. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . SHOWING THE METHOD OF SLIDING THE HAY DOOR WHEN THIS ISLOCATED NEAR THE RIDGE. THE TWO LOUVERS AT THE EAVESARE AT THE TOP OF THE VENTILATING DUCTS FROM THE ROOT CELLAR BELOW. WINDOWS AS SHOWN BY THE DETAIL IN FIG. 22. FARM BUILDINGSFOR CLIFFORD V. BROKAW, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L. I. THE COW BARN 77 can be taken out at will
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . SHOWING THE METHOD OF SLIDING THE HAY DOOR WHEN THIS ISLOCATED NEAR THE RIDGE. THE TWO LOUVERS AT THE EAVESARE AT THE TOP OF THE VENTILATING DUCTS FROM THE ROOT CELLAR BELOW. WINDOWS AS SHOWN BY THE DETAIL IN FIG. 22. FARM BUILDINGSFOR CLIFFORD V. BROKAW, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L. I. THE COW BARN 77 can be taken out at will, and should be in the summertime,when the blinds are used instead. The blinds are hooked inand remain stationary in the window openings throughout thesummer months. It is possible to close the building entirelyby the blinds, and they regulate in a very satisfactory waythe amount of light and air admitted. In the wintertime it isadvisable to have storm sash in the cow barns, and these oc-cupy the same rabbet as the blinds and are hooked in placein the same manner. The windows, as well as the doors, arebest without trim, and the frames should finish flush with theplastering. Even a half-round trim is unsanitary and col-lects dust to an amazing degree. Windows in the cow barn should be 3 ft., 8 in. from the floorand run up as near to the ceiling as possible. The flanges onthe cheeks at the side of the window must be arranged so thatthe sash may
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