SEPTEMBER 6 ISSUE ANSWERS: The corn crib is on the Romeo Historical Society Barn Tour on Sept. 23. During the last ten years the tour has included numerous corn cribs. They are diffidently out of use today. Corn has long been a staple diet of Americans. The first ones in 1701 were crisscrossed logs with a slanted roof to keep the corn cobs dry. Later boards constructed the sides with spaces between the boards for air flow. Corn must be dry and have air flowing around it to keep it from molding. Sometime the crib was mounted on posts with pie plates in-between so that rodents couldn’t spoil the crop. The corn crib in the photo has two slanted storage areas. The slanted sides allow the corn to be protected from the rain and snow. Not only the kernels were used, but the cobs when dry were used for smoking foods or kindling. This crib has a drive through for storage of farm implements. Was this the beginning of the American barn? R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff