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Farm Storage House

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

There ought to be on every large farm a separate houso for the storing of fruit, potatoes, roots and other perishable crops. Tbe teroperature can then be properly controlled and proper accommodatiou provideU - something the ordinary house cellar very inadequately seoures. The Farm Journal says that where loose field or cobble stones are at hand in large numbers, eitber in piles or in the shapo of useless old stone walls, an excellent plan is to make such a house of these etones, laying them up in lime and cement. Wbere the stonea are right at hand a house can probabiy be built of tbera cheaper thau of wood, and wheu well built nothing but the roof will ever need repairs, while the interior temperature will be muchmorcequable than in a woodon building. This building gives opportunity to drive iu on the upper floor, so that potatoeg, apples, etc., can be unloaded iuto gently inclined troughs haviug a latticed work bottom, that will sort whatever goes over it, and will convey the different sizes of fruit or tnbers into different receptacles. - A team can be backed into the basement to load. Such a building will be wonderfnlly convenient, and where crops are large very profitable.

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Ann Arbor Democrat