12 BULLETIN" 2Ti, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SCHEDULE FOR RATING. 









City. Town. 





First class. 



Second class. 



Third class. 



Fourth class. 





S2. 15 



82. 25 S2 35 



S° 50 











Charges for deficiencies for this type are the same as for Standard I. Deductions 

 as outlined under Standard I will also apply to Standard II. 



ADAPTATION OF STANDARD II. 



The standard warehouse of frame construction limited to 600 

 bales storage capacity is not to be recommended for general use. 

 Where real estate is so cheap that it can hardly be considered as an 

 item in the cost of a storage plant, and where cotton is to be handled 

 in small lots of 500 or 600 bales, it might be to advantage to con- 

 struct such houses, but in most cases the additional land required 

 would cost much more than it would to erect a warehouse with several 

 compartments separated by standard fire walls. Where large 

 quantities of cotton are handled, the cost of trucking would be 

 greatly increased by having each compartment separated from the 

 others by a space of 100 feet. It is also well to take into consid- 

 eration the fact that insurance on cotton in such buildings is much 

 higher than it is in the building described under Standard I. 



STANDARD HI.— CLOSED COTTON WAREHOUSE (OR COMPRESS), COMPARTMENTS 

 LIMITED TO 1,000 BALES' CAPACITY. 



Construction of building. — The outside walls of a one-story build- 

 ing conforming to this standard should be of brick not less than 

 13 inches in thickness, with or without standard parapets. (See 

 p. 32 for requirements of thickness of. walls for buildings more than 

 one story high.) The roof should be of slate, metal, or approved 

 composition. The storage capacity of no compartment should 

 exceed 1,000 bales, which requires about 72,000 cubic feet. If 

 divided into compartments, the division walls should be at least 

 17 inches in thickness for a one-story building and should extend 

 at least 2 feet above the roof. All joists should rest on ledges, 

 metal hangers, or metal wall plates. Each compartment shoidd 

 have one or more standard fireproof doors, not more than 40 feet 

 apart, opening outward, in each outside wall, whether at end or side 

 of compartment. The floors should be of earth, shell, cement, or 

 some other noncombustible material. Monitors, skylights, and roof 

 lanterns, or texas, are not allowed unless they are made of wired 

 glass properly set in metal frames. The top of each compartment 

 should be provided with one or more metal ventilators. The com- 

 press tower should be of metal or some other noncombustible material. 



Samples. All cotton stored in a warehouse of this standard 

 should be graded, and the samples, together with books and other 

 records, should be properly stored at a safe distance from the storage 

 compartments. 



