The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

Showing How This 6O-EOot Barn
May BE arranged TO Accommodate 40
Cows In Stalls. To Supply This Sized
Herd and tho Necessary Young Stock
with Silage for Eight Months Would
Require a 37O-TOn SiIO, or One IS
Feet I'm Diameter II Sc Feet Deep:
with a Sevcn-EOOt Feed Alley and a
1-2 Foot Manager, the Circle at the
~StanchiOns Would be So Feet in
Diameter, or 119 f-3 Feet in Circum-
ference; Allowing 4 l-2 Feet for Two
Passage Ways, the Stalls Would Re
Feet 10 1-2 Inches Wide. at the Stan.
cllion, n B Feet 6 Ipches at the
Drop.
requires 22 per cen more wall and
10 enclose the same space.
and that the cost Of material is from
"a 10 So per cent more for the rec
tangular building?
In q community in which everyone
10 ehsaSeu In n same occupation,
one person is likely To cow from his
neighbor without apparently giving q
u as TO whether or not there is
a better way.
In II district of Illinois, a certain
type OF dairy barn is Used bv nearly
everyone, while in the next county a
distinctly different type prevails. and
,he ualry barns of another adjacent
county differ from those of either of
the former, simply because the aa rIu
settlers OF this particular locality came
from an Eastern State and started
building the style Of barn then COM
mon in Pennsylvania.
IN q certain community in Ohio
where a milk ~condensing factory IS
,oodteu' q large number of farmers
nave barns 36X6O feet, with an Il"
.he same size, n loft of the IT,
Is used FOR the storage of straw. and
the cows run loose in the lower nor
uon. These barns are all built on
practicalIy the same plan and are
usually or the same size, and this IS
the only community known to the
writer where this form of barn is
used in this manner
rms to initiate emphasizes
the TACT that men do not exercise suf-
hcient originality. Because most barns
are rectangular is no reason that this
Is the best and most economical form
IN comparing a 60-foot round barn
with a rectangular barn of the same
area, the two barns should afford the
cows II same O of space on
the platform. Allowing each COW in
the 6O-foOt round barn 3 feet 6 inches
In width at the rear of the platform
IT Will accommodate 40 cows and leave
space Tor two passage ways. But in
a rectangular barn, only 8 feet 4 in
cneS OF platform space need be al
lowed Tor each COW and the 70 1-2 foot
barr with two 3-foot passage WAYS
across 1t for convenience in feediny
WIFI accommodate AZ cows. While the
rectangular barn has stall room for
two more cows. the round barn con-
talns space in the enter for a silo 1S
feet in diameter.
The floor space and cubical content
or the round barn SO feet in diameter.
and the rectangular barn
with 1t as will be seen, are practically
the same, and the barns are therefore
directly comparable. This being true,
the percentage which were figured
from the complete bills of material
Tor THESE barns show the exact sav.
ing IN iunbor on ~the~Sa-foot ~o.,d
parn over the plank and mortise fran
barns 36x7S 1-2 feet. The
Iumoer bills of the rectangular barns
snow an increase in cost of "a ne,
cent from the plank frame and 54 ne,
cent Tor the mortise frame. The
Iouhu Darn. 90 feet in diameter. con.
Sains Joy LIZ. and the rectangular
Darn 225 lineal feet OF wall. The req.
tangular barn has. therefore. % ne,
cent more Iineal feet of outside harr
wall, requiring a proportional increase
in both paint and foundation
n 176 3-4-foot rectangular barr
would hole 100 ows. allowing each
COW 8 feet 4 inch>s in width and pro.
V1d1ng for 3 passage ways of 3 fee
each across the barn.
the 9O-fOOt round barn would hole
!0O cows In two rows headed together
90 OF which would be in the quite
CIRCLE n have 3 feet 8 inches eacl