. The winter lamb . s one type well adap/ted to a Southern situation. The barn is36 feet square, 18 feet to the eaves, with a half-pitch roof and anopen center. The lower story is 8 feet in the clear and divided bymeans of racks into compartments as desired. It will be seen thatit is light and airy and cool in summer and when the doors are letdown it is fairly warm in winter. This barn cost to build less than^ with a good shingle roof, no floor but natural earth belowand rough flooring for the mow. It accommodates fairly well about75 ewes and their lambs. The hay is taken in from the end
. The winter lamb . s one type well adap/ted to a Southern situation. The barn is36 feet square, 18 feet to the eaves, with a half-pitch roof and anopen center. The lower story is 8 feet in the clear and divided bymeans of racks into compartments as desired. It will be seen thatit is light and airy and cool in summer and when the doors are letdown it is fairly warm in winter. This barn cost to build less than^ with a good shingle roof, no floor but natural earth belowand rough flooring for the mow. It accommodates fairly well about75 ewes and their lambs. The hay is taken in from the end and theopen dorway is turned to the south-east so that little or no stormever blows in. It could easily be closed, however. I [ B«| -1 LAWa CREIP I IvATEitT ZE zealPLAN OF BARN AT FILLMORE FARMS. 45 THE BARM AT FII^LMORE FARMS. Fillmore Farms, (W. G. Appleby, Manager, Bennington, Vt.)Mr. Colegates place has an ideal large barn for cool climate. Theground plan shows quite clearly the arrangement of the lower <ft. W O 45x100 feet. This barn shuts up tight in cold weather, four venti-lation shafts run up the purlin posts and then to cupolas, taking offthe foul air and not making drafts. The outer doors slide and there 46 are slatted doors that also slide up out of the way, when it is warmthe solid doors are back and the slatted ones in place. The roothouse is not a cellar, though dug down the depth of the foundation,but is double boarded with paper between and two air spaces andis frost proof. It is convenient to store wool in and the feed room isa good shearing floor. The passage is a handy place to pen andcatch sheep when shearing. The feed racks used on Fillmore Farms, the Tranquillity Farms f^eth
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