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Corn Crib, Rat Proof.
A correspondent of the Practical Farmer gives the following directions for making that most necessary of farm buildings—a rat proof corn crib. He says: "Build a good substantial house, 12 feet wide, 8 feet high and as long as you want it. This will give you 8 cribs, 1 on either side. Put your building on stone pillars, 1 foot, or more, above ground (mind, the pillars must not be wider than the sill, else the rats will stand on them). Side up with lath 2 1/2 x 1 inches of hard wood—I used oak—putting them on up and down, being careful to have them just 1/2 inch apart. The gables and any part of the building that does not come in contact with the corn can be sided up with common pine boards; for bottoms of cribs, laths length wise, 1/2 inch apart; balance of floor between cribs lay tight, of pine boards. My building has a string of ties between the sill and plate to nail to and cross ties to hold the building together. Every 8 feet of these ties spike a good strong scantling, or plank across them lengthwise of the building as far in from the plate as you want the width of top of crib, then set up studding from floor, as
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