. Our farm and building book. . Thoroughbred Jersey Heifers-Beautiful as Young Deer-on the Hartman Farm near Dayton, Ohio. 32 OUR FARM AND BUILDING BOOK A 90-Foot Round Barn—DesignA254L Royal American pure breed cattle arebeing housed in magnificent buildingsnowadays. Such barns as these showthe appreciation that our best farmershave for the high-priced cattle that theyhave spent years in learning how tobreed and feed. Here is a round barn, 90 feet in diam-eter and 60 feet to the cupola. It isbuilt around a silo which is 20 feet indiameter and 48 feet in height. A roofconstructed on this plan
. Our farm and building book. . Thoroughbred Jersey Heifers-Beautiful as Young Deer-on the Hartman Farm near Dayton, Ohio. 32 OUR FARM AND BUILDING BOOK A 90-Foot Round Barn—DesignA254L Royal American pure breed cattle arebeing housed in magnificent buildingsnowadays. Such barns as these showthe appreciation that our best farmershave for the high-priced cattle that theyhave spent years in learning how tobreed and feed. Here is a round barn, 90 feet in diam-eter and 60 feet to the cupola. It isbuilt around a silo which is 20 feet indiameter and 48 feet in height. A roofconstructed on this plan is very rigid, The interior arrangement providesfor two rows of cattle in stanchions heading in to a feed alley which is 6feet wide. Steel stanchions are used,and there are enough of them to stall104 head of cattle in a double has been made for an over-. Ninety foot round barn, No. A254L, in process of construction in Iowa. Roof is sheathed with % by 2-inchstrips. Horse stable is concrete block section under bridge to hay mow floor. each rafter and each sheathing boardforms a tie to resist wind pressure orany other strain. The roof is self-sup-porting without cross bracing, whichleaves an immense mow room betweenthe silo and the circumference of thebuilding. Above the silo is a cupola, 6 feet inheight and 12 feet in diameter. Thebase of the cupola is a wooden ringwhich ties together the upper ends ofthe rafters. head litter carrier, around this feed ringto carry feed. Another carrier will cir-cle the rear of each row of cattle formoving manure. The desire is to savesteps at feeding time as much as pos-sible.
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