. 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 . ately swing backinto position. Doors 2 ft. wide and 6 ft. high are large enoughfor the average problem. The windows should be numerouson all sides, and blinds, after the manner prescribed for thecow barn, are desirable during the summer. The protectionof the fowl in winter by dropping a curtain enclosing theroosts is
. 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 . ately swing backinto position. Doors 2 ft. wide and 6 ft. high are large enoughfor the average problem. The windows should be numerouson all sides, and blinds, after the manner prescribed for thecow barn, are desirable during the summer. The protectionof the fowl in winter by dropping a curtain enclosing theroosts is a good thing, but a little heat throughout the entirehouse is probably better, though this should mean more venti-lation, not less. In the killing-room a dozen small coops areplaced in which to confine the chickens preparatory to thatoperation. All roosts, nests, etc., should be removable for easycleaning. All dust projections should be eliminated, and theold-fashioned whitewash for interior finish is as good as any-thing. Fig. 64 shows the plans of a chicken house that wasdesigned to meet, if possible, all objections. Skylights wereput in the southern slope of the roof to give additional sun-shine in the pens in the winter and also to afford better venti- °—~K>—r. >oo H Wo«n p «o o o M o n mtnPoHK w WQ w o &o «! CM I [186] OTHER BUILDINGS 187 lation at all times. In the front of each pen is a door 2 in. wide, the remaining space being taken up by a largewindow; the sash, divided in the center, is arranged to openin half or entire. By this means the chicken house may bereadily converted into the Open Front type—from all ac-counts a very good one. By closing all the windows and doors,it may be made at once into the tightest kind of a TightFront type—from all accounts a very bad one but still de-
Size: 950px × 2629px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhopkinsa, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1913
