Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . FARM BUILDINGS. An Inexpensive Strawbarn AN inexpensive strawbarn, such asis illustrated in the accompanyin^jdrawing, is giving excellent satisfac-tion on the farm of Erskine McOuat,Browmsburg, Que. It consists of merely a 20-foot-square lean-to shedbuilt over the main barn doors on theside opposite the graded approach. Sucha shed could be used efficiently on manyfarms throughout the country. Very few farmers have sufficientbarn space to accommodate all thestraw at threshing time. On nearlvevery f^rm a stack is built. Thispractice is not only wastefu
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . FARM BUILDINGS. An Inexpensive Strawbarn AN inexpensive strawbarn, such asis illustrated in the accompanyin^jdrawing, is giving excellent satisfac-tion on the farm of Erskine McOuat,Browmsburg, Que. It consists of merely a 20-foot-square lean-to shedbuilt over the main barn doors on theside opposite the graded approach. Sucha shed could be used efficiently on manyfarms throughout the country. Very few farmers have sufficientbarn space to accommodate all thestraw at threshing time. On nearlvevery f^rm a stack is built. Thispractice is not only wasteful of strawto a certain extent, but it adds a greatdeal of hard labor to winter straw from a snow-coveredstack is no joke. Moreover where abarn is built on a seven or eight foolwall, the doors on the side oppositethe approach are of little use exceptfor purpose of ventilation. Mr. Mc-Ouat took advantage of this latter fact t6 overcome the former. He builta lean-to shed about twenty feetsquare over his doors, with the roofsloping from the eav
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