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A VermonterWat* rford. Vf., a town containing: mini' prosperous and enterprising j farmers, is proud of Winfield S. Hastings. and Mr. Hastings is justly proud of his round ham, savs the BostoniGlobe. Though built solely for use it Ihas. nevertheless, attracted tnuch at (tention, an*l over 2,500 persons have driven tip the hilly road from the valley of the Passumpsic to the high ridge of land where his 400-acre farm lies. Mr. Hastings runs a dairy farm and the barn was built in this way. as he believed it would be more serviceable than any other kind.It is eighty feet in diameter and the basement contains no posts, hut is trussed with 10 by 10 timbers 31 feet long, radiating from the center like s|xkes In a wheel. Around the wall arlt;* the nests for a flock of 100 hens, which contribute twenty-five dozen of eggs to the weekly product of the farm. Eight octagonal sties, all connected. encircle the silo and furnisl^a home for forty pigs.Round BarnThe silo occupies the center of the building and performs the double duty of storing 400 tons of ensilage and supporting flu* i alters that radiate from it on each floor. The sik) itself is eighteen feet in diameter and fifty feet high.The cows occupy the first floor of the barn and enter from the ground on an inclined plane. Arranged in a circle around the room are the stalls for eighty-four cows and thirteen stanchions for the calves. Mr. Hastings has at present a herd of fifty grade Jerseys, which give a weekly butter product of 200 pounds.The big hayloft on the upper floor is entered from the ground through big doors. This room has a capacity of 175 tons of hay.The building is well lighted on every floor, while ventilators extend through every part of the building to the eaves. The builders used 140,000 feet of rlmber in its construction, and 110,-000 shingles on the octagonal roof and the sides.
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Kalispell Inter Lake
Kalispell, Montana, US
Fri, Aug 18, 1905
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