Corn is generally put up in cribs made of rails, but the rule will apply to a crib of any size or kind.

Two cubic feet of good, sound, dry corn in the ear, will make a bushel of shelled corn. To get, then, the quantity of shelled corn in a crib of corn in the ear, measure the length, breadth, and height of the crib, inside of the rail; multiply the length by the breadth, and the product by the height; then divide the result by two, and you have the number of bushels of shelled corn in the crib.

In measuring the height, of course the height of the corn is intended. And there will be found to be a difference to measuring corn in this mode, between fall and spring, because it shrinks very much in the winter and spring, and settles down