Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1916-01-04
ROUND BARN ATTRACTS
PERRYDALE JERSEY BREEDER
WORKS OUT THE PLAN.
Circular Structure Has Numerous Ad-
vantages Over Square Barn Of
Same Cost.

The round barn erected by F. E.
Lynn, the Perrydale Jersey breeder
is completed and the cows now occu'
by it. Opinions differ widely as 10 the
advantages and disadvantages of q
round barn and since Mr.. Lynn be-
gan planning a barn of circular dl-
mensions over three years ago, many
friends undertook to dissuade him.
But he went on planning little chang
es and improvements here and there
until, when its erection was begun last
summer he had in mind just what he
wanted. And it must be admitted the
barn is pleasing to the eye, both out
side and inside and gives number
of conveniences not found in square
cornered barn of anywhere near the
cost.
The barn is eighty feet in diameter,
twenty-four feet high to the caves
and sixty-four feet to the top of the
cupalo. The floor and walls four and
half feet up are of concrete and
there is a concrete silo in the center.
Surrounding the silo are bins about
ten feet wide for grain, hay, kale,
roots, etc. These bins are estimated
to hold 5000 bushels of grain. The
bins reach ito the upper floor, keeping
out any odor Of kale or other feed and
keeping the cows breath away from
it. Surrounding the bins is feed al
ley eight feet wide. Thirty box-stalls,
each reaching from the feed alley to
the outer walls, fill the entire floor
space, except where the door opens.
These stalls are each four and half
feet wide at the narrow end, eight
feet at the wide end and sixteen feet
long. AT the narrow end, next the
feed alley, is the manger, of wood,
swung on hinges at each end in such
a manner that it either faces the cow
just right for feeding or turns back
so she cannot see the feed, or turns
entirely over, making it easy ITO clean.
This manger and its plan of swinging
back and forward is entirely Mr..
Lynn S own invention and he is the
architect of the entire barn. A six,
foot gate is so arranged on each side
of each stall that it can be slid back
only one gate to each stali'
and making when the gates are open,
a six-foot alleyway through the mid
die of all the stalls clear around the
barn. A drainage gutter four inches
wide, with a top only seven-eighths
of an inch wide runs through the cen
ter of each stall clear round the barn,
and empties into "a drainage tank be-
low the barn on the hillside. The
stalls and gates are of woven wire.
When being MIXED the cows are
fastened with chain around the
neck to the manger and it is the in
tention to feed while milking. just
back of where the gate opens, at the
wide end of each stall, a low board
is placed and that part of the stall is
bedded eight or ten inches deep in
clean straw The COW will naturally
lie on the bedding and, if kept in
Turing the day has large box stall
IN which to exercise, and this ar
makes taking out the ma
1ure easy. Two windows gives six
Feet of glass to each COW and every
stall but one has these windows. They
;lide up and down or drop in from
he top. Automatic water buckets
will be installed in each stall and
hey will be supplied from a concrete
ank on top of the silo. The barn is
,uilt on sloping ground and a drive
way goes directly to the upper floor.
This floor has a capacity of $50 tons
# hay. Hay is unloaded with mast
md pim-pole and it can be done very
'apidly.-Rural Spirit.