Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1914 — Making a Barn Grain Chute. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Making a Barn Grain Chute.

.. In barns where the grain is kept on the upper floor and fed out below It Is very convenient to have grain chutee leading from each bin so that the grain may be drawn near where fed out. In our barn we have one bln In the basesiunt, but I And it Is very handy to have chutes leading to each bln to draw out grain when not convenient to fill the large hopper. The cut shows a chute we have In use in one of my barns. We constructed it some ten or twelve years ago and have used It more or less ever slnoo.

The interior of the chute should not be less than six Inches square and for oats I prefer 8. The inter-