Archive image from page 149 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 90 DAIRY FARMING. greatly interestod in improved methods of build- ing, Mr. L. Brush, we give a representation of an octagon basement, laid out, in the interior, on a circle, containing fifty-two stalls for cows or cattle, with heads towards the interior. For a fancy breeding establishment, these stalls might be made some 3 feet high, showing all the animals at one view, and with the feeding-car on track (c), and the car for running ou
Archive image from page 149 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 90 DAIRY FARMING. greatly interestod in improved methods of build- ing, Mr. L. Brush, we give a representation of an octagon basement, laid out, in the interior, on a circle, containing fifty-two stalls for cows or cattle, with heads towards the interior. For a fancy breeding establishment, these stalls might be made some 3 feet high, showing all the animals at one view, and with the feeding-car on track (c), and the car for running out manure on track (<•/), the labour would be made convenient. This leaves a 52-foot in- terior circle which may be put to any purpose required. The track (c) takes out 6 feet, still leav- ing a circle of feet diameter. The horse- stalls [d) are laid out on a circle, but would be better placed at right angles with the drive-way. One strong point to be made in favour of the circular plan is, that by means of the cars running across the drive-way, food dropped through the floor above ujjon the car can be run to every animal in the basement. The horse- stalls would also be very convenient of access from the drive- way. One side of the drive-way might be fitted up with box-stalls for brood mares or colts, or calf-pens. We give tliis j)lan merely as suggestive, and not as the best arrangement. Every one may divide the space as he sees fit. Of course, it will be moi-e ex- pensive to fit up on a circle, but to one who fancied it, a few dollars would be, perhaps, no objection. 'The plan of basement given in Fig. 27 would generally be preferred, and if wanted for a large dairy-barn there is room for two parallel floors with two rows of cows to each floor, giving one long and one jhort row of cows to each floor, Fig. 29.—Octagon Baseifent (Scale 16 feet to the inch). This represents an 80-foot octagon basement laid out on a circle; h, h repre- sents fifty-two cow or cattle s
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