. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 85 AN ILLINOIS DAIRY BARN The barn above basement has room for over 100 tonshay, feed room, grain bins, grinding and stalk cuttingmachinery, but no silos. The small building shown inFigure 85 is a milk house and is not attached to building is fourteen by twenty-four feet, has acement cooling vat that will hold forty eight-gallon cans,cement floor, and is supplied with water from a cistern ANOTHER ILLINOIS BARN 95 and well located on higher ground and piped to barn cost about $2500 to build. A TEN-SIDED DAIRY BARN A dairy barn decagonal in
. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 85 AN ILLINOIS DAIRY BARN The barn above basement has room for over 100 tonshay, feed room, grain bins, grinding and stalk cuttingmachinery, but no silos. The small building shown inFigure 85 is a milk house and is not attached to building is fourteen by twenty-four feet, has acement cooling vat that will hold forty eight-gallon cans,cement floor, and is supplied with water from a cistern ANOTHER ILLINOIS BARN 95 and well located on higher ground and piped to barn cost about $2500 to build. A TEN-SIDED DAIRY BARN A dairy barn decagonal in form, each of the sides beingsixteen feet, was built by P. H. Monroe of Plainfield,111., and is shown in Figures 87, 88 and 89, The base-ment is eight feet in the clear, and the studding for the. Fig. 86—INSIDE AN ILLINOIS DAIRY BARN two upper stories twenty-four feet. The studding is ofpine two by six inches, joists two by eight, beams andposts two by eight and two by six. It is covered withdrop siding. The silo is built of two by fours, spikedtogether edgewise. There is a concrete walk six feetwide behind the cows, sloping two inches from wall torear end of platform, which is of board flooring. The 96 BARN PLANS AND orXBUILDINOS basement is ventilated by a chute sliown near d in Fig-ure 88, which extends to dormer window in loft. Freshair is admitted by four openings in the side wall of base-ment stable. The basement will accommodate twenty-five cows and bull, and the temperature in the coldestweather never falls below fifty degrees. In the basement
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