. 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 . rated from the building, as was done in thefarm barns at Sterlington, N. Y., for Francis Lynde Stetson,Esq. Architecturally the silo becomes a difficult problem, forwhile it is certainly typical of the farm, it is a most unman-ageable thing to the architect. Perhaps the best way to dis-pose of the silo is to place it
. 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 . rated from the building, as was done in thefarm barns at Sterlington, N. Y., for Francis Lynde Stetson,Esq. Architecturally the silo becomes a difficult problem, forwhile it is certainly typical of the farm, it is a most unman-ageable thing to the architect. Perhaps the best way to dis-pose of the silo is to place it among the trees, where its rigidoutlines are softened, but unfortunately such an environmentis not always available, and while it is possible to enclose thesilo within a construction that shall partake of the appearanceof the rest of the buildings, yet to erect one structure in orderto confine another, seems unarchitectural in the extreme. THE COW BARN 67 The wooden silo must always be placed upon a masonryfoundation. (Fig. 18.) The bottom, made of concrete andwithout a bell trap, should extend some four or five feet intothe foundations; otherwise if the silo is placed directly on theconcrete bottom the juices from the ensilage will leak through /QRADt. 3TAVI SILO BARN fLOOR-LCVEL j -COVE / 4 COM FLOOR -IS FIG. 18—SECTION THROUGH SILO FOUNDATION the lower doors. By sinking the floor of the silo, the\Liquidswill be contained within the foundation walls and this\unde-sirable but usual condition avoided. 68 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS With any silo, the architect will have to inclose the doorsin a chute three feet wide and two feet deep, running from thetop of the silo and stopping within seven or eight feet fromthe floor. As the ensilage is thrown down the chute it is neces-sary to have light and ventilation at both sides and especiallyat the top. Care should be taken that no nails are driventhrough the silo and that no other projectio
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