. Agricultural engineering; a text book for students of secondary schools of agriculture, colleges offering a general course in the subject and the general reader. Agricultural engineering. 420 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING ings on the north side of the building are criticised severely by some as being highly undesirable. On the other hand, the principal redeeming feature of this type of house is that the windows may be placed so as to do the most good. The half-monitor roof is usually built about 24 or 30 feet wide. desirable that the alley-way be 8 feet wide, to permit a team and wagon to b
. Agricultural engineering; a text book for students of secondary schools of agriculture, colleges offering a general course in the subject and the general reader. Agricultural engineering. 420 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING ings on the north side of the building are criticised severely by some as being highly undesirable. On the other hand, the principal redeeming feature of this type of house is that the windows may be placed so as to do the most good. The half-monitor roof is usually built about 24 or 30 feet wide. desirable that the alley-way be 8 feet wide, to permit a team and wagon to be driven through the house when desired. The pens at either side may be from 8 to 12 feet. ._£. Fig. 267. A cross section of a hog house with half monitor roof. This is located so as to extend east and west. deep and about 8 feet wide. Fig. 267 shows a cross-section of a house with the windows well arranged. A cross-section of a gable-roof hog house is shown in Fig. 278. The sunlight enters the east windows early in the morn- ing and travels across the floor, as the sun rises higher, until nearly noon, when it is excluded until it begins to shine in through the west windows. It is to be noticed that this type of house uses less material than the first, owing to the fact that there is not so much space in the upper part of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davidson, Jay Brownlee, 1880-1957. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Pub. Co.
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