Indiana, Jackson / Bartholomew County, Corn Crib
The corn crib was located at the Bartholomew/Jackson County line. The high and narrow corn crib was used to store corn for drying for feeding livestock. The crib has wooden vertical slats to allow air to circulate through the corn, allowing it to dry. Horizontal slats at the top also assisted in ventilation. The crib is elevated on a concrete floor to keep rodents out and probably has a wire mesh inside as further protection against rodent or vermin infestations. It has a shed roof to prevent settling and to shed water. Hatches in the roof were used to fill the crib with field corn. Corn was removed from the bottom of the crib by removing upward facing overlapping slats on wedges at the different interval along the base of the crib. In this way the removal of corn could be done more systematically and uniform. The slats on the narrow end of the crib could be removed to enter the crib to remove corn.
Indiana, Jackson / Bartholomew County, Corn Crib
The corn crib was located at the Bartholomew/Jackson County line. The high and narrow corn crib was used to store corn for drying for feeding livestock. The crib has wooden vertical slats to allow air to circulate through the corn, allowing it to dry. Horizontal slats at the top also assisted in ventilation. The crib is elevated on a concrete floor to keep rodents out and probably has a wire mesh inside as further protection against rodent or vermin infestations. It has a shed roof to prevent settling and to shed water. Hatches in the roof were used to fill the crib with field corn. Corn was removed from the bottom of the crib by removing upward facing overlapping slats on wedges at the different interval along the base of the crib. In this way the removal of corn could be done more systematically and uniform. The slats on the narrow end of the crib could be removed to enter the crib to remove corn.