Practical Farm Buildings

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Excerpt from Practical Farm Buildings: Plans and SuggestionsOther things that can be done to keep dampness out of the air is to use. Absorbents, like dry dust, land plaster, or South Carolina rock on the droppings, which should be frequently removed, and by keeping plenty of dry straw, swale hay, buckwheat hulls, etc., on the floor overhead and used for scratching litter on the floor of the pen.Secure shelter where possible by building in the lee of a windbreak or a hill, or of other farm buildings. Buildings that face the south will get the largest amount of exposure to the sun's rays, other things being equal, they will be warmer, drier, and more cheerful. Too much glass makes a house too Cold at night and too warm during the daytime, because glass gives off heat at night as readily as it collects it in the daytime. Much glass makes construction expensive. Allow one square foot of glass surface to about 16 square feet of floor space, if the Windows are properly placed. The windows should be high and placed up and down rather than horizontally and low. In the former the sunlight passes over the entire floor during the day, from east to west, drying and purifying practically the whole interior. (see Fig. The time when sunshine is most needed is when the sun is lowest, from September 21 to March 21, the arrows show the extreme points which the sunshine reaches during this period.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.