----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Harding" <dharding@c...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Grain elevators
> My recollection of the round corrugated grain storage bins is that they
> first began appearing in the 30's. Manufactured by Butler, they were
placed
> in rural areas in large numbers by the US Government as "cheap" grain
> storage for area farmers who could not afford storage, but also could not
> "afford" to sell their grain for the current rate. The idea was the
> government provided cheap storage facilities so a farmer could store grain
> for later use or sale. You still can occasionly find one of these storage
> "farms" with several rows of bins near a rural crossroads or corner along
> the highway. When I lived in eastern Iowa I had several farmers who were
> still using them, the rent was cheaper than buiding your own.
. . . and from *my* time in southeast Iowa (mid-'40s to mid '50s), a
variation on the Butler Bin - using the roof and thesideposts, but sheathed
in wire hogfence for the storing of unshelled corn . . .
Marshall
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