8 FAEM BUILDINGS IN SOUTH AFEICA 



covering for a considerable distance. This forms a valuable protection 

 against fire, especially if the door in this wall (at the end of the bull- 

 box feeding passage) be fire-resisting — preferably asbestos covered. By 

 closing this door, one wing of the building may be more or less isolated 

 from the other, and a fire raging in one wing may be prevented from 

 spreading to the other. 



While, in accordance with what has already been stated, the plan 

 shown in the frontispiece ought to be regarded as a final plan, which 

 will gradually materialize as different buildings are erected from time to 

 time and as funds and circumstances permit, it is no bad thing to have 

 even these presumed final buildings capable of easy extension without 

 much knocking down of walls, etc. Should such extension be required 

 in the case of the steading illustrated, the extra accommodation can 

 easily be arranged for by extending each wing of the main building. 

 The stock shed and piggeries can also be easily extended towards the 

 south. The silo might be extended upwards till a total internal height 

 of 40 feet, from the floor to the top of the masonry of the walls, is 

 reached. Of course the walls of the silo, as built at first, must be 

 constructed strongly enough to allow of this future increase of height. 

 In certain circumstances it might be considered advisable to build the 

 walls and footings of the feed-room strong enough to allow of an upper 

 storey being added at some future time. 



