. 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 . -resisting paint,as the ordinary oil paint would be discolored by the actionof the cement. It is possible to avoid all wood in the interior of the cowbarn, except in the doors and window sash. In some in-stances, where perfection has been sought, iron window framesand doors have been installed, but they are much more
. 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 . -resisting paint,as the ordinary oil paint would be discolored by the actionof the cement. It is possible to avoid all wood in the interior of the cowbarn, except in the doors and window sash. In some in-stances, where perfection has been sought, iron window framesand doors have been installed, but they are much more expen-sive, being harder to set and to repair, and rather more likelythan wood to need repair, so that wooden doors and windowsash seem to answer all requirements, even from the strictesthygienic standpoint. The doors, however, are better ifsheathed smooth on the inside than paneled in the ordinaryfashion. The idea of doing away with all dust-catching pro- THE COW BARN 31 jections should be carried out even to the very smallest point cannot be insisted on too strongly, for it is aston-ishing how the dust from the hay will collect wherever it canfind lodgment; for this reason even the muntins in the win- SHIN<3LESSHINGLE LATH. o. c ROOF PITCH8-o OM IZ-o. JAETfcL CHttKS o -z a a I wd I I I I | j FIG. 5.—SECTION THROUGH A COW BARN 18 FT. WIDE •SIDINQPKPE.*- HEATHINlq $TuD»y ix a* o. c SIUL 4-»V IO«CONCRETE. dow sash are designed without moldings, while all horizontalmuntins are best omitted entirely. SIZES.—The various State legislatures in the UnitedStates require that cow stables shall allow a volume of fromfive hundred to eight hundred cubic feet of air per cow, butan average between these will be all that is necessary. This,reduced to the simplest formula, will work out about as fol-lows :— Cow stables for double rows of cows should have a miuimnm 32 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS width of 36 ft.; for a single row of cows, a minimum widthof 18 ft. The
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