Radford S Practical Barn Plans

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Excerpt from Radford's Practical Barn Plans: Being a Complete Collection of Practical, Economical and Common-Sense Plans of Barns, Out Buildings and Stock Sheds The farm building department is given not only in the interest of the farmer, but because every one is more or less dependent upon the soil and is consequently directly or indirectly interested in the prosperity of the farmer. There comes a time when every business man and most other men want to build either a house, or barn, or both. It is the province of this book to offer suggestions. Plans are necessary to avoid mistakes. It is just as easy to secure good plans as to build after the ideas prevailing in the neighborhood, probably advanced by some carpenter who has had little or no experience outside of his own town. Barns as well as houses are built or should be built for a specific purpose and there are fundamental principles which are vital if the best results are to be obtained. It is not always necessary or desirable to build expensively. It often happens that an inexpensive or even a cheap structure will answer the purpose just as well, but this book does not countenance the building of unsightly houses or out buildings. There are essentials to be built into farm buildings that cannot be seen after they are finished, but these essentials must be there or the buildings will not be right. Drainage, foundation, ventilation and economy are four requisites that have received special attention in compiling the material for this work and they are four of the worst neglected principles when ordinary farm buildings are planned. Drainage and foundation are easily treated to fit each case, but ventilation is less tangible, although it is equally important, while the study of economy has no beginning and no legitimate ending, for it embraces not only the construction of the building, but the use of it ever after. Even a small farm building is worth very close attention in the planning, location and building because of its appearance and the labor it entails in its connection with general farm economy. In the arrangement of the book the first point made clear to the reader is the need for the structure. Naturally what the building is wanted for should be first made plain. Then the construction is followed to completion when the building takes its place in the farm economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...full length of both sides of the barn are self-supporting six foot sheds which allows full ventilation of the stables during summer through the open doors, but protection against both sun and rain. The barn will stable eight horses and twelve cows, the mangers all facing the long feed or driveway. The general appearance is imposing. The cost is $1,800, Mr. Risley doing his own hauling and furnishing the frame timbers from his own woods. CONCRETE AND WOOD BARN--A213 Cost of Blue Prints, $15.00 Design of a practical farm barn suitable The basement also contains a room for for a farm of eighty acres where the farm-wagons and buggies with a wash floor de 1:: i 1:: i o T%----er wishes to keep a dozen cows and five or pression in the center, an arrangement six work horses in the basement with stor-that makes a combination horse and cow age overhead for hay and other roughage, barn with three box stalls for calves or other stock. It is a convenient arrange-tions and mice and rats are not trouble made of reinforced concrete and are round-esting feature of this barn is the two large ed down to meet the floor at the bottom galvanized iron ventilators with glass tops which makes a very solid and lasting stall, which conducts the foul air from the bot The standing floors in the stalls are cov-tom of the stable out through the roof, ered with planks which of course are re-The cross section shows the cement floor newed occasionally, but the stall bottoms, with piers and footings in profile and the partitions and cement mangers are there cement work is indicated on the different to stay. Horses do not gnaw such parti-plans and elevations. 0 0 i Department of Horse Barns HORSE BARNS FARM buildings serve their purpose best when especially adapted to the