The Springdale news., 1889-10-11
GOOD SHOCK BARN
One That Will Pay for Itself in the Course
 Of n Few Years


 Of n Few Years.
 But what is a warm stable? Not a building boarded with inch boards. with cracks open for the wind to blow through, and perhaps destitute of un- der-plnning. so the wind can blow un- der 1t and come up through the floor l think cattle tied up in stalls in such stables sometimes suffer more than if outdoors, for they can not exercise or change position. and must stand dumb ly and suffer. What 1 call d warm sta bIe Is one thoroughly underpinned so that no cold can come up from below, and double boarded up the sides. with building paper between. and all the doors and windows carefully fitted. It Is possible at a moderate expense to make stables so warm that a barrel of potatoes could stand in them without freezing, with mercury at or below zero, and it will pay to do this. A sta ble 25N50 feet will furnish stall room for twelve cattle. with s feet taken off at one end for feed rooms,
 
 for throwing the manure from the stalls, and this will stable from eight to twelve calves; or it can be divided when necessary into box stalls. by temporary partitions. Such d barn can be built of good material and in q thorough man. ncr for $400 or less, and the extra cost to double board the stable end put building paper between would not ex- cced S40. Now i believe it to be a moderate estimate that cattle fed in such a stable will gain l0o pounds each moro than if fed the same amount of feed exposed to winter storms, &ad counting that our twelve grown cutie would be worth $4 per head more in the spring, and toa young cattle s each more, and NC have $6S saved in year by She warm stable, and in six years it would more than return the entire cost of the barn. There ought to be little credit in addition for the increased amount and better quality of manure which would be made in such stable
 Suppose my estimate is too high by a half and that it would take twelve years 10 get the money back; still the barn would be 8 good investment. But when We consider the convenience of feeding in Well-argaagea stable. that the cattle can not ge5 the food under foot and waste it, and that al the ma nure is saved in tho best possible con dition, bctievethe estimateis q low one, that the cost of the barn would be saved ill less than SIX year.
 To build sGeh stock barn at the price mention will require q light frame. as both lumber and labor will be saved by its Use. With proper con struction and braeing no stick of timber larger than six inches square k needed in 2 stocs barn of this size or even larger for t k not the size of the tim b.. bat the way It is pnt together that gives the strength to q build- ing. There is stocl barn in my county which has stalls for 40 head of cattle and horses, which is built of tim- Der of this size. For the small stock barn the nail ties may be ixi inches. except the ones which support the loft floor; these should be 4x6. The plates should be 4x6 and aafters 2xG. The manager should be in the center, wide enough for two rows of cattle 10 eat from it. At one end of the manager there should be feed room < feet square into which to drop hay or fodder from the loft above At one side of this feed room you can locate meal room of the same size, and at the other the stairs will go mp 10 the hay loft. and there can be smaller meal bin. The manger should be hoored with dressed lumber so that hay can easily be pushed along through it. or it car be easily swept. The floor ouwhich the cattle stand should be foot lower than the floor of the manager. and 1 would make 1t of concrete, with manure ditch two feet wide and six or eight inches deep, and a walk two feet wido on level with the floor on which the cows Stand ~ Ohio Ear,4nr