Show cattle feeding plant equipped for storage and self feeding AN V AD Z aw 14 14 1 fa 4 X y k 4 raw k awl AA I 1 I 1 t t ah I 1 lection alc thru FEEDING 9 Q PACK 11 9 wa 4 a C 41 X 11 1 tc T ax A I 1 J VERTICAL IRON marq I 1 b af VC N Y I 1 L axa Z I 1 ix X LO LUI BEAM 6 abr A CF 5 6 CHORD loll 1011 7 H AY MOW X log VV I 1 ral ann 1 LL A X F 5 IX I 6 F at U DD 1 N 0 5 M X 1 art za OC I 1 rt Z 0 10 0 a 0 M 4 guati I 1 I 1 ta D r Z 2 a 49 I 1 BON ai h AY MAY CARR IF R A C ac nga TRA T RA U appl ppl 0 ax hatm M N ca m ander CONCRETE I 1 k APT I 1 C aror t al 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 ja ld N A P 11 t I 1 C FEEDING faa anka FOUL hn C AM ILO APT 51 lo 10 vald MILO by WA W A RADFORD mr william A radford will answer questions qu esdone and give advice FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of 0 building work on the tha farm arm for or tho the readers 0 f this g paper on account delhi 0 of f his wide wid e experience e fience as editor edito r author and manufacturer he Is without doubt the highest authority on the subject address all inquiries to william A radford no south dearborn street chicago ill and only in close alosa two for or reply everything points to a low price for corn tills this fall and winter and as a consequence growers of corn will find it more profitable to market ket their crops through live stock than to inake biake of it a cash crop by ensiling en some of the crop and buskin husking out tho the balance cattle feeders will have a good stock of low priced feed this fall in order to malce make ceding operations profitable buildings that will house the cattle and roughage and the gra grain in rat rations lons together with silos are a re needed cattle that tire are kept in a dry lot and practically unprotected from winter weather use up a great amount of feed to prodica body heat rather than to put on flesh and fat which are what buyers pay for the cattle feeding plant shown Is s an opec stable floor with equipment for hay stI storage rage and hay self feeding between between tile the two silos illos at the front Is the feed storage tor I 1 room and fe feed ed mixing room the equipment used hocut to cut down the labor of feeding the ani nials Is indicated on tile the floor door plan A cross section of the born barn and orne cime of the details of con also arp are gaven in the cross section the mater lols used and the dime milons al also are shown it will be noted on the floor plans that til the barn proper is s feet long and 64 S 1 feet the stable floor Is open and in it t has been indicated hay rac eraclis is for storing loose h hay ay so BO that the cattle can ha haiti access to 0 o it all tile the time and along each side Is shown a manger or feed bunk bunie the barn lias hns f c system of ventilation and la is equipped with ab an over overhead liend carrier track londing loading loadho from froin over the mangers manger sto to ijo ho fed mixing room and to tile the alio raili tills equipment vylla I 1 I 1 cut do down wp the tha labor of handling anu 4 feed and enable one vian to do st rt least as much work as two it 1 the carrier track was not included the silos are both 14 feet by 28 feet and are afe constructed of hollow vitrified fied tile however any other good silo building material can call be used the barn Is of frame construction and a concrete floor in the stable is 13 indicated however if the owner feels feela that this expense Is not justified the floor could be made with two vr or three inches of cinders underneath the surface for drainage A concrete floor Is better as it Is more easily kept clean |