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ROUND BARNS SAID TO BE CHEAPESTCOST LESS TO CONSTRUCT AXP HAVE SILO IX CENTER TO SIMPLIFY FEEDINGThese Barns Are Simple and Easily 1 Put Together; Stock That Is Kept ' in Round Barns Can be Cared for With Small Amount of. Labor, Which Counts Today.Round barns are less expensive to construct than rectangular ones of the same area.In this day and age when the cost of building materials has gone skyward the merits of the round barnare worthy of consideration. Many farmers who are compelled to build barns in the near future are planning to construct circular ones.A popular size for round barns is 60 feet in diameter. The building material, which has been found to be the most satisfactory, is hollow clay tile. The height of the walls up to the eaves is 20 feet. These clay tiles, which have dead air chambers in them, make an exceptionally warm barn in winter and a cool one in summer.A farmer, who has a round barn 1 of this size has built stalls in it for } seven horses and IS dairy cows, and 1 says the arrangement of stalls for this number of animals is satisfac*- ! tory. Bins are constructed between 3 the space allotted to the cattle and the stalls in which the horses stand. The entire upstairs is used for stor- c age of hay and forage.A feature of this barn is that aa •? 1-. /irtnc'f'hnnfQ/l in nonfat' Tlia
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Polson Flathead Courier
Polson, Montana, US
Thu, May 13, 1920
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