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Farmers no longer need to coddle the cobs on which corn grows, thanks to a new advance in grain storage methods recently reported to the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
The development is a grain drying and storage unit that makes the corn picker-sheller a practical harvesting machine for corn growers, and cuts farm labor ana storage costs. D. B. Poor, agricultural engineer for the Great Lakes Steel Corporation's Stran-Steel Division and A.S.A.E. Farm Structures Division chairman, reported to the Society that shelled corn of up to 25 per cent moisture content can be dried successfully with unheated air while stored hi this unit.
"This means.” he said, "that the time is now at hand when farmers can eliminate much of the work and structural costs they now put into coddling the cobs on which corn grows.,r
The new unit was described as a 10-fL wide Quonset equipped with a unique down-flow aeration system. Drying and cooling the grain are accomplished by means of a semi-pressure propeller fan which draws unheated air into the building, down through the grain, into a central tunnel over which the grain is piled, and then out of the building.
“This unit will handle grains other than corn equally well/* Poor said. "It permits the small-grain grower to start combining earlier in the season, earlier in the day, and enables mm to combine when moisture conditions are too high for placing grain in ordinary storage."
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