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EaBARN PLAN.Round Type of Building Ha# Advantage# Over Other Form#.mThe day is pant when we can afford to be without ample ham room for all Jive stock. The present prices of feed prohibit the old wire fenco shelter, and the prices of lumber will never be less, and now they prohibit the old style of haphazard building, having a building for ouch kind of stock and then moat of the feed outside and the water from two to 20 rods from the barns. This is an era of concentration, and nothing can facilitate the Intensive style of farming and concentrate a man's energies to his nr# work on a farm like a commodious, comfortable barn. Personally, says a writer in Wallaces Farmer, f would not build a barn without a silo, nor would I advise any one else to do so, as the barn and its proper use is the mainstay of our calling, as sooner or later we must all come to the keeping of live stock to consume tho greater share of our crops and then carefully wave nnd apply the manuremade. Nothing produces as much feed per acre as corn, and nothing Haves corn so economically as the silo. Neither would I build a barn of svilta-|er! ble size for a farm of BO acres or more isl- any ot^er shape than round, and have b ' the silo in the center; but to avoid I on account of the silo, I willPlan of Barn.HOG FEEDING NOTES.Meat meal and tankage of siniila chemical composilion are almost eqini: pound for pound, to a corn r.vion lo fattening hogs.The hogs red mcsii men] and tanUugi as ten per rent, of their ration will corn required 40 pounds of ibis ntno genouit concentrate for each : 04 pounds gained.A ration composed of corn wit I cither meat meal or tankage prodncet from 25 lo 411 per cent, faster galm or. quite mature hogs, in every ons* the number of pounds offered re mired per 100 pounds gain was decidedly less with a mixed ration.A ration of one-half eurn and one half shorts produced giealer gains with less feed per lea pounds gain thin a ration of two-thirds corn and one-third shorts.A ration composed of corn two parts, barley one part, and shorts one pari, produced 100 pounds gain at fully as low a cost as the ration containing meal meal nr tankage in con junction with corn.larley is therefore an economical feed when fed combined with com and sorts when finishing liogs for maiket.any if a silo is not wanted tho center space enn bo used either for granary or box stalls.The round type of barn has these ad van Luges; rirst, the same amount of outside surface used In square or rectangular barns will jnclu#e a greater surface In circular form. Second, the circular form lias the decided advantage of strength ovor the flat side. Third, the gable ends arc total losses and are avoided In the circular barn. Fourth, tho roof of a circular baru Ih self-supporting and does not Sag. nnd is far Ipss liable to dnmngn from heavy storms. Fifth, (he space Inclosed is more convenient, to use. j requiring less time and work to earo j for the same stock than In any other i. type of barn.Here Is a plan of lie ground floor *of a barn 58 feet in diameter, ^having tho same outside surface that a barn 36x60 feet would have. It provides room for 12 horses and 28 cows in stanchions, having three feet for each cow. This leaves eight Teet behind the cows so a leain and wagon can he used to clean the barn. or. if dairying is not followed, there will hr 1,150 square feet floor space, which will accommodate 30 to 50 head of yourg stock, owing to size. Kvrrytblug can be fed £nd watered from tho one alley. I defy anyone to comfortably house such a number of stock and as convenient to feed In any other than the round type of barn, aid in addition there is a space of US feet in diameter h the center to store feed in. Having built, a round bam that has proven satisfactory in every respect, I can not speak in too high terms of it. and while I would not build a round barn if building a small one, believe ihar when we ger. to a size suitable for 811 acres or more there is oily one proper style—round. If sanci, gravel or c/ushed atone is convenient I would use cement to build the lower story of barn, and If possible build so aj to have a natural elevation on one side so as to be able to drive in the second story without too much of a fill.
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The Enterprise
Malta, Montana, US
Wed, May 06, 1908
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