The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-02
BUILDING A BARN..
Necessities F~irst-Then Add the Decora-
tive IL You Can AfYord 1t.

age. There is not a farmer who has
not lost by insanitary conditions a
thousandfold more than would have
been the original cost of sanitary i'm
provements. The primary objects in
building barns are to shelter farm ami
mails and afford safe storage for the va
rious feeding stuffs. The secondary OBJ
jects are to provide comfort and con-
venience for the farmer and to add bean
ty and elegance to the homestead.
The man with small capital must
build makeshifts and be content with
smaller profits until such time as his
small accumulations will enable him to
profit by the advantages afforded in
moro economical arrangements. If we
build solely from the utilitarian stand
point and to make a building as cheap
as possible, then a square building, with
the roof sloping to q central deck and
with all roof ornaments, c%ornice, win.
dow and door decorations omitted. Just
make a box large enough and strong
enough to hold your farm produce and
live stock. Make it tight enough to
keep ont the blasts of storm, make it
light enough to let in--in great abun-
danco-the vivifying sunlight, and you
have the poor mans barn in closest
economy.
l note the following items that are of
interest and Importance in barn build
ing:
The cost per head of full grown animals in
bt,illipu FOR ctaI1i,,O onra.ify md pollar efor
age, $25.
In building for stabliug capacity alone, IS.
The standing room for Il LOCO pound animal
tied up, $50 cubic feet.
Storage for grain for 200 days per 1000 pound
animal, 80 cubic feet.
Storage for hay for same, 800 cubic feet.
Storage for bedding for same, COO cubic feet.
The daily grain feed full feed) for same,
about ~ pounds.
The daily hay feed. about 10 pounds.
Tho daily bedding, 10 pounds.
The daily water, including water of food, 70
pounds.
The daily silage, l cubic foot.
The daily soiling feed, l25 pounds.
The daily cabbage, 80 pounds.
The daily roots, 40 pounds.
The daily amount of manure accumulation,
10 pounds.
Tho daily amount of hay necessary for sus
tanning ration, 20 pounds.
The daily amount Of nutritivc substance re.
CURED, 3 pounds tbeing equivalent to about
20 pounds of ordinary feed.
1t requires six minutes to milk a COW.
Forty-eight per cent Of the dry matter of the
feed is converted into manure.
One cord of manure weighs from three to
five tons.
One cord of fresh manure weighs six times
as much as when the same is well rotted.
One animal will produce about ten tons Of
manure In one year.
The tonnage of "a building is computed ly
reckoning the weights of full capacity Of grain.
hay, bedding and live stock on all floors above
the basement and by multiplying the number
Of feet Of lumber by 81 pounds. The sum OF
all these quantities divided by 1900 pounG5
will give the tonnage. Then by taking from
the tables the resistance Of wood columns and
beams, when weight is evenly distributed, We
are able to determine the size and number OF
posts and beams necessary for the building.
From the above data it is easy to de-
termine the size Of u building needed
for a given number of animals. For eX.
ample, if it is desired to house the ami
NAL and at the same time store sufi-
ciont feed for the winter period, multi
ply he number of animals by 1880
cubic feet; then by inspection determine
the dimensions Of the building. Or If il
10 w l'loN Wv ctttDliHS CuDttlNN
only, then multiply the number of full
grown animals by $50 cubic feet. Pro
viding for sheep and hogs requires rela-
lively the same space for a given weight
Of animals, but the arrangement is es-
sentially different. Brood sows should
be separated and placed on small plats
two rods square, each plat containing a
email hnnsn IN foot c1r,nrn tla ,aof af
the house sloping one way. The house
should be three feet high on one side
and five feet high on the opposite side.
1t should be t1oored and arranged so that
it can be dragged about from place to
place with a team. There should be
two IL foot panels and four 10 foot
panels of portable fence for each house,
provided you have "a series in a row.
Such an arrangement permits of settling
down a little city Of swine, where they
can dwell with perfect immunity against
cholera until such time as the pigs are
old enough to go to the pasture, when
tho swine town can be taken up and the
site plowed up and sown to some kind
Of crop which will destroy all kinds Of
disease germs and leave the ground in
proper hygienic condition for the next
crop OF pigs. Seven hundred feet of lum-
Der will make the outfit, which, includ-
ing labor and hardware bill, will make
a total cost of about SO for each SOW
and her farrow, or $500 for a herd of 20
sows. 1t would require about one-half
acre for the town site. l hardly need to
comment on the superior sanitary coll
ditions that may be maintained with
such "a system or the comparatively
small mortality in young pigs.
The sheepfold must be arranged SO as
to keep tho animal dry and keep out
cold drafts of air. Professor ID. A.
Kent.
Live Stock Points.
In horse breeding the quality of the