 installed as in fit the distributing spouts in the various machines the spout Is so arranged that the he center studs forming the driveway may be extended up above the plate line as much as three feet increasing the capacity of the grain bin just that much the root roof may be ba covered with any material but a good composition roof la in recommended |