Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . h straw for the purpose of havinggood ventilation without creating a the summer time the straw is removedand the place thoroughly cleaned. For further ventilation there is a ventstack in each end of the building which comes down to within a few inches of thefloor. These ventilators pass out throughthe roof and extend above the highestpoint and are capped to keep out the is also a slide near the bottom toregulate the amount of
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . h straw for the purpose of havinggood ventilation without creating a the summer time the straw is removedand the place thoroughly cleaned. For further ventilation there is a ventstack in each end of the building which comes down to within a few inches of thefloor. These ventilators pass out throughthe roof and extend above the highestpoint and are capped to keep out the is also a slide near the bottom toregulate the amount of air. If heavy fowlsare kept in this house good ladders shouldbe provided to help them up and down orthey may get bumble foot. Barn for a Small Farm—A160 This is a small barn for a sma41 farm and other forage. This same opening ans- wherc four or five horses are kept besides wers for passing feed down to tlie mangers a few milch cows and a little other stock, from the feed lofts. This barn was designed for lo cows, five There are windows all around this barn horses and about fifty fowls and there is for light and ventilation; a provision that. room for a couple of breeding sows. Inevery stable a box stall or two comes inhandy. A box stall is almost an absolutenecessity sometime during the year citherfor sick animals because some special at-tention is required. The entire upper part is floored andthere is an opening over the storage andimplement room to pitch up hay. straw is too often left out when farm barn plansare made. It is not necessary to shut abarn all up dark, and it is not advisable todo so. Windows do not cost nuich morethan siding and the sun and light let inis a great advantage to stock The floor of this stable should be of con-crete with the upper layer an inch thickcomposed of one part Portland cement BARN PLANS 65 and two parts clear soft sand but in mak-ing a floor like this it should be remem-bered that hard smooth cement is slipperyand dangerous. The passag
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