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Title: Our farm and building book.
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: William A. Radford
Subjects: farm buildings -- catalogs agricultural buildings barns house plans
Publisher: Radford Architectural Company
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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ows in stanchions, six cow and calf pens,two bull pens, and ten horse stalls. A 14-foot silo, togefher with the big hay storage space under the roof, provideplenty of room for feed. Barn is arranged with central driveway clear through from end to end. Feed and littercarriers help to make the work easy. We can furnish complete set of blue-printed working plans and typewrittenspecifications for only $10.00. When ordering, ask for Design No. A272L. department and the cattle department, cording to the layout of the yards. On the horse side of this partition are The floor plan has been carefully two single doors, and one double door worked out to provide convenient feed on a roller track which reaches clear alleys, hay chutes, etc. across the barn from side to side. In the cow stable the concrete floor is In this plan the silo is 14 feet indiameter, which is large enough forthe stable as it is designed. Most feed-ers prefer a silo about this diameter,it is better to have two small ones. 16
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Grow Alfalfa and Fill the Money Bag! . How to Grow Alfalfa Alfalfa is easily grown insome soils and climates, whilein others it seems almost im-possible. It will grow in sand and inloam and in stiff clay. It is not par-ticular about the character of the soil,so long as it is warm, and porous,and contains sufficient moisture, to-gether with the necessary bacteria. The water table must not be toonear the surface, still, sometimes goodalfalfa is grown on comparatively lowground, that even overflows at times,—if the drainage is good. Runningwater for a day or so wont hurt al-falfa, but the water must not standon it. Tile Draining to Improve Land Lands that are naturaiiy too wet for alfalfa often turn off the best and largest yields when they are tiledrained. Theoretically, tile drains should bedeep down in the ground. A line oftile put down 10 feet below the sur-face in a free soil will drain a wideswath, but the cost is too great.Then, it generally happens that theland we are working w

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