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At ExpUlnfld by *n Illlnolt Oorrcipotdeil of The Gonmtry Gentleman.Economy ought to have a place in all building calculations and convenient arrangement of the interior part of the bnru is the place to find economy in a barn* Following is the communication of a Country Gentleman correspondent on the advantages of a sound born. He takes for illustration a barn*suited to a large farm, where many cows are kept. This barn of 100 feet in diameter has, according to the correspondent alluded to, these points to recommend it:First, economy of otitside covering. Since the baru in square shape is more economical from this point of view than the rectangular style, we will compare the amount of weather surface per perpendicular foot. On the round barn, 100 feet in diameter, there is 814.16 surface, and the square baru of equal floor space has 509.2, or a difference of 195 feet for each foot of height, not to mention those gables, and it will cost less to roof the round barn. The surface in the barn proposed would be, if in a solid square, 170 by 185 by 610 feet per foot height, or enough to make two round barns of fhe same height.We want our stables all together and feed overhead, and in the center of the place of distribution; lienee we want the barn high and take coarse feed stuffs up by hay track, etc., and need a silo (if you can feed ensilage) in the center of the barn. The 100 foot diameter round barn gives the spaces as follows t Drive around outside, 7 feet; first row of cows, 7 feet; alley to feed from, 5 feet; second row of cows, 7 feet; drive around the silo in center, 7 feet; silo in center, 34 feet in diameter. This size silo is too large to feed from all over and should bo divided; it would hold probably 500 tons, 80 feet high, which would only be 21 foet from baru floor,The stable should be all on tho same level and no hogs kept in the same building that the dairy barn is in. In regard to ventilation, each space between the studding of silo has an opening at the bottom which takes foul air out from the bottom, from where it should go. There are numerous other advantages which the round barn presents which make it far superior to the square or rectangular one, but to enter into detail would require too much for the space. If readers, however, will take a pencil and figure the advantages of the round barn over the square one they will doubtless discover these for themselves.
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Cedar Rapids Standard
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1895
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