The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-25

The barns have been designed ana
built to obtain the best possible re-
suits with the least expenditure
labor In the handling of the stock.
The cow stables (the end of one is
shown at the right of the picture)
have walls, floors, and curved roos
of concrete. The walls are hollow,
and In them is installed the king
system of ventilation" Each wing
is arranged for forty cows. The feed
troughs are cast in concrete, with a
water inlet at one end and outlet at
the other, so that they may be easily
flushed out. The stalls are made OF
~ inch galvanized pipe and fittings
bent to shape and anchored in the
concrete. The cows are fastened
from each side by chains to leather
collar. The windows swing on their
lower edges and open into iron
cheeks. Tracks hung from the roof
on either side behind the stalls are
used for the manure carriers which
run through the end doors and dump
into carts. Modern sanitation re-
quires that the cows be kept apart
/ from the feed and the manure apart
from the cows. The concrete roofs
are covered with a tar felt, washed
over with tar and covered with Stag,
to make them water tight. IN
the floors layer Of felt AMI tar was
placed for damp course. The feed
room and grain storage room are at
the junction of the two wings and the
hay barn connects with these. The
hay barn, feed rooms, and silos have
concrete walls and single roofs. The
silos proved perfectly satisfactory.
Another example of reinforced con-
crete construction is the stable built
for DR.. N. B. Van Etten, New York
City. The walls, floors, and roof are
no thicker than required when OF
wood, but are fireproof, and moisture
does not collect on the inside Of the
walls, although no air space was left.
Any part of the stable can be cleaned
by turning on water with a hose.
Concrete is made of cement. sand
and broken stone, gravel. or washed
cinders. (Ref 16, PIP. 1-6.) Wooden
forms are constructed, and the GENES
filled into the spaces required. AS the
work progresses the lower becomes
set and the lumber OF the forms can
be removed and used over again.
j (Ref. IA, D. 219.) The work must be
carried on carefully and intelligently,
but 1t is not difficult form Of con-
struction. The success Of the build
ing depends upon the faithfulness and
care of the woraxmen. After the
forms have been removed the surface
can be given a mortar facing, 1t can
be fooled to remove the outer skin
of mortar in which the form marks
exist, or 1t can be washed with an acid
preparation to remove the cement and
expose the particles OF sand and stone.
then with an alkaline solution to re-
move all free acid, finally giving 1t a
thorough cleansing with water. (Ref.
IT, pp. Sc, 99.) A pebble-dash sur
face can be secured by using large
rounded pebbles in the concrete and
when the forms are removed brush
ing the cement and sand from around
the face of the gravel with steel
brushes. leaving about half of the
pebbles exposed. After about twenty
four hours the brushing can be carried
on most successfully. (Ref. Is, p.
643.)
In planning the barn, provision
should be made for growth of both
crops and animals. This can be ac-
complished either by building for the
future or by so arranging the plan
that an additional bay can be added
with little change in the present build
ing. Greater comfort and better re
suits will be obtained from barns not
over 35 feet wide than If built wider.
If these are arranged to partly sur
round court to the south they will
prove very satisfactorily.
The barn should be built to store
abundance of provender; hence the
NOW should be without crossties
through the middle to obstruct the
hay fork, the trusses being placed
abuot 16 feet on centers. 1t Is often
found convenient to have a barn for
hay with the stock grouped around it,
The practice of scattering buildings
over the farm has been found more
inconvenient and expensive than to
group them near each other, as al;
the buildings are more or less depend
ent. Scattered buildings add much to
the labor of doing the work.
The foundations should extend we'll
below frost line, the basement posts
resting directly upon the foundation
piers without wood stills at the grade
line. The floors OF all barns and
sheds should be dry and wei, drained.
The best and most economical floor
for a dairy barn is of concrete. The
ground floor should be raised enough
to give good fall in all directions
from the barn. In the construction