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A ROUND BARN.A Pennsylvanian Tells Why He Likes It and How to Bnild.My barn, built in 1900, will accommodate seventy-five bead of cattle and fifteen horses, besides a good sized flock of sheep. The cost was less than a square barn of the .same capacity. It is more convenient, and, I believe, it is warmer in winter. My estimate is that it requires about three-fourths as much lumber as a barn of ordinary shape, says an American Cultivator writer.To cover it required about 75,000 shingles, and the amount of lumber was 75,000 feet. It is 300 feet in circumference and has in the center a silo sixteen feet in diameter and forty-flve feet high, holding 245 tons. Around the silo is a bin which I use for potatoes, holding about 2,000 bushels. The floor of the barn is cement on gravel, using one-third cement and two-thirdsA PENNSYLVANIA BOUND BABN.sand, and putting on a layer two inches thick on top of the gravel. The floor costs about 6 cents per square foot. The beams are made of 1 by 6 inch stuff, two boards thick, nailed in one piece, extending entirely around the barn. The Inside posts are 6 by G lumber and set twelve to sixteen feet apart. The sill is of 1 by 8 inch boards, six boards thick. The sills, beams and plate around the silo are made of % by G inch boards nailed around in one piece and form hoops in which to build the silo. Four posts support each hoop.The silo is boarded perpendicularly inside the hoops, then lined horizontally with half inch stuff, being careful to break joints at the end of boards. Lath and then plaster with cement. After the basement is up raise the silo about twelve feet or to the height wanted for the scaffold over the driveway, then raise the posts between floor and bay and build the beam on them in same manner with 1 by 8 inch boards. Now put up the overlays from silo beam to this and raise outside posts (4 by 6 inches) and fasten well to build the plate (1 by G inches) on. Now build up the silo to where the roof comes, raise the posts for purlin plates and put on the rafters 2 by 5 inch lumber after siding up around outside.The doors in the silo are 18 by 30 inches, made of matched pine, and ■ about ten inches apart from bottom to top. There is a chute for silage to drop through in front of doors 18 by 36 inches with wing doors.A round barn is very handy to work in. Hay can be unloaded with a horse fork, using no truck. The silo is in the center of the feeding floor, and cattle can be fed with very little walking. When cleaning out I drive a carl around behind the tie-ups. I save about 25 per cent in cost of barn amount of lumber and in labor of caring for the stock.
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Saint Johnsbury Caledonian
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, US
Wed, Sep 21, 1904
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