Identifier: cu31924080066313 (find matches)
Title: Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hopkins, Alfred, 1870-1941
Subjects: Farm buildings
Publisher: New York : R.M. McBride & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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l. The air can withquite as much advantage be let into the building through thewindow, which, falling back in cheeks, will send the currentof fresh air up toward the ceiling. The air may be suckedout on the leeward side of the building more easily throughthe window than it would be through the ducts, so that caremust be used in regulating them, but no more than wouldhave to be exercised in intelligently operating any system ofventilation. If the cow barn has artificial heating, the inletducts may be omitted; if the barn is without artificial heat,the ventilation is bettered by the inlet ducts. ARTIFICIAL HEAT.—There are differences of opinionwith regard to artificial heat in the cow barn. The tempera-ture of the cow barn need never be over 55 degrees Fahren-heit. On very cold nights this degree of temperature cannotbe maintained in barns whose location is exposed and whichhave not their proper complement of cattle. There neverwas any doubt in the authors mind that properly regulated
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A FEATURE MAY BE MADE OF THE MANURE TROLLEY, THOUGH THIS MAY APPEAR TOO AMBITIOUS IN ITS PRESENT NAKED STATE. WHEN COVERED WITH VINES IT WILL BE SATISFACTORY

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