Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . y. A box stall is almost an absolutenecessity sometime during the year citherfor sick animals because some special at-tention is required. The entire upper part is floored andthere is an opening over the storage andimplement room to pitch up hay. straw is too often left out when farm barn plansare made. It is not necessary to shut abarn all up dark, and it is not advisable todo so. Windows do not cost nuich morethan siding and the sun and light
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . y. A box stall is almost an absolutenecessity sometime during the year citherfor sick animals because some special at-tention is required. The entire upper part is floored andthere is an opening over the storage andimplement room to pitch up hay. straw is too often left out when farm barn plansare made. It is not necessary to shut abarn all up dark, and it is not advisable todo so. Windows do not cost nuich morethan siding and the sun and light let inis a great advantage to stock The floor of this stable should be of con-crete with the upper layer an inch thickcomposed of one part Portland cement BARN PLANS 65 and two parts clear soft sand but in mak-ing a floor like this it should be remem-bered that hard smooth cement is slipperyand dangerous. The passage way may bemarked off in diamonds with a regular tool driveway is of superior quality the cementtop layer should be more than an inch inthickness, perhaps two inches in the cen-ter tapering to an inch at the sides nextto the which presses into the soft cement aboutone-half inch deep, but if the work is doneon the farm and the usual masons imple-ments are not at hand, a smooth rake han-dle may be used by imbedding it in thesoft cement half its thickness. The handleshould not be more than three-fourths orseven-eighths of an inch in the concrete foundation in this PlA/^ or GA7^// In laying a concrete floor in anv buildingit is necessary to run a wall around theoutside and this wall should extend belowfrost. If the ground is inclined to damp-ness, it is better to run a three inch or fourinch drain tile all around the wall alongthe bottom and the outlet of this tileshould be carried away from the buildingeight or ten feet and terminate in a drain. 66 RADFORDS PRACTICAL A Plain Horse Barn—A161 A plain straight-away horse barn withten single stal
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