. 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 . ed by making awide passageway through the width of the stable so that awagonload of green fodder could be driven into the buildingand unloaded in the central passageway between the advantage, however, of the arrangement is questionable,since the position of the manure track, as it hangs from theceiling, neces
. 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 . ed by making awide passageway through the width of the stable so that awagonload of green fodder could be driven into the buildingand unloaded in the central passageway between the advantage, however, of the arrangement is questionable,since the position of the manure track, as it hangs from theceiling, necessitates a low load, and in any case the drivingin of horses causes commotion, which is objectionable and onevery ground to be avoided. This feature, although incor-porated in the design of several buildings erected under theauthors supervision, has never been used, the farmer seemingto prefer to unload his fresh fodder upon a concrete platform THE COW BARN 35 at the end of the stable, where it is easily pushed down thecentral passageway rather than carried upon a wagon rightinto the building. COW STALLS.—In the past six or eight years variousmethods of fastening cattle have been devised, from the san-itary as well as the humane standpoint, but practice and expe- rS V^ R. ^e^i^r rN t—qr ATAL_l_e or lVa*l-VANlZ*D (ftoM pipe - tees on e>ends to to allow uprightsto pass through riTTINGS MALLIAOLLIRON WITHOUT 6tADS. ELEVATION LOOKING FRONT fK
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