. Barn plans and outbuildings . ous with the newly con-structed additions to the old roof. The feeding floorand driveway is thus changed to a crosswise position ofthe barn, taking less space and affording greater roomon either side for stock and fodder. If the barn has asecond floor the new arrangement will afford much greate. 56 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS space above, while the whole of this space above the mainfloor will be finely lighted from all sides. Though theremodeled barn is changed greatly in appearance, theadditions are of a nature to make the expense compara-tively light. A plan f
. Barn plans and outbuildings . ous with the newly con-structed additions to the old roof. The feeding floorand driveway is thus changed to a crosswise position ofthe barn, taking less space and affording greater roomon either side for stock and fodder. If the barn has asecond floor the new arrangement will afford much greate. 56 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS space above, while the whole of this space above the mainfloor will be finely lighted from all sides. Though theremodeled barn is changed greatly in appearance, theadditions are of a nature to make the expense compara-tively light. A plan frequently followed in enlarging a barn is toshove out the end and side, and to cover with a flat tinroof connected with the former building at the gives floor room and some room for hay and grain,but there is nearly always a scarcity of mow room, andthis style of enlargement does not permit of storing awaymuch hay under the low roof. It is depth and hight whichcompact hay and vastly increase the capacity of the Fig. 48—THE OLD AND THE ENLARGED BARN A few years ago F. G. Homan of New York had occa-sion to enlarge his barn, which was twenty-six by fortyfeet, with a double-pitch roof. He wanted more room forboth stalls and fodder. He added fourteen feet to thewidth, thus making the barn forty by forty feet, butinstead of putting on a shed roof he lowered one side ofthe shingle roof, and, sliding it onto the new plate, raisedit to the same pitch as before, and then connected thetwo sections with a nearly flat tin roof, forming an endview like the one shown in the left side of Figure 47,The dotted line indicates the former shape of the has never been able to raise enough to fill this seems to be no end to its capacity, for the addition. llEMODELlNa AN OLD BARN 67 IS practically in the center and is forty by fotirteen bytwenty-four feet. The expense of the alteration was $184. REMODELING AN OLD BARN In enlarging the farm work and dairy at The Pi
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