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JROUND BARN IS LIKED.Called Stronger and More Convenient Than Rectangular Houae.Do dairymen know tbat a round barn Is mucb stronger and far more convenient than a rectangular barn and that the latter requires 22 per cent more wall and foundation and 34 to 58 per cent more In cost of mate rial to inclose the same space? Professor Wilber J. Fraser of the University of Illinois built a sixty foot round dairy barn on his twenty acre demon-stratlon dairy farm at the university i at Urbana two years ago and has found it entirely satisfactory. He tookHOW Jl ROUND BARN IiOOKB.[The round barn has many friends. The accompanying illustration, reproduced from the Orange Judd Farmer, shows a barn of this kind owned by Vaulot Chris, who has a farm not far from Freeport, III. The lower part Is used for stabling animals and the upper part for housing grain, hay and farm machinery. The bridge on the left Is a drive, and the hay and other stuff are hauled to the barn over this.]unusual pains to find out the most suitable, convenient and economical construction for a dairy barn and silo (the silo Is essential to the business), and he has been helped by the exact figures and experience of a carpenter who makes a specialty of building round barns.The silo is at the center. Feeding commences at the chute and Is continued arouhd the circle, ending with the silage cart «t the chute again. There is a like saving of steps in feeding hay and grain. The roof Is entirely self supporting, and there are no posts or girders to obstruct the haymow. The hay carrier runs on a central track midway between the silo and the outside wall. Each row of boards around the barn forms a hoop that holds the building together. The circular wall and arched roof ward off the wind and present the greatest resistance to n storm.Much less material is required for the silo In the center of the round barn, but the silo must go outside the rectangular barn. The sixty fool round barn requires $780 for material while the 30 by 78% foot plank frame barn of the same capo city requires $1,023 and the mortise frame barn of the same size $1,203. The same figures for nypnety foot round barn compared wlth/rpnnk frame and mortise frame barns 30 by 170% feet are respectively $1,028. $2,008 and $2,498 These figures compare the barns without silos But a sixty foot round barn and silo re quire $1,040 worth of material, while the rectangular barn of the same on poclty and a slio require $1,424. show ing a saving of $370 for the round barn and silo, and If It Is compared with a mortise frame rectangular barn the saving Is $589. The corresponding figures for a ninety foot round barn and silo are $2,024, $2,718 and $3,208.
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Moore Inland Empire
Moore, Montana, US
Thu, May 11, 1911
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