Identifier: corngrowingjudgi00bowm (find matches)
Title: Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bowman, Melville LeRoy, 1881- (from old catalog) Crossley, Bruce William, 1886- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: Ames, Ia., The authors
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Pig. 104. PORTABLE GRAIN ELEVATOR. Easily moved from one crib to another. Shrinkage begins the last of October each year and porcnutage taken each month.J901-0i corn of the previous year used but noi recorded. In TESTS IN OTHER STATES. 209 The crops of 1899 and 1906 will be noted as very well matured.The crop of 1903 will always be remembered as the year of the soltcorn. Tests in Other States. *Three joint owners of a tract compri.sing 6,000 acres of land, decided to make a careful test and determineexactly how much corn does actually shrink in weight when huskedand cribbed under such conditions as are usually found on the ordi-nary farm. To this end, they erected, in the center of the tract men-tioned, a double crib, 26 feet wide by 250 feet long and 10 fc^ highat the eaves, with a driveway 8 feet wide through the center, and aand a good, tight roof over all. Near one end of this crib a small office was built and a set ofstandard scales put in. Husking began October 22d and ended De-

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