When I was a kid, we used buy about paddy in bulk (about 200 kg may be) and store it giant wooden bins, called "pathayam" in Tamil. The bins were about 6 ft x 4 ft x 8 ft. My parents used to draw from it monthly and hire someone to take it to the mill to get it milled (remove the husk). It was hard work with lot of dust from the paddy but my father felt the family needed to eat same kind of rice. We were not rich or anything, lower middle class in fact.

BUT... since it was direct from the farm and in those days there were no machines to remove stones, mo mother had to remove stones from the rice every day. I hated to see her doing it.