528 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



A Member: In Pennsylvania we sometimes have these old fash- 

 ioned bank barns. 1 think 1 understood you to say that it don't 

 make any difference where we put that, in the center or in the sides 

 of the barn, the flues should be perfectly straight. 



MR. COOK: Yes, the straight flue does two things in most barns. 

 In the first place, it interferes with the hay track, and in the next 

 place it interferes with something down below. We either drive 

 through there or go through to feed our cows. 



I will tell you how you can make an adjustable flue for a barn 

 like that. Let the flue come down solid to a point where it won't 

 strike your head, and from there down, build the flue enough smaller 

 so that it will telescope into the flue above. You can raise it or 

 lower it. You can take your circulation from the floor, take it half 

 way up or take it clear up from the ceiling. You don't need insula- 

 tion down in the stable because the temperature of the air on the 

 outside is the same as the temperature of the air on the inside. 



A Member: Why couldn't that flue be utilized as a hay chute? 



ME. COOK: It can be if the fellow that feeds the cows will shut 

 the door; it certainly can be, but I have never dared to advise it, 

 because one will go up in the hay mow and throw the hay down, 

 and forget to shut it, and the next morning you will come out, and 

 find frost on the roof in a cold morning and something will happen 

 to the hinge, and that will stop the circulation and you come out 

 there in the morning and everything seems kind of stuffy. So all 

 things considered, I have not advised it. 



The SECRETARY: Well, it wouldn't be large enough, would it? 



MR. COOK: Yes, it might be. I was in a barn yesterday where 

 it was right to an inch. Ordinarily I would not do that; I would 

 have a separate piece of machinery. 



A Member: I built a new barn four or five years ago, and we 

 have used the hay chute for ventilation of the basement. Whether 

 it is right or not, I am not decided, but I know that we get good 

 results. The hay chute don't come outside of the roof; it comes up 

 within three feet of the roof of that barn. It is forty feet from the 

 barn floor to the cone of the roof, and we throw the stuff down at 

 one end for "the cows and at the other end for the horses. We have 

 used this barn; this is the sixth winter. There is room in there for 

 twenty head of cattle and thirty head of horses, and it is full now, 

 and I have failed to detect any odor at anytime in going into that 

 barn. I had Mr. Agee with me last June and I felt a good deal 

 complimented by w T hat he said about that barn. He looked par- 

 ticularly after the ventilation, and asked about whether there was 

 any dampness or anything of that kind. I told him I never saw 

 anything of the kind. When he went away he said that I had the 

 second best barn that he had ever been in. We built that barn 

 ourselves; we didn't have any architect or anything about it. We 

 had a big barn right on this same ground, and we knew where we 

 were short in the other barn, and we kept that in mind from start to 

 finish. Our cattle and horses are healthy; w r e have never had a sick 

 animal for the last six years. 



