Show bant AND STORE piano for commodious Commod loua structure tore fop for the parm farm M mcm kindly publish a hoor plau for basement barn tet feet ions and 40 feet wide to ac u commo date 36 cattle 8 horses and to havo have two box stalla for cattle rattle and two for borage besides a root house to hold 2600 bushels a silo IZ I 1 feet square and ft a place I 1 manure how hick thick should the ils be and bow deep deop should the foundations be laid 2 how should the barn be laid out above and hov how lung should the posts be bet 3 the barn bam will be built rn clay eoll soil yards from a running stream could water be drawn from this stream by a windmill and what size of pipe should be used the accompanying plan contains five single horse stalls two box stalls SWIG for horses hersee 38 cow tails stalls and two box stalls for cattle the manure shed is at the end of building with a door doar at each side wide enough to di dailve lye a through to draw the manure out the root bouse house is under one of the driveways drive ways and extends along the aide side 0 1 4 1 0 cil T ground floor plan of stock barn A stable 11 feea room C c cow ow talle stalls D behind cattle rout gettem tera 0 stalls II 11 manure Manur abed shed I dibuo atlo J boathouse ventilators X of barn towards the rilo it is 18 12 by 40 feet and 8 feet high it should bo arched over with concrete and have two ventilators in the arch these ventilators are used to nil fill the house with roote toots and there should be a window at each endom end of root hhuse for light ther should also 1 be cold air pipe coming in near the floor for ventilation Ula ti tion the ventilators in the arch answer for the otake pipes A root house the size gaven given will bold hold about 1600 1500 bushels of roots as one bushel of roots occupies about 2 cubic feet should the root house not be large enough it can be turned fumed with the end to the basement of at barn between the driveway and silo and making it 20 by 30 feet and 10 feet high it would then hold about 2400 bushels the allo Is placed beside the other driveway and Is 1 twelve feet in diameter and built round silos ned med to be built on the inside of barns but of late they ar built on thi th i outside la in fact for the last six yeata I 1 have never built nor seen one built on the inside of a barn 2 the barn above should have a mow IS 18 feat wide over the horse stable then 12 feet for a driveway then two 20 foot mows and a 12 foot driveway and then an 18 13 foot mow over the manure shed the posts of the barn should be 18 feet long the stairway will go down inside of the mow the door opening from the edge of the driveway floor the hay bar and straw may be thrown down doors in the side of the mows in each jach driveway 3 you can draw the water from the stream providing you do not bare hare tn lift it too much and a 1 pipe would be large enough 4 ii li the wall la Is built of atone stave it should not ba b less than IS 18 inches thick it of concrete one foot Is to thick enough the foundation should be put down at leabo inches and after the wall Is completed the soil should be graded up 8 inches higher this will always keep the ground drier and allows the water to run off and not settle along the wall 1 N B E |