. 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 . PLANS OF FARM BARNS 157 The Briakcliff Faem, White Plains, N. Y.—Fig. 49 This shows an extended barn containing stalls for two hun-dred cattle, the plans of which were drawn by Mr. Robert , New York City. This is strictly a commercial plant,but worked out carefully with a view of fulfilling the mostexact sani
. 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 . PLANS OF FARM BARNS 157 The Briakcliff Faem, White Plains, N. Y.—Fig. 49 This shows an extended barn containing stalls for two hun-dred cattle, the plans of which were drawn by Mr. Robert , New York City. This is strictly a commercial plant,but worked out carefully with a view of fulfilling the mostexact sanitary conditions. This barn was a unit of a group. Robert W. Gardner, ArchitectFIG. 49—PLAN OF THE BRIARCLIFF COW BAKN, PINE PLAINS, DUCHESS CO., N. T. of some three structures of similar design which were locatedat various places on the farm. To this barn has been addeda milk cooling room> locker and wash room, sterilizer andboiler. Although there is elsewhere a central bottling roomwhere all milk is bottled, the milk is cooled, the cans washedand sterilized at the farm barn itself. Each barn has there-fore its own dairy, equipped with every modern appliance forthe care of milk except the bottling table. _^ The ventilation is entirely satisfactory, the outlet ducts be-ing the size of one stall and running from the floor of thebuilding up through the roof to a height of 40 ft. While thesevents are unsightly, yet in a building of this character thepractical thing must prevail, and nothing more practical thanthis arrangement for the outlet duct could be devised. The 158 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS inlet duct, instead of being placed in t
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