. 20^ THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. of floor. It is easier, however, to bnild an octagonal barn tlian a roimid one, for tlie timbers are much more easily put together, and the structure is much stronger; each corner binding the whole in an equally solid manner; in truth, more, so, than in the round one or the square. The i3lau here given is one of 96 feet of wall, that is, twelve feet on each side, by which there is room for nine places for feed- ing on each side, thus giving accommodation for a large flock if several feeding racks are scattered about between the middle rack and the outer ones. It is we
. 20^ THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. of floor. It is easier, however, to bnild an octagonal barn tlian a roimid one, for tlie timbers are much more easily put together, and the structure is much stronger; each corner binding the whole in an equally solid manner; in truth, more, so, than in the round one or the square. The i3lau here given is one of 96 feet of wall, that is, twelve feet on each side, by which there is room for nine places for feed- ing on each side, thus giving accommodation for a large flock if several feeding racks are scattered about between the middle rack and the outer ones. It is well adapted to lamb rearing, on account of the number of small pens which may be made large enough for a ewe and its lamb OCTAGONAL BARN, «^ ^°^* *^^^ °^' ^^''^^ ^'^"^^'' *^^ middle space bemg used for feeding the lambs by turning them out when the ewes are brought in to suckle them. A barn built on this plan may have tw^o floors, by which the capacity is doubled at a very small increased cost, the main floor being three feet below the surface and the upper one four feet above, and being reached by a plank walk at each door. It is to be noted that the capacity of such a barn as this is increased four times by doubling the diameter, and one-half increase in this, that is, from twenty-nine or thirty feet to forty-five, will make it two and a half times as capacious. The method of building such a barn is much cheaper than that of the square or oblong form. The floor should be of cement concrete, and it is best to have the foundation for the sills of the same material, but it need not be over six inches thick, merely to raise the timbers from the ground. The sills may not be over four inches thick, and eight wide is sufficient. The corners are merely halved together and bolted with a one-inch iron bolt. The scantling for the walls for the two floors should be six by two inches, and a row of these is placed in the middle of the building and rest on posts six inches square. Th
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