New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-29
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which could have been easily Dor
rOWed.
Location.
The barn is approximately 1000
feet or one-ffth of a milo from the
home buildings where tho help IS
housed and the milk must be bfousHl
to set as it is proposed to use IL lor
butter Men must so pack
and forth to look after the stock' ieeo
and milk, making several miles q day.
If fire should occur; horse or COW
is taken sick in the night, they might
ho dead in the morning before some
ono oot to tho barn. Tho slaughter
house whore it is claimed an average
of 800 animals are slaughtered is only
Soma 500 feet southeast of the barn
or less from the proposed barn yard
where the noises and odor will be cas-
iIv sensed by animals out there. This
is considered by some state authori-
ties to be very detrimental and mad
visa BILE.
Defects.
Cypress ship lap siding curls and
splits, tight knotted white pine would
not have cost any moro and would
have given better service.
Changes could be made by substi-
tuting light mill construction OF
yellow pine for the barn floor, second
story, the same results could have
been obtained, namely, strength, du-
rability, tightness and warmth and
the cost of the best Washington cedar
ceilings for partitions, ceilings and
walls with three costs of paint would
tn Sf00
or more. BY the use OF tight-knot-
ted matched n. c. Is and 2" for floors
and good thick sheathinS paper, the
floors and walls could be made just as
tight and warm. A cold water or
partial ire-proof paint could have
been used, and this construction would
prevent the spaces for rats and mice,
and would be far less open to fire
danger. The beams would show and
there would be more opportunities for
dust to collect and cobwebs gather
but a boy with a broom could go over
the room in an hour once week
and a renewal of a cost of cold water
paint once a year would keep the
room in a much cleaner condition
than an oil painted surface not at
tended to at all. On the north end
wall built to carry a concrete and iron
bridge to the barn, second floor, ten
Or twelve feet away. A curved road
way or approach comes up each side
to the bridge so teams can drive with
a load into the barn. Underneath the
bridge and across the width of the
barn a fine concrete floor has been
built, all out Of doors and exposed
except under the bridge. Of what
service this is I fail to see. When the
retaining walls are completed and
the banks properly graded and turfed
this will look very nice and be on the
landscape gardening order, but SO far
as practicability is concerned for
whatever is necessary, the end of the
barn could have rested on an air
chambered and Waterproofed wall
continued out to form retaining wall
and on each side the road could have
como up to the barn door, thereby
saving one retaining wall, the bridge,
and concrete floor and approximately
$1,000 as per bill of costs shown by
the board.
The ground could have been sloped
from the driveway to the barn each
way SO as to have allowed an end
window the same as now. and a door
could have been put in on the west
side, the milk room being moved
south far enough to allow it. This
bridge business seems to me to be
entirely unnecessary.
Another defect which appears in
excusable and careless is disregard
ing a rule or regulation of the State
Milk Regulation Board. Bulletin No
7, Chapter 3. Section IS, livestock
other than meat cattle to be excluded
from the room in which milk cows
are kept" In this barn there is no
separation of neat stock from the
horses stalls. for they adjoin each
other and some cows are in stalls i'm
mediately in the rear of part of the
horse stalls.
The ycntilating system is of doubt
full utility, does not work at times
and is only of service when there is
q decided difference of temperature
between the outside and inside. The
fuos or conduits should have been
built with n smooth metal or other
hard surface lining without sharp
turns. Probably will have to be re-
arranged to work.
Concrete stall floors should not
have any connection with the outer
Wills ana nave nneS OF 1rG clay tie
for ventilation underneath the stalls
and next to the side walls.
Length of stalls too short If barn
had been four feet wider, stalls mora
suitable for COWS could have been
| put in and the extra expense would
| have been comparatively small
Box stalls were built with drain.
age outlets for a cork brick floor;
! with plank floors thew will he = mi -
sance if used as liquids will stand
| over two inches deep before they can
! flow off.
A large number Of windows are ex-
posed to breakage and should be
protected by wire screens. The shut
! off for all water pipes is out doors
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