. 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 . ng for only three stalls for farm horses, two box stalls forriding-horses, three cows, a calf pen, together with a dairy,farmhouse and sheds. The dairy has been devised in the form of an octagon, andoriginally had an exterior stairway up to a mans room arrangement formed a tower which greatly increased thea
. 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 . ng for only three stalls for farm horses, two box stalls forriding-horses, three cows, a calf pen, together with a dairy,farmhouse and sheds. The dairy has been devised in the form of an octagon, andoriginally had an exterior stairway up to a mans room arrangement formed a tower which greatly increased thearchitectural effect of the buildings, but was discarded forsanitary reasons, as it was felt that the mans room was toonear the dairy. Probably this objection is more sentimentalthan real. The scheme is so laid out that the farmer can gounder cover directly into the cow barn and horse stable; thedairy being separated from the cow stable in the usual way. 148 MODERN FAEM BUILDINGS In the plan it will be noted that the door to the dairy is shownopposite the door to the cow barn. This is as it should the construction of the building the owner felt thatodors, germs, or something vague but contaminating, mightblow from the cow barn and the yard into the dairy, and the. Alfred Hopkins, Architect FIG. 44—PLAN OF FAEM BUILDINGS AT WOODBURY FALLS, N. T., FOR CHARLES E. RUSHMORE, ESQ. dairy door was changed to the opposite side of the is, perhaps, a natural view of the layman, but an er-roneous one, as the milk has been already exposed to con-tamination in the cow barn and the injury, if done at all, hasbeen done before it reaches the dairy. Though it is no greathardship, in a small plan of this character, to carry the milk
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