Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . It is necessary to havewould not be necessary to have a door at an opening through the floor over thethe outer end of the feed alley, but it is drivewav to use a hay fork The opening 44 RADFORDS PRACTICAL may be boarded around and used as a great extent upon the kind of farming car-chute to pitch hay down through for feed- ried on and the other buildings on theing, but such details must depend to a farm. Hog House and Corn Crib—A140 Hogs and cor
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . It is necessary to havewould not be necessary to have a door at an opening through the floor over thethe outer end of the feed alley, but it is drivewav to use a hay fork The opening 44 RADFORDS PRACTICAL may be boarded around and used as a great extent upon the kind of farming car-chute to pitch hay down through for feed- ried on and the other buildings on theing, but such details must depend to a farm. Hog House and Corn Crib—A140 Hogs and corn may both be kept in thesame house economically by building ahouse like the one shown in plan (A140).The building is set up from the groundabout a foot on posts and pens are madein the usual way with an alley between. The floor above to hold the corn slants each way from the center. There is aboutseven feet head room in the middle overthe alley and the floor slopes to about fivefeet to the sides of the building. This isfor two reasons, to get the corn down aslow as possible and to divide it into twoparts to prevent moulding. It is also nee-. BARN PLANS 45 essary to put a slatted partition on bothsides of the floor ridge if the house is filledfull of corn. There are two windows ineach end and the hog doors are hung with Because of the shape of the corn floorit is necessary to support it well in the cen-ter which is done by running the alley par-titions up to the floor joists above. This
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