Archive image from page 150 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 AN AMERICAN OCTAGON BARN. 91 vehicles are to have access to the second fl(.)or, and a smaller oue would be required to eualile the cows to get to their stalls; built on a hill- side, however, these objectionable features may, the one in part and the other wholly, be dispensed with. To English notions, which do not favour more than two-storey farm-buildings, it seems somewhat odd that in America, where at all events land is cheap enongh
Archive image from page 150 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 AN AMERICAN OCTAGON BARN. 91 vehicles are to have access to the second fl(.)or, and a smaller oue would be required to eualile the cows to get to their stalls; built on a hill- side, however, these objectionable features may, the one in part and the other wholly, be dispensed with. To English notions, which do not favour more than two-storey farm-buildings, it seems somewhat odd that in America, where at all events land is cheap enongh, the practice should be to make dairy- barns three storeys in height; and especially odd does it seem that carts and waggons, loaded with hay or straw at harvest-time, should be taken up a plane to the third storey; but we have seen several of these three-storey barns in the United States, and can testify to their compactness and general practicability. The American idea is to have the forage, cattle, and manure all under one roof, and tliis arrangement, once completed, is decidedly a labour-saving arrangement, and is less ponderous than might have been thought. In England, on the contrary, even two-storey buildings are going out of fashion, and it is considered better to have cattle in buildings which are open to the roof, on account of the superior ventilation which is thereby secured, and to store the hay in ' hay-barns' siJeeially constructed for the purpose, while the straw is in the rick-yard adjoining, and that part of the buildings which is devoted to chaffing, pulping, mixing, &c., of food, is so situated as to be contiguous on the one hand to the cattle-sheds, and on the other to the rick-yard. But fashions change, and in course of time it may happen that we shall construct our dairy-barns on the American plan. Tliere are points in both systems that will repay attentive study, and possibly the advantages of each may yet be combined in greater degree than in any plan
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