Show Cattle Feeding Plant Equipped I for Storage and Self-Feeding Self 0 s Y 1 w Ii 4 15 roY 1 e 4 uA Y I I M if I j ji V q i l ff h- h Z-o- Z ti i I c CION H AY ACK i I lly r 2 Iu u s f I vi o W J FEEDING as asi i W RACK PACK toil to Ato tot t I A W-o W I x i im o m WINDOW S ON k GALVANISED VERTICAL IRON i SECTION I I 0 o a-o I e N y V a at t C r O G N h b by c X Q 10 BRACES N 1 y 2 CHORD S ah n h MAY A Y MO Mow W Y TRUSS D 2 tIO o oo 27 2 PLATES I Lt J 1 I Iz z r STUDDING Or g A 12 12 5 SET T 24 4 OC l 0 d 10 0 04 0 a 14 4 0 NAY 1 t WINDOW a CARRIER AC STORAGE AC FRESN Q I 1 RACK T L LY TRACK Z o oT i i V L T 4 uC MANGER O T CONCRETE CONC E C 1 PLATES vi a FLOORS i I I 1 f l I 1 Tim oV ir 1 NUT I li 4 I jq ors I s I ACE FOR LOOSE I Ii n r r It 1 it b b HAY m i iE IO Id E io i ii o i d- d dd d i id a 14 I J n I U I 1 j lI 11 I I It t Aa 97 Na Y I li r g ti III S 0 t f ft 53 rm-r rm uc n SIto I at w wJ J A Sut Na By W A RADFORD Mr William A A Radford will answer questions and give elve advice FREE OF on all problems pertaining to the subject of building budding work on tho the farm for the readers of this paper On ac- ac account ac account count of or his wide experience as editor author and manufacturer he Is without with with- without without out doubt the highest authority on the subject Address all Inquiries to Wil Wil- Wil- Wil William WilIlam William liam Ilam A Radford No 0 South Dear Dear- Dearborn Dearborn Dearborn born Street Chicago Ill and only In- In In close two-cent two stamp for reply Everything points to n a low price price- pric for Cor Corcorn corn this fall and winter Inter and as a consequence growers glowers of ot corn COID will find It more profitable to market their crops through live lire stock than to make of It a cash crop By ensiling some Of the crop and husking out the hal hal- bal balance ance cattle feeders will have n u good stock of priced low feed this fall fall In order to make male feeding operations profitable buildings bull that will house time tile cattle and roughage an and the graIn rations to together ether with silos are needed neede Cattle that arc are kept kepl In a dry lot and practically pr unprotected from wInter weather use up a great amount of feed eed to produce body heat rather Ulan than to put on flesh llesh and fat which are what buyers pay for The cattle feeding plant shown Is an open ollen stable floor loor with equipment for hay storage e ean an mid hay ha self self feeding Between tile the two silos silos at nt the front Is the feed stor- stor storage stor storage age room roon and feed mixing room The equipment used to cut down the labor of feeding the animals Is indicated on the floor door plan ilan A section cross of time the ba barn rn and t me of time the lie details of 01 con con- construction construction also are ale given gl In n tile the cross cross- section cross section the materials use used an and the dimensions also niso are arc shown It will be not noted d on time the floor loor plans that time the barn proper prOpel is feet long and 34 feet wide wille The rhe stable floor Ioor Is open and nod lu in It tins has been Indicated hay hayracks hayracks racks for storing loose hay so 50 that the cattle can cnn have ha access to It all the time and along each cadi side Is shown a manger or feed eed bunk The barn has lias n a ventilation and is system of equipped wIth n an overhead carrier track truck load load- loadIng loading loading ing from Prom over the mangers to time the feed mixing room and to the silos This equIpment will cut down the labor of handling the feed and enable one aan to do de et st least as much work as us i 1 two If the carrier track was not In- In Include In Included clude eluded The silos are both 14 feet by 28 23 feet and anel are constructed of hollow Iloilo vitrified tile However Howe nn any other oilier good silo building material can he be used The barn burn Is of frame construction and a concrete floor door In time the lie stable stahle Is indicated However ever if the owner feels that this tins expense is not justified time floor could be made with two t or three inches incites of 01 cinders underneath the surface for drainage A concrete floor is better us nS It is more easily kept clean |