Show Io Goon BARN FOR fOA FORi I I OWNER i OF HORSES i Design That Provides Healthful and Comfortable Quarters IS PROFITABLE INVESTMENT This Modern Structure Is I. Equally Good f for r Dairy Herd as It Is I. Planned and Equipped for Either By WILLIAM A. A Fi RADFORD Air Mr A A. Radford Radford d wilt will Answer questions and j give advice FREU FREL OF OP COST on all subjects pert pertaining to the tho subject of ot building work on the farm Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the readers of oC this paper On account of hIs Ms wide experience as aa Editor Author and Manufacturer r. r ho he Ja is Is without douW the tho highest authority on all nil th these se subjects Address all Inquiries to William A A. Radford Radford Rad Rad- ford No 1827 1627 Prairie avenue Chicago Ill and only two-cent two stamp tamp for Cor reply Notwithstanding the popularity of ot the tractor and automobile there are many farmers tanners who retain their love 10 for tor horses and find that the breeding and raising of ot them for tor sale Is Just as profitable as It was before the advent of the power driven machine For farmers and horse breeders here Is Js a design for tor a barn that will provide the horse with a n comfortable and healthful health health- ful tul place In which to live lIte With With- Its gambrel roof and vertical battened siding this barn Is attractive e from the exterior and will make an addition to the farm building group of which the owner can be proud But what will appeal most to the modern business farmer fanner Is the layout of the Interior which has been devised so that the work of caring for tor the horses can be done easily and the animals themselves will be well wen protected from w r- r ALLtY LL 11 DT Lib fE Din LL 1108 L TALI 5 AUtt ALLf r 1 the weather while at the same time they will have fresh air and the tIle other things necessary to keep them healthy and capable of ot doing their best work The barn Is of ot frame construction 40 by 72 feet In It are 18 IS single stalls two double stalls and two box stalls besides the feed teed room and harness room The stalls are arc placed so that the horses face the feed alley running through the tIu center of ot the barn making the work of ot feeding them easy At either side of the barn is a Utter litter alley which by the use of tin to overhead carrier carrier car car- rier Tier connecting with the manure piles or pits at the rear also make maIm It possible pos sible elble to save e considerable labor At ei each l fh ch stall head Is an oat or corn box bor while white with st steel el stall partitions and nud movable stanchions and drinking caps alpS which furnish the animals fresh freshwater freshwater freshwater water whenever they desire to drink this will make a barn baru that compares favorably with the best Nine windows on either eUber side of the barn bom permit the entrance of fresh air and sunshine The size of the barn Is such that there Is room for a large mow big enough to store the winters winter's supply of roughage While the th stalls as here shown were designed for tor horses this barn Is equally equal equal- ly Iy good for the dairy herd The needs of horses and cows and the work of ot caring for them tt are not greatly different different differ differ- ent a and th the arrangement here herc shown of feed n and d litter alleys the stalls and storage ornge room Is practically the same as in the up date dairy barns This Is the sort of a n barn embodying embody embody- ing as It does docs the modern features every nry farmer now no wants and knows ore are most profitable that Is being erected on a 0 majority of or far farms s. s It Is I well wen constructed Is weather tight Is ms provided with good ventilation and Is Isso isso so BO arranged that the work of caring for tor the animals it houses can be performed performed performed per per- formed In an easy and economical manner That Is is' the type of barn that thatIs Is as wanted wonted It has hns only been during the last few tew rears years that farmers have come to realize real real- ize U se that the in Investment estment In good build build- ings pays n II Ir great prent nt hi big dividend in better and more productive livestock lI and und Inthe in inthe inthe the saving rondo made on the labor necessary necea- necea 8 sary nry to care citro for tor the animals The labor In la bor shortage e. e the high price of or teed feed l lond and ond the generally Increased oo c cost st of r producing producing pro pro- lr farm products t have brou brought ht tho the fact that better buildings menu mean larger profits forcibly to their attention During Daring tho the next few years alS more and aud better buildings than ever eer have be been n erected by American farmers armors will be put up One of the reasons for tor this prediction Is the lie many Farm arm Improvement Improvement Im Im- Im b bIng being being be be- provement Savings Clubs that are ore ing started IJ by banks throughout the Savings Sav Say SayIngs country A Farm Furm Improvement ings Club Is nothing more than an application of ot systematic saving saying to tho the needs nerds of the time farmers It however has hns the ad advantage of providing an nn incentive for saving that farmers are taking ad nd vantage of or In great numbers It u 11 pro provides pro plU I vides Ides an un easy method for tor the farmer to accumulate a sum of or money sufficient for new farm buildings g and improvements improvements im im- im old buildings pro on the It I Is is however t to his business sense sene that good modern modem buildings appeal A good home for or Instance has been found to be he the greatest hold he can have c on the young people peole to keep them themon on the farm And now that the gas lS engine has hns made possible running water electric light and mechanically operated hou household hold equipment such as ns n washing machines vacuum cleaners and the other saving labor-saving d devices that dwellers In Ul the fire are used cons constantly by larger larer cities there Is no reason wh why the farm home cannot be as comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- homeI home home- able and convenient con as the city without the drawbacks of smoke dirt I and j city youn your more mori cona con cony conva conya I a gr the thel born Tl Ti abo ri L ji 4 F I 7 I DOU L U I I 1 STALL t d 1 Li LA LAAy q Ay RacK 1 I DOUBLE OX TAll STALL I I ILD I LD I as forcibly as blU ability will p permit t to the h II attention of farmers the value of modern modern modern mod mod- ern high-grade high farm buildings |