Old Farm Buildings & The Multiple Uses Of The Corn Crib.
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- Talking about the necessary buildings on a self sufficient farm. One that was very common and useful was the corn crib.
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Corn Pop was a bad dude, he lived in a corn crib.
Brings back memories. I'm almost 76. We had all those buildings, corn crib, barn, chicken coop, tool shed. Also, outhouse, root cellar, pig pen. Clothes line. 40 acres. Party line phone, didn't get a tv till I was about 10. 🙂
Great memories for me too. Take care.
Thanks for this memory. I know my grandparents had a corn crib, but I don't remember much about it. My parents didn't have a smoke house, but he built one out of an old refrigerator. We had the chicken coop with 100 chickens per year. That gave us 2 chickens for Sunday dinner minus Christmas and Thanksgiving where we had turkey. My dad built a cabin and put his root cellar underneath of it. You just opened the trap door and went down for your carrots or whatever it was. I enjoy your stories of the old ways. We should learn them because we may need these old ways. Appreciate your sharing.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I wish I'd been raised on a farm and learned practical things. Not sure why I'm drawn to gardening, canning, hanging my wash out, sewing, crocheting, soap & candle making... I'm the odd ball in the family. Not even my grandparents did any of those things. I think I was switched at birth.😄👍 Love your treks down memory lane. Blessings.
Thanks MR. I used to work at a living history museum that recreated life in 1880's Texas, and we had smoke houses, corn cribs, and coops at all the homesteads, from the rich cotton farmer, to the poor tenant farmer. They all had those three buildings.
Growing up spent allot of time at our relatives farm and remember playing in the old chicken coop. Corn crib and all the out buildings crawling all over the equipment and trailers. Great memories. Thank y'all and have a blessed day.
Keep the tips coming, the old stories are the best! Thanks 🙂
Thanks for the share, Modern Refugee. Have a great week. Correct, smoke house, brooder house and coop. Corn crib
You have a great week to Al.
My grandparents had round brooder houses. Three of them.
Spent a lot of Saturdays on the farm my dad grew up on. Dairy, chickens, hogs, gardens, woods to hunt. A creek at the bottom of the hill. Yep, good memories!
88 degrees today , then back to the low 70’s , high of 65 it says for Friday , all rain in the forecast , really windy today
It’s hot here.
@@ModernRefugee we had a storm yesterday , 11:35 a.m. , came outta Home Depot and the sky was black ! Rained so hard for 45 minutes that cars were pulling off the road , because their windshield wipers didn’t work fast enough , glad it didn’t Hail ! The store signs & telephone poles were were swaying
I’m live by a lot of Old Order Amish and Mennonites. I still see the Amish using corn cribs and have thought about making one for the homestead but I can’t justify it since we don’t grow dent corn. I think something else to remember for future use is a spring house and/or an ice house. The Amish around me use ice houses and the walls are VERY thick and comprised of foam boards. Instead of cutting ice from frozen lakes or rivers the Amish put out lots of 5 gallon buckets and let them fill up with rain water in the fall and let them freeze in the winter. They then put the ice in their ice house. I have talked to a few Amish they say that the ice will last until about September on average. Lots af variables that will determine this. As always a great topic from Modern Refugee.
Thank you!
Thank you for keeping this wisdom from the old timers alive.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful information. Love going down memory lane!
We still see remnants of the corn cribs in our area. There’s actually one still in use. I remember when I was a child or even older teenager. They were everywhere.
I remember those buildings...my grandparents had a pumphouse where they stored canned goods and a hog hanging in the corner... best place to cool off in the summer 😎👍
Our old corn crib blew down in a windstorm a few decades ago. I watched many a sunrise and sunset on that old corn crib. We made a chicken house out of the top of it that lasted for many years. It's always sad to see the old buildings go.
Yes it is.
100° heat index in Upstate NY this week. Its only JUNE !!!
Yes. It’s only getting worse.
Wonderful story. Thank you
Hello !
Hey there!!
Good story, thanks! I help a friend rebuild a 100 year old corn crib in St. Clair county and I was surprised at how sturdy it was. It had hammer made square nails which were almost impossible to remove. So sad how much knowledge we've lost.
Our barn had a corn crib built into it. I converted it into our chicken house when we moved here. It works well for the hens!
We used a old vertical chem tank for a calf hut. They are illegal for chems now and they will give them away. I could store Xtra wood in those still.
What I want is the old dug out root cellar. Just built to modern standards with a back hoe instead of a shovel. I've got a few other buildings I'd like to add to our farm.
Hi MR. I remember somebody in the family had a corn crib. The dried corn was easily ground for cornmeal. Different looking than modern dried corn.
Thanks.
Thank you!
I remember Daddy cussing what he called skipper flies because they got to a ham in his smokehouse. We didn't have a corn crib. Daddy built a building to house what he fed the cows, cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls. We grew field corn, but not enough to feed the cows. I'm growing field corn now mostly to shade the west side of the house. I want to try making hominy this year if it produces.
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching!
We’re binging your last 3 videos, since YT didn’t notify us of them. I’m utterly shocked that YT would do that.
Thank you! YT does what it wants.
@@ModernRefugee If YT was a man I’d say he was evil. Thank you. Keep doing what you’re doing. People are listening.
Never heard of a corn crib before. Corn wasn't really a thing up here. Needed to create some that could grow up here 1st - now we have a few eating and cattle fed types but still difficult to grow. Good video always like learning something new.
Thank you!
Good info, thanks MR!
Good video, thanks for sharing YAH bless brother !
I used to see them around but i haven't seen any in awhile but i bet that there's still a few in Elsie.
When the Indians dried meat & fish long long ago , did they have salt ? Or just air dried naturally
From what I have been told they would dry/smoke the fish by the camp fire. They would make racks and hang the fish trough the gills.
@@ModernRefugee like in Old Westerns ,
@@joelaichner3025 the Chippewa did that by the Tittabawasse River down here.
@@ModernRefugee Google says that river is polluted with dioxins , Ya I Google things , had to make sure I wasn’t missing a joke ? Funny Name
@@joelaichner3025 yeah it is now. That was long before Dow Chemical.
Was it stored with the husk on ?
What did they do with the stalk? 🌽
Husk was off. The stalk was usually tilled back in or composted.
Sometimes fed livestock with it.
After they harvested the corn, did they remove the husk, or did they leave it with the husk on? Also, what did they do to help prevent rodents from damaging the corn?
They took the husk off. Farm cats were the defense against small rodents and dogs & shotguns for large ones.
@@ModernRefugee Thanks, Modern Refugee!
I have also seen where they wrapped the post with tin in a manner that would not allow mice to climb up the posts and then into the crib. No idea if it works or not.
@@3adscout826 That might work.
It works. They use this same process in the Caribbean islands at the base of trees near houses so that they don't climb trees and into the hotels, homes restaurants. @@3adscout826
Have a awesome day, stay hydrated wow super hot 🥵
You stay cool too.