. Barn plans and outbuildings . ists of two thick-nesses of half-inch boards (the inner layer of pine andthe outer one of spruce), with tarred paper between,painted inside with gas tar and gasoline, mixed in theproportion of two to one. The siding consists of onelayer of inch hemlock boards, nailed to braces betweenstuds and covered with cedar shingles. Holes boredbetween each stud and covered with wire netting permita circulation of air between the siding and lining, whichaids the preservation of the latter. The structure is A KEW YORK BARN 107 roofed with dormer window for filling and with v
. Barn plans and outbuildings . ists of two thick-nesses of half-inch boards (the inner layer of pine andthe outer one of spruce), with tarred paper between,painted inside with gas tar and gasoline, mixed in theproportion of two to one. The siding consists of onelayer of inch hemlock boards, nailed to braces betweenstuds and covered with cedar shingles. Holes boredbetween each stud and covered with wire netting permita circulation of air between the siding and lining, whichaids the preservation of the latter. The structure is A KEW YORK BARN 107 roofed with dormer window for filling and with ventilatingcap, and is joined to the barn by a passage, also silo is emptied by means of the Schlichter methodof continuous opening, the silage dropping through achute two feet square, upon the floor of the passageway,from which it is conveyed to the mangers of the animals. AK ORANGE COUNTY, N. Y., COW STABLE A portion of the cow stables, built on at the north endof the barn, on an Orange County, N. Y., dairy farm, is. Fig. 97 INTERIOR OF ORANGE COUNTY COW BARN shown in Figure 97. The feeding floor is ten feet wideand each side twelve feet for stable. The main barn issixty by forty feet, the cattle barn sixty by thirty-fourfeet, with a milk room on the west side twelve feet cow stable is a one-story structure, with a fourteen- 108 BAKX ILAXS OlTBllUtlXCiS foot monitor roof, five window ventilators on each sideoverhead, three doors at the north end (two for cattle toenter), a smooth, clean floor, the Buckley basin wateringdevice, regulated by a tub of water in the milk room,Smiths swing stanchions, and a manure gutter in rearof cows. The labor of ventilation, watering, feeding and clean-ing the stables is here reduced to a minimum. Themain barn is packed full of hay annually. It also con- -1 ^^? CL C 1 u- ? 1 n
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