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Barn Plans
Editors Indiana Farmer: 	
Tho time has come on the account of en-
silage coming in general use, that people
want to build barns that will hold lots of
cattle instead of hogs and fodder, and as I
have never yet seen a plan of a barn published which has handy and good places to
build silos, I will through the kindness of
the editor of the Indiana Farmer give
you what I think is a good plan, and at the
same time you will catch the idoa of description of cow stable given by Mr. Mc-
Calmont in the issue of 8th inst, which is a
very neat and clean way of keeping milk
cows.
This barn is intended to be 5Gx84 feet
which is the measurement on the outside
and includes cow shed. This will hold 48
head of milk cows and give each one individual stall room three feet and two inches
wide or would hold more if stables are left
out. The mow side from ground up, a
part over drive floor from silos to door and
space over cows in shed on high side will
hold about 54 tons of hay. Three silos
16x14 measured on outside will hold
enough ensilage to feed 48 head of cattle
about six months by giving 50 pounds per
day to each cow, if built from six or eight
inches above ground level up to roof. I
have been figuring on a barn 18 feet to top
of side posts; if barn is built 20 feet high
of course you could put in more hay and
ensilage—(I believe I would advise building 20 feet instead otl8).
My aim in making barn in this shape is
so that it can be made  larger  or smaller
posts and nail solid; this will keep posts
from spreading or giving at the corners.
After boards are put on in this way put on
paper then seal (by running boards up.and
down) with ilooring lumber dressed on one
sido, tongue and grooved and not over
four inches wide, in this manner you will
have about as good a silo as you will want.
You  will seo by cut that you will not
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and still give about the same proportion of
feed without changing building only in
length, which can be done by putting in
one or two more sets of posts fourteen
feet apart and adding another silo or two,
or taking out set of posts.
My object in leaving hay mow side without floor was to accommodate you if you
wish to build more silos. You will see
that posts are about the right distance
apart to build a silo between eacji set without much trouble as you will only have to
build a solid foundation under sills. Break
* stone up inside of space to the depth of six
or eight inches and then cement bottom
and sides. This gets you all ready for
studding which must be put in on sill and
run up under plate girders, or braces can
be sawed out of wood of studding and if
any bracing is needed it can be done between studding. If you think you are likely to build more silos it would be a good
idea to put boards on outside of studding
next to cow shed right at the start for the
purpose; run boards on across studding
which may be rough and cheap, then your
tarred paper and then the outside boards
up and down same as rest of barn. I will
say right here, that if you will send to
Smalley Manufacturing Company of Manitowoc, Wis., I think they will furnish you
a book on silos written by A. J. Cook, also
books on ensilage machinery, which will
give you a good description and tell you
how to build silos. I might add though
that a good plan to build up the inside of
silos is to begin at bottom, put on rough
boards across studding and run every otlier
board out even with outer edge of corner
along tho sides to waste and rot your barn.
Mi* idea is to put tho manure in a box,
reach up to rope and pull it out, dump it
as far from barn as you wish and bring the
box back without moving from your placo
of shoveling.
I will give you as near as I can my idea
by a few cuts. I will describe after giving
plan of barn, which is as follows:
have to go out of doors to do any of your
feeding. Hay can be put down from almost any place in tho barn, and ensilage
will not bo hard to get at (silo openings
should be run from top down to drive
floor) drive floor does not have plates below top cross plates, but if a part is to be
Pig. 1 represents end view showing
foundation and timbers about as they
should be, other end should be just tho
samo, but next tier of timbers should be
back of this 14 feet and the next the same
distance, and so on, in these you will not
need timbers marked a.   You can add a
sills to support one e»d of. lloor in cow
stable; c is four oak sills 5x0 inches put up
edgewise on broken stone and cement
with about one inch of cement in bottom
to form the manure trough 18 inches wide
and six or seven inches deep, one end of
floor is nailed to these. It would be well
to put in a double lloor of inch oak boards
and break joints. I-'eed floors will be over
c by tl in shed stable and over b by d on
otlier side; / is hay mow* running to
ground; g is drive way; h is cow stables;
long straight line under sills is to show
comparative slant of floors in cow stables.
Fig. o will givo somo idea of looks of
barn floor, square black spots show whero
posts go on sills; a is stalls; h space back
of stalls for ditch and passage ways; c a
few joists across drive way; d a few boards
down for floor show that they run lengthwise; <■ is haymow with timbers lying
on ground, with boards laid across to
keep hay oil' of ground; / passage way
from main lloor to feeding alley in shed;
g is alley and feed floor in cow shed; h
ground lloor of three silos 10x14 on outside; i is four stable doors and the two
large doors.
Fig. 4 is a high corner view of barn,
which will not be changed much by making barn shorter or longer. Low cow
shed can bo left oil" in this stable if only
half tho number of cows are kept, and in
this case barn need not be so high as
where both stables are used now for the
manure carrier.
Fig. 5 shows you a section of track and
apair of pulley blocks fastened together by a
hook and each end of a rope fastening on to
end of pulleys.   In order to put this track
used run cross pieces from one side to the
other from front doors back toward silos
as far as you want to go. In storing drive
in from back door, stop before you get to
mow, then unload and can then get under
mow and drive out front door, by doing
this way  you can  havo your mow floor
few 2x0 pieces to this to stiffen boards
where needed. Rafters should be 2x0
inches and 10 inches apart, long rafters
can be divided on' plate by letting them
lap up beside ono another just a short
space over plate.
Fig. 2 shows end of sills and floor just
lower than if you had to drive under with
load on wagon.
I have added to this barn a way to get
back of front sill in (Fig. 1.) a is sides of
barn; b is the live man sills; c four narrow
sills  or  joists  to support  floor  in  cow
manure out without throwing it out all  stable; dis 2x0 inch pieces spiked on to
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up, nail a 2x1 scantling on under side just
over stables, then nail or screw on to it
hook bucket (Fig. 0) on to hook on pulley,
your rope is to be a belt rope and runs out
over pulley on end of trestle (Fig") and
back to another pulley fixed up in other
of barn. You are now ready to run manure out, this trestle is connected to your
track in the barn by scantling running to
it out near upper corner of door which in
order to shut the door must be fixed so that
it can bo taken out like a bar. Trestle can
be arranged to run m-fture up and as far
out as you want it. When bucket is near
end of dump the bucket will come up
against an iron rod running from one leg
of trestle to other then slide up till hooks
on sides catch, when it will turn over and
opposite side will stop on shelf, run out to
catch iron ears on top corner of bucket,
this will dump, now as bucket is dumped
you can pull on the rope in the opposite
way from what you did to run it out and
bucket will return to you.
(Fig. 7.) Trestle is made by laying 2x4
scantling on edge about 10 inches apart,
then nailing cross pieces on every four or
five feet to hold them together. Legs aro
put on to outside edge of outside scantling,
center scantling is to fasten track to, on
the trestle, by running them up and away
from the barn you can dump manure
as high and as far away from barn as you
like. J. M. Noble.
Moore's Hill.
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