Vol. LXX. No. 4080. 
NEW YORK, JANUARY 7, 1911. 
WEEKLY, $1.00 PER YEAR. 
A KENTUCKY FEED BARN. 
Plan, Materials and Details of Building. 
While Kentucky is renowned for her fine horses 
and fair women, the past generations have not been 
given to building as substantially as the present. On 
many farms may be seen just such work as this 
shown in the photo¬ 
graphs, Figs.- 1 and 2. 
The old buildings are 
passing, with the old 
fogy notion that any 
kind of a barn will do 
just so it keeps off the 
rain. The low state of 
tilth which much of our 
soil is in at present, and 
the wages asked by the 
laborers on the farms, 
make it necessary that 
we take all possible ad¬ 
vantages, and save all 
that the soil produces. 
With sufficient barn 
room to store all the 
hay, corn stover, sheaf 
oats and other grains 
that are taken from the 
soil, stock well housed, 
to consume all of this, 
converting it into soil¬ 
building material, a man 
is on the right road to 
success. 
The barn building is 
44x70 feet, and 16 feet 
to the eaves. The loft 
floor is nine feet from 
the lower floor. The loft 
is 44x70 fe'et, 15 feet to 
the main truss beams. 
The mansard roof with 
self-supporting trusses 
gives us 46,200 . cubic 
feet of loft room. The 
siding is yellow pine, 
novelty or drop siding. 
The sheeting is No. 2 
common flooring, which 
is put on solid. The 
roof is an indestructible 
composition material. 
The floor of the loft is No. 
1 yellow pine tongued 
and grooved. The floor 
in the lower part is 
made of concrete, ex¬ 
cept that of the stalls, 
which is of tough clay 
and sand; this makes a 
fine floor on which the 
horses may stand with¬ 
out injury, as caused 
from standing on a 
concrete floor. Fig. 3 
shows the method of 
framing, Fig. 5 is* the 
floor and foundation 
plan. This shows the arrangement of the driveway, 
feet wide; the stalls, which are eight by 10 
feet; the feed alleys, three feet wide; the engine 
room, eight by 14 feet; harness room, eight by 14 
feet; the feed-mixing room 10x14 feet; the tool room 
10x14 feet; the feed carrier that runs as shown by 
the dotted lines, the concrete watering trough, the 
mangers and hay chutes, and the windows and the 
doors. 
A, big. 5, a six horse-power gasoline engine, 
that runs the pump to a driven well, which is 110 
feet deep and furnishes the finest of water. The 
engine also runs the feed cutters, feed grinders and 
crete watering trough, capacity 60 gallons. D, the 
track of the feed carrier. E, feed mixing room, 
where all of the chop feeds are mixed previous to 
being fed to the horses, mules and cattle. F, tool 
room; G, the feed alleys; IT, the mangers; I, the 
hay chutes; J. the harness room, in which the. stair¬ 
way is located; 1. 1. 1. are the box stalls; 2. 2. are 
open stalls. The windows of the first story are made 
to slide down into a pocket, which prevents them be¬ 
ing broken, when open. The foundation is of con¬ 
crete, two feet deep and six inches thick, except 
where each post stands; here it is one foot thick, so 
as to correspond with the size of the post. Fig. 4 
shows the plan of the loft door; A, feed grinder; B, 
stover and straw cutting 
box; C, hay chutes ; D, 
corn sheller; E, room for 
bran, shelled oats and 
mill feed. This room has 
chutes running to the feed 
mixing room on the first 
floor. F shows the posi¬ 
tion of the double track 
for the hay carriers; G, 
the roller doors. The sizes 
and lengths of the ma¬ 
terials are given in the 
list of materials used in 
the building. 
As the cost of mate¬ 
rial differs in different 
localities, also that of 
labor, it would be diffi¬ 
cult to give a correct 
statement as to the cost 
of such a barn. Much 
of the material used in 
the construction of this 
one came out of the 
frame of a sawmill. The 
cost of wrecking the 
frame of the mill and 
the changing of the 
framework was almost 
equal to that of framing 
all new timbers. The 
foundation of the barn 
is one foot above the 
level of the road that 
runs in front of the 
barn. The old fence will 
be cleared away and the 
front of the lot between 
the barn and the road 
will be graded to a slight 
grade, running from the 
barn ti the road, which 
is about 50 feet. There 
are two iron tanks buried 
in the ground just beside 
the barn; one of these 
holds 1,000 gallons and 
the other one 300. The 
1,000-gallon tank is for 
the well water, which is 
hard, and the 300-gallon 
tank is for rain or soft 
water that is stored in a 
large cistern as it runs 
from the barn. These 
tanks are so fitted with 
pipes that run from the 
engine to the heater in 
the basement of the 
dwelling, that the water 
is forced all over the house. The well water is used 
for watering the stock and other purposes where water 
is required on the farm. This barn is estimated to 
have cost $2,500. Of course the cost of construction 
varies greatly in different localities; both hired labor 
and materials may be secured more cheaply in one 
place than another. The matter of labor is especially 
the grindstone and rip saw in the tool room. B. con- 
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW. Fig. 1. 
A KENTUCKY FEED BARN. Fig. 2. 
