. Barn plans and outbuildings . 28 and 129, which give a perspective view and groundplan. The ground floor is divided into six pens, eachsixteen feet square, with a four-foot alley extendingthrough the middle. Each pen will accommodate sixteento eighteen ewes. The alley H is necessary in feedingthe animals and as a playground for the lambs, forwithout such exercise they would not develop fold should be nine feet high and either boarded onthe outside with matched lumber, or battened on the loo BAHN PLAINS AND OUTBLILDIXGS inside and lined with sheathing paper. Tlie posts aretwenty
. Barn plans and outbuildings . 28 and 129, which give a perspective view and groundplan. The ground floor is divided into six pens, eachsixteen feet square, with a four-foot alley extendingthrough the middle. Each pen will accommodate sixteento eighteen ewes. The alley H is necessary in feedingthe animals and as a playground for the lambs, forwithout such exercise they would not develop fold should be nine feet high and either boarded onthe outside with matched lumber, or battened on the loo BAHN PLAINS AND OUTBLILDIXGS inside and lined with sheathing paper. Tlie posts aretwenty feet. At the end of the second floor opposite thehay door a grain room is partitioned off, with stairs, E,leading to it from below. It contains three bins, forvarious kinds of grain used. As this is mixed by weight,scales are placed here. After it is mixed, the grain isthrown in a chute to be spouted below as needed. In the center of the second floor is an opening five feetsquare over the square marked D, over which is placed a. Fig. 128 PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF SHEEP BARN closed, pyramidal fodder chute and foul-air escape fivefeet square at the base and four at the apex, whichreaches the cupola. The chute has doors in the sidethrough which to throw down fodder. The windows ofthe fold are made to slide, and by the use of them andthe chute the atmosphere is kept at the right temperature,which is about fifty degrees. A slide, made to be workedfrom overhead in the fold, opens or closes the draft in thechute. The hay loft is reached through doors in thepartition of the grain room. A stairway and ])latform BARN FOR WINTER LAMBS 139 at the end of the building (not shown in the engraving),on the outside and adjoining the grain room, facilitatereplenishing the bins with grain. Double racks, A, are the division fences between thepens. The bed pieces of these are scantling two by fourinches set edgewise. They arebeveled on the lower edges andthe rack slats are nailed to thebeveled faces. The
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