. Barn plans and outbuildings . o $4 a cow. To be sure, such a stable willnot look as large and pretentious as a $400 or $500 barn,but it will do just as well for awhile. If cheapness isto be the watchword, here is a plan given by S. of Illinois that will help many a poor good posts are to be had get them nine feet long. Sup-pose you have four cows. Build your stable eight feet 124 BARN PLANS AM) OUTBUILDINGS wide, sixteen feet long and seven feet high. The postswill be just about four feet apart all around the two by fours on top for plates. Nail on girths
. Barn plans and outbuildings . o $4 a cow. To be sure, such a stable willnot look as large and pretentious as a $400 or $500 barn,but it will do just as well for awhile. If cheapness isto be the watchword, here is a plan given by S. of Illinois that will help many a poor good posts are to be had get them nine feet long. Sup-pose you have four cows. Build your stable eight feet 124 BARN PLANS AM) OUTBUILDINGS wide, sixteen feet long and seven feet high. The postswill be just about four feet apart all around the two by fours on top for plates. Nail on girths atthe ends of the building and side up with twelve-inchboards. Instead of siding up the two sides, make a doorfor each cow to enter her stall on one side, while theother side is for the manger. This manger may be madethree feet wide and three feet deep, either flaring orstraight. Remember now, that this manger is outside thestable, as shown in Figure 114. The depth of mangernext to the cow should be about two feet. Now hinge a. flAHCEft 3 \ i ,..^:.... ....• ^ 8 <#.•••? 1 n H\i Fig. 114 END VIEW AND GROUND PLAN big door up next the plate, letting the lower end rest onoutside of manger. This makes a flaring side to thestable. To get hay or fodder into the manger, or to cleanthe same, raise this big door and hook it up with a big,strong hook to a post set especially for the purpose. Makethe stalls four feet high. Now for the roof. A ten-foot two by four cut throughthe middle will make a pair of rafters. Nine pairs, spacedtwo feet, are sufficient. The ends of the manger may besided up if desired, and the swinging side or door neverlet down lower than the outside of manger. This doormay be cut into two sections if too heavy to handle. Ifgood posts cannot be had to set in the ground use sawed BUILDING STRAW BARNS 125 posts and set the building on blocks or stones. In thiscase drive half-inch iron pins in bottom ends of posts andfit them into holes bored or dril
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