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BULLETIX 801, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Office space is needed in proportion to the size and business of the 
plant. The office should provide ample vault space for safe-keeping 
of all records. The character of the vault used should be suited to 
the possible test it might be subjected to. Usually a vault of 12 -inch 
brick or reinforced concrete walls and roof of reinforced concrete 
with approved steel doors is satisfactory. It is important that the 
office be in a separate building from the warehouse, since each consti- 
tutes a hazard to the other when combined. 
A plan for a combined office, classing room, and sample file room 
is shown by Plate XXX. This plan should fill the requirements for 
a plant of 10.000 bales capacity. The drawing indicates reinforced 
concrete construc- 
tion with steel sash. 
Fire - resistive con- 
struction is most de- 
sirable for such a 
building, and should 
always be used for 
protecting records 
and samples. Such 
buildings should be 
detached and well 
separated from the 
warehouse. 
HOSE HOUSES. 
Hose, or hydrant, 
houses should be 
provided at each 
hydrant. The re- 
quirements for these have been so well worked out and standard- 
ized by the insurance boards that it is sufficient to state here that de- 
tailed plans and specifications for hose houses may be secured by ap- 
plication to the National Board of Fire Underwriters or the Xational 
Fire Protection Association. A view of one type of hose house is 
shown in figure 7. 
PUMP HOUSE. 
If the fire-protective requirements call for a pump house, it should 
be located in a position well removed from all exterior hazards. 
Even if the pumps are driven by steam from the boiler, the pump 
room should be either entirely removed or cut off from the boiler 
room by a fire wall. The construction of the pump house should be 
either fire-resistive or slow-burning, the former being the more de- 
sirable. 
Fig. 7. — Design recommended for all hydrants, and espe- 
cially for three and four way hydrants, as the attach- 
ment of the hose to the side outlets of the hydrant 
without any sharp bends is rendered possible. 
