The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-13
Floor Plan of Barn.

a water-tank is given pretty near the
diameter of the silo, it's height could
be small and the whole sheltered with
no extra roof. A ngue-and-grooved
stave silo, thus sheltered from the
wind and weather, would render thor
oughly good service and would be a
permanent structure. The silo could,
of course, be placed outside, In the
angle on either side, but in such a
case the stave silo is only tenn
porary building. With this arrange
ment the ensilage can be taken out
into the feed-room against the ven
tilating shaft. The ensilage cutter
could stand at l or and 1t could be
filled from the driveway floor, using
the blower elevator, which could also
be used for cutting straw and rough
age for bedding, this elevated into
the space above the driveway floor
and feed-room, to be stored there or
passed through over the constable.
On the opposite side of the dairy
stable from the silo, and some 30
feet distant, so as not to interfere
with the lighting of the stable and
wind circulation, we would place ma
nure shed, % by 80, which should have
a concrete foundation and walls to a
height of some three feet, in which
the manure from the stable may be
stored, carrying it there by means of
an overhead trolley and where it may
ripen sheltered from the rain and to
which rock phosphate may be judi
ciously added, to be rendered soluble
by the fermenting processes before the
manure goes to the field. With such
an arrangement as this and with espe-
cial effort to make use of all waste
roughage, either as bedding or directly
in composing with the manure, the
quantity of stable manure can thus be
very materially increased and the
same number of animals made to
serve a much larger area of field.
Next to the driveway would be To-
Gated the power-house, with the engine
so placed that single shaft could ex-
tend along the ceiling above the drive
way into the feedroom, where pull
leys could be placed for driving a feed
grinder and the feed cutter, says
Country Gentleman. We do not at
tempt to lay out specifically rooms
for housing the engine, pump for wa
ter supply and compressor for re-
frigeration, if such a plant were to
be installed, but the sketch suggests,
in general way, the arrangement
that would have to be adopted to al
low power to be taken off directly
from a single, straight shaft, where
the aim is to make a stationary en-
CINE contribute all of the power need
ed for the various lines of work.
1t should be understood that an en-
CINE that would have sufficient power
to run feed-cutter would hardly be
economical to run the separator for so
small plant as 40 cows. 1t is possible,
however, that II small refrigerating
plant were to be installed for use most
of the year, type of plant might be
adopted that would permit its being
run for couple of hours night and
morning, at the time milking is done
and the work in the dairy attended to,
so that the separator could be run,
taking off its power when other need
| ed work Is being accomplished. Grind
ing and pumping could, of course, go
on at the same time, because a bin
could easily be arranged so that the
i mill would be fed automatically, thus
requiring no attention except to see
that 1t was feeding right