Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . lan(A123) shows a cattle shed ninety feetlong and ten feet six inches wide. It isbuilt of two by fours for framing, coveredwith boards twelve feet and sixteen feetlong which cut to advantage withoutwaste except at the ends. There is a low-down manger which runsthe full length of the shed against theback wall. The front side of the mangeris bedded in the ground which togetherwith a little banking on the outside pre-vents the cold winds from blowi
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . lan(A123) shows a cattle shed ninety feetlong and ten feet six inches wide. It isbuilt of two by fours for framing, coveredwith boards twelve feet and sixteen feetlong which cut to advantage withoutwaste except at the ends. There is a low-down manger which runsthe full length of the shed against theback wall. The front side of the mangeris bedded in the ground which togetherwith a little banking on the outside pre-vents the cold winds from blowing feeders fail to realize the importanceof this precaution. The north wind seemsmuch colder when it forces through asmall opening. There is something aboutthe bottom of a shed that seems to invite plank floor or the floor may be left out en-tirely and the ground leveled up with cin-ders except the stalls and the very beststall floor is made of stiff clay poundedin wet. Some of the most successfulhorsemen prefer a clay bottom stall. Cheap Cattle Shed—A123 a current of air from the north, but thisfeed manger arrangement seems to get. 74 the better of. Mangers should be low foranother reason. For thousands of yearscattle have been accustomed to feed fromthe ground. While in pastures they keep RADFORDS PRACTICAL The shed is supported by short cedarposts which are set well into the ground,the tops of them being cut almost evenwith the surface. The doors are made rw^cir/f i SECTION /7/V/7 fLHN OF C/fTr/.E ?S»€0 their heads down nearly all of the time,but for some unaccountable reason theyare expected to hold their heads two orthree feet high when being fed artificially. wide enough and high enough to get ineasily with a manure spreader, and thereare no posts or partitions in the way sothat it is easy to clean out the manure. Ice House Design—A162 An ice house to hold two hundred tonsof ice is given in this plan. This ice housewas built on a large dairy farm near ag
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