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The Rural Voice, 1983-08, Page 32FARM ADVICE Corn crib unloader Anyone interested in lowering the cost of drying corn should go and have a chat with John Wammes on the 6th of Hullett in Huron county. In 1967 John built a sixty foot corn crib, and then in 1981 added another forty feet. At this time he installed a Spedquip floor elevator the full length of the crib which allows him to offload the crib without a shovel. This is the second year the corn crib unloader has been used and the Wammes are very pleased with its performance. The corn crib is 100 feet long but only 61/2 feet wide with a 12" trough running down the middle where the Spedquip unloader has been installed. The braces, which are made of rough lumber, allows air to flow through the corn giving better aeration. Wammes built the crib to run north and south to allow the prevailing westerly winds to blow through the corn. In the fall it takes about 21/2 days to fill the crib with 80 tons of corn using a 2 -row corn picker. Because the crib is built on a cement base, there is very little loss to rodents. And the air flow is sufficient to prevent any spoilage of the corn. By July the corn was very dry, so on July 13th the Wammes held an open house to allow Everett Mellin and Paul Brophy, its performance to local farmers. Everything worked like a charm. The pto on a small tractor ran the chain for the floor elevator (Mellin says a garden cultivator could run it) and a steady stream of cobs automatically moved into the combine DUALITY PRESSURE CLEANERS SEE OUR NEW MODELS HOT! Ask about Add-on HOT water adapters SAFE RELIABLE EFFECTIVE eLtd epps Cimto�� Oman., NOM 1L0 Model 9415 shown 4 gal. at 1500 psi 519-482-3418 which soon filled a wagon with beautifully dry, yellow kernels. The husked cobs spewed out the back of the combine and dropped onto the corn elevator which car- ried them up into the pile. The cobs are later burned in the workshop woodstove, although Catherine Wammes says they make an excellent fire for a barbeque. The farmers at the demonstration agreed that the money saved by drying 80 tons of corn naturally, would pay for the crib in one or two years. But the big advan- tage is knowing that the corn which you have so carefully selected and grown and harvested is the corn you will be using to feed your animals. For further information contact Everett Mellin, Speedquip Industries Ltd., Dashwood 519-294.6757. Mobile seed cleaner A Canadian company recently introduced a mobile seed clean- ing unit. The President of Canadian Mobile Seed Cleaning Ltd., James A. Grieve. stated that the unit provided farmers with a "more effi- cient. cost-effective means of cleaning seed and grain." Each mobile unit is equipped to provide complete grain handl- ing and cleaning to the farmer's specifications right on the farm. Grain can be drawn from storage, conveyed, weighed, cleaned chemically treated. and bagged all on the single unit. The service is used both to clean seed for planting, and to prepare milling oats for shipment to Quaker Oats. For further information about the licensing program for mobile seed cleaning services, write or call Canadian Mobile Seed Clean- ing Limited, P.O. BOX 309, Kleinburg, Ontario, LOJ 1CO. The telephone number is (416) 775 -6994." - NOWAY FARMS *YORKSHIRES ••LpAE DUPOC NDRA Kkwse Fear and Sons PERFORMANCE TESTED Duality Swine, performance tested, health ap- proved gilts and boars from a herd with very good mothering ability. OS No. 1 York x Landrace gilts, open or bred, available on a regular basis. We also have excellent boars in the following breeds: York, Landrace, Duroc, Hampshire and Duroc x Hamp crossbred. Contact Wayne Fear MONOWAY FARMS 6 miles west of Brussels on Huron Road # 16 Brussels Phone 519-887-6477 PG. 30 THE RURAL VOICE, AUGUST 1983