Barn Plans
and Outbuildings

NEW AND REVISED EDITION

375
ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK:

ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

1911

Light, Heat and Ventilation of Stables; Barn at

Massachusetts Agricultural College; Plank Frame

Barns; How to Build a Round Barn; An Up-to-

date New York Barn; Plan of Convenient Farm

Barn and Yard; The Barn of Mr. David Lyman;

Mr. Lawson Valentine's Barn; An Ohio Barn; A

Missouri Barn; A Good Farm Barn; Another Barn

for Mixed Farming; Mr. Charles S. Sargent's

Barn; A Cheap but Convenient Barn; A Plan for

a Small Barn; Another Small Barn; Practical

Enlargement of Old Barns; Remodeling an Old

Barn.

1-58

CHAPTER II-CATTLE BARNS AND STABLES

Combined Stock and Hay Barn; A Barn for Feeding

Loose Cattle; A Circular Barn for Feeding Cattle;

A Decagonal Cattle Barn; Suggestive Plan for a

Stock Barn; A Rhode Island Cattle Barn; A

Western Cattle Barn; A Second Western Cattle

Barn; Covered Stalls for Cattle; Cheap Cattle

Sheds and Barns; Cheap Barn and Connecting

Stables; A Temporary Cattle Shed; A Combined

Cow Shed and Pigpen; Improving Old Stables.. 59-85

CHAPTER III-DAIRY BARNS

A Model Dairy Barn; Modern and Sanitary Cow

Stable; A Sanitary Cow Barn; An Illinois Dairy

Barn; A Ten-Sided Dairy Barn; Barn for One

V

Hundred Cows; Combined Dairy and Fruit Barn;

Modern Addition to a Dairy Barn; An Orange

County, N. Y., Cow Stable; A Westchester County,

N. Y., Dairy Barn; Another Orange County,

N. Y., Dairy Barn; An Extension Dairy Barn;

Enlarging a Barn for Dairy Purposes; New Style

Calf Pens; Cement Floors for Cow Stables; The

Hoard Stall for Dairy Cattle...

CHAPTER IV-CATTLE SHELTERS

86-120

An Archway Shelter; A Cheap Shelter for Cows;

Building Straw Barns; Cheap Temporary Shel-

ters for Stock; Other Styles of Temporary Shel-

ters; Cattle Shelters on the Plains.

CHAPTER V-SHEEP BARNS AND SHEDS

121-132

A Minnesota Sheep Barn; A Barn for Early Lambs;

Barn for Raising Winter Lambs; Sheep Sheds

and Racks; Shed for Soiling Sheep; Virginia

Sheep Barn; A Kansas Sheep Shelter; A Sheep

Feeding Barn; Sheep Shelter on the Plains.. 133-153

CHAPTER VI-PIGGERIES

A Serviceable and Well Arranged Piggery; A Brick

Piggery for Cold Climates; Twentieth Century

Hogpens; Movable Hogpens; Feeding Pen for

Fattening Hogs; Plan of a Piggery; A Convenient

Farm Pigpen; Mr. Crozier's Pigpen; A Comfort-

able Pigpen; Pens and Yards for One Hundred

and Fifty Hogs; Another Portable Pigpen; Pig-

pen, Hen House and Corn Crib Combined; A

Pigpen and Tool House; A Cheap Pigpen; Self-

closing Door for Pigpen; A Swinging Door for

a Piggery...
154-186

CHAPTER VII-POULTRY HOUSES

Scratching Shed Houses; Concrete Poultry Houses;
A Movable Poultry House; Three-Pen House;
A Cheap and Convenient Poultry House; An Ohio
Poultry House; Another Cheap Hen House;

Poultry Houses for Four Varieties; Poultry

House for a Number of Breeds; An Incubator

Cellar; A Practical Brooder House; A Cheap and

Economical Brooder House; Small Houses for

Poultry; Cheap Summer Shelter for Chicks; A

Place for Pigeons; Ducks and Duck Houses; The

Ventilation of Poultry Houses..

187-212

CHAPTER VIII-CARRIAGE HOUSES AND HORSE BARNS

Combination Horse and Carriage Barn; Stable for a

Village Lot; Stalls for Horses; A Combined Car-

riage and Tool House; A Twenty-sided Horse

Barn; A Cheap and Convenient Horse Barn.. 213-224

CHAPTER IX-CORN HOUSES AND CRIBS

The Connecticut Corn House; An Improved Corn

House; Western Corn Houses; Another Western

Corn House; Cement Floors Not Suitable; A Con-

venient Corn Crib; A Self-Feeding Corn Crib;

A Self-Discharging Corn Crib; A Cover for

Corn Cribs.
225-239

CHAPTER X-ICE HOUSES

Ice: Its Uses and Importance; Plan of an Ice House;

A Cheap Ice House; A Small Ice House; Under-

ground Ice Houses; An Ice House in the Barn;

A Cheaply Constructed Ice House; Ice Without

Houses.

240-255

CHAPTER XI-ICE HOUSES AND COOL CHAMBERS

Several Plans; A Chamber Refrigerator....

CHAPTER XII-DAIRY HOUSES,

256-260

CREAMERIES AND

CHEESE FACTORIES.

Ice House and Summer Dairy Combined; A Butter

Dairy; A Pennsylvania Dairy; A Dairy House for

Hot Climates; A Farm Creamery; Plans for a

Co-operative Milk Station; A Modern Cheese

Factory..

261-279