Show ti r. r J I PLAN FOR CATTLE BARN t I I Gives s Accommodation Accommodation for Forty Cows Cows' and Twenty Calves Sub Will WUl Will you kindly give me a aplan aplan plan for a cattle barn for forty cows and twenty calves with three or four box stalls I have bave a bank on the northside northside north northside side about ten feet high from which I should like a a 8 driveway In the basement basement basement base base- ment which I propose propose to be of stone running from east to west I want a apart apart apart part of loft to be a granary with a Toom room below it for preparing food The cheapest way to supply water water to to the cattle in the stalls I intend sinking a well in the barn and erecting a wind wind- mill mm The plan shown provides 39 single cow stalls 14 calf stalls and 4 box J stalls stalls' with fe feed d room under the gran gran- ary For cleaning the cow stables there thero is a passage nine f feet et wide between between between be be- tween each row of cattle running the full length of basement so that a cart cartor or boat may be driven through and manure taken out The barn beginning begin begin- nh ning g at the tho east consists of at a a. foot 16 h E ew twO M R I bent then a 14 a a. foot 12 driveway then two feet 14 bents making 70 feet in all There should be an overshoot of ot six feet teet on the east side of driveway driveway drive way in the barn to give e room for a team to pass under if there should be bea bea a loaded wagon on the drive floor U It desired a a. window in any of the feed alleys at the west end of barn may bo be made in into Into to a door to get into the base base- ment By having a a. large tank kept full of ot water and another small one connected connect connect- ed with It and the water trough in front of the cattle the animals will always have a 8 continuous supply of water The small tank is so arranged with a float that as the cattle drink the water in the trough the water in the small tank is lowered This Thin causes the float to fall opening the valve and allowing the tle water to come in from the large tank As the water rises in the small tank it also raises the float which shuts off the water from the large tank Tho The water in the troughs troughs-in in front of cattle is therefore therefore there there- fore always kept at an even height The water troughs are put in front of mangers and can be arranged so as to to- have bave a lid Hd on hinges at one side of manger which the cattle will learn to to- lift when they wish to drink The lid Id id J will drop back of its own accord |