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REPORTS, SPECIFICATIONS, AND ESTIMATES 
Submitted by the Competitors to whom the Prizes were awarded. 
“ PLOUGH-SHARE.”— First Prize. 
REPORT 
upon Farm Buildings for a 400 acres mixed farm (assumed to be half grass 
and half arable). 
Generally. 
In designing the above ray chief object has been to design a plain, strong, 
and substantial farmstead, being built of brick, with tiled or slated roofs, 
concrete floors and fittings ; thus the subsequent repairs and maintenance is 
reduced to practically nil. 
I wish particularly to draw attention to my concrete stalls and mangers as 
erected for stables and cowhouses. They are indestructible, being both 
vermin-proof, fire-proof, and sanitary ; the whole being the result of twenty 
years’ practical experience. 
The Farmstead has a southern aspect, the fold yards being open at front 
and sheltered by buildings around. 
Block No. 1 
Comprises five-bay waggon shed, mixing and turnip house, with copper and 
mixing bin with water tap over, engine house, chaff bin, and straw barn. 
Granary over waggon shed ; meal, cake, and horse corn granary over mixing 
and turnip house, with concrete steps up to same ; stage for chaff cutter over 
chaff bin and engine house ; and straw barn full height at end. 
Note. — A fireproof floor is fixed over engine house. 
Concrete floors are provided for in mixing house, turnip house, engine 
house, chaff bin, and straw barn ; the granary floors are wood upon steel 
joists ; all walls around granary are rendered in cement and sand 3 ft. high. 
The mixing house is situated in the centre of the buildings with easy access 
to any part. 
The machinery fixed comprises turnip pulper, corn mill, chaff cutter, with 
all necessary shafting, belting, and broad canvas belt to carry chaff from chaff 
cutter to mixing house ; all driven by an oil engine. (These are tenant’s 
fixtures, and are not included in the estimate.) 
Crossley's Ram Pump , in engine house, is connected to Artesian well 
(120 ft. deep) and made to deliver into a 1,500-gallon cast-metal tank fixed as 
high as possible in granary roof ; the water then gravitates to all parts of 
buildings and house. 
An emergency hydrant is fixed, with length of hose attached, under 
concrete staircase and opening into cowhouse. 
Block No. 2 
Consists of two loose boxes, pigsties (all opening into fold yard), trap house, 
harness room, side entrance to buildings, and nag stable. All have concrete 
floors, grooved where necessary, with open channels delivering into fold yard. 
The divisions and troughs in pigsty, and mangers in boxes, are all formed 
in concrete in situ , and walls internally rendered around in cement. 
Ventilation is provided by air grates, sliding windows, top half of doors to 
open where necessary, and raised ridges on roof. 
Light is provided by glass in top parts of windows, and glass lights in roof. 
