. 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 . hilo.—E. B. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. Open Air Poultry Houses for All Climates, Prince , —American Poultry Journal Publishing Co. 190 MODEEN PAEM BUILDINGS Sheepfold Although a number of the plans of farm barns already il-lustrated have included quarters for the sheep, yet it is betterto keep sheep at a distance
. 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 . hilo.—E. B. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. Open Air Poultry Houses for All Climates, Prince , —American Poultry Journal Publishing Co. 190 MODEEN PAEM BUILDINGS Sheepfold Although a number of the plans of farm barns already il-lustrated have included quarters for the sheep, yet it is betterto keep sheep at a distance from the farmyard, if the bestresults of breeding and rearing them are to be obtained. The VEIGHT WtlGHT- GATE. TO SLIDE UP jJKthick Vf £1 Z. WOOD PINS ** 1% ROUND tDGtS PIG. 67—DETAIL OP SLIDING GATE IN SHEEP PEN DOOE one vital thing in the sheep barn is ventilation, and any barnwhich does not provide this will fail. While many barns of practical sheep breeders are arrangedto store the hay overhead, yet a better method is to keep thefeed separated from the animals, just as was advocated forthe cow barn, and the same reasons for this prevail here asthere. A general and a separate storage place for feed is de-sirable and this should include a cellar for ENTRANCE TO SHEPHERDS QUARTERS
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