A R N PLA -^,^,r I TO MODERNIZE YOUR FARM ^LOUDENIZE YOUR BARN LOUDEN BARN PLANS PUBLISHED BY THE LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY FAIRFIELD, IOWA PRICE, $1.00 Copyrighted by the LOUDEN MACHINERY QOMPANY 1914 lL.i~ t 4.|4-;-44-4^44444444-44H^4^i^~ JE ^^ — l^^^i T-l -L co**cs^re: /^^A^aeK CLf^f'^/^G fHL€\ 1"t--ti-ft--ttt-t-t-t-t" coA¥CGcrc aurrcG FOREWORD This book IS published with the view of aiding the farmer and dairyman in building his barns so they will properly and economically answer the purpose for which they are intended. Our Architectural Department was established for the purpose of assisting our customers in not only planning barns that will meet all their requirements in the most economical construction, but also to assist them in solving all other problems that come up, such as proper lighting, heating, ventilating, drainage, disposal of manure, and other sanitary and hygienic problems, as well as proper protection against weather exposure and fire risk. The department is conducted by men of wide experience who are competent to handle all kinds of farm building construction, and they will combine utility and sanitation together with economy and strength. Our landscape architect can so arrange the farm buildings of any large estate that they will harmonize with their surroundings, and be in harmony with one another. Your farm buildings can display individuality and good architectural design, and at the same time be practical, modern and convenient, separately and collectively. All the plans shown in this book are our own original designs, produced by our Architectural Department. Some of them have been copied from our illustrations and published in other books and periodicals. These plans represent the practical results from ideas mostly originated by farmers and dairymen, but are worked out in detail by our expert dairy architects to meet the climatic conditions and other requirements of individual cases. Let Us Help You Plan Your Barn Whenever you build a barn or any other kind of building, you build for a definite purpose; this definite purpose should be kept in mind from the start to the finish. Whether it be for properly housing and caring for live stock, for the storage of feed and farm implements, for preparing products for market, or for a combination of some of these, no matter what the purpose may be, it should be built with the correct amount of floor space for each purpose, the total of which will determine the size of the building. This rule seems very simple, but sometimes becomes very complicated when the question of economical construction is taken into consideration. For example, a barn 40 feet square would have a floor area of 1 ,600 square feet, and may be of the correct size and meet all the requirements for which it is intended. At the same time it may be found after careful calculation that a building 32x50 feet, which has the same floor area, will also meet the same requirements, and may cost less on account of not requiring so heavy construction for a 32-foot span as would be necessary for a 40-foot span. This is where the practical builder and trained architect, who is thoroughly versed in the requirements of modern farm buildings, can be of great service to the farmer and dairyman. Page Three ^ LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY ^Lr Write Us About Your Building Problems Through the large number of inquiries received and designs worked out, this depart- ment becomes an exchange of ideas about farm buildings. New ideas about construction and arrangement are received every day, and new plans developed to suit individual needs. Modern Barn Requirements Each barn should be an individual study, and its construction, size and arrangement should represent the results of a systematic analysis of the kind of barn needed. It should be of such a size as will comfortably and economically hold the live stock, feed, bedding, and all articles that it is to contain. The construction should be so that it will resist the weather and be permanent. It should be as fire-resisting as the financial invest- ment will admit. It should be free of all unnecessary posts and other structural members that would interfere with the convenient and economical handling of materials, stock, products and by-products. Make The Cows Comfortable Cow comfort receives much attention, because practical tests have demonstrated that an improvement giving comfort and making the cows contented is a good investment. Too much thought and study can not be given to the construction, arrangement and equipment of the barn for the comfort and profit of the herd. Good Ideas From Practical Men These plans are not submitted to the reader as designs that will be just what he ought to have to obtain the best possible returns from his farm, but they will meet most of the general requirements for various capacities, uses and climates. They are selected from among the last 2,000 plans drawn by our architects. Construction We will not attempt to go into detail and give the methods of construction best for certain purposes, as this would require more pages than this entire book contains, but we desire to call attention to some facts that may be of general interest. Concrete and metal are now used where materials are subject to decay from moisture and from weather conditions. Hollow tile are becoming very popular for walls, because they resist fire and insulate against heat and cold. Lumber is used for those parts least affected by accumulation of moisture, as it costs less and will serve the purpose. Section of Louden Cow Stall Page Four TQUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY ^{^(^ rAIRFIELD. IOWA ^hVyf^ Sheet metal, such as corrugated galvanized iron, is much used where light construction and fire resistance from the exterior are desired, and for light roof construction for hay sheds, shelter sheds, implement sheds, etc. Use Plenty of Windows Sunshine is the world's best and cheapest disinfectant, and therefore the more windows you place in the walls of the dairy barn the better. It is impossible to get too much light in a barn for any kind of live stock. Some argue that it is hard to keep out flies if the barn is not dark. Put shades on the windows to pull down when the stock is let out, keep the barn clean, and locate the manure pit 100 feet from the barn, and the flies will not bother you. In extremely cold climates it is well to use double glazed sash, or put on extra storm sash in winter. .-^ouDinN vcNTiLAT/A^c, wiNDow 3-^ The windows should be so constructed that when open the draft will not blow directly on the cows or permit rain, sleet or snow to blow in. Save Labor Farmers realize the value of labor-saving devices because of the shortage of help. Locate the silo where it will be convenient for feeding as well as filling. Locate the feed J] \ bins where they can be reached Typical Plan of Dairy Barn with the least number of steps, and locate the manure pit where you will not have to push the load up hill, if it can be avoided. Properly handle feed and manure by using improved methods and labor- saving appliances, and you will greatly increase the earning capacity of your dairy. The barn must be convenient for your help, as well as comfortable for your cows. It should be sanitary, and so equipped that no labor is lost in cleaning or feeding. It might be built according to one or a dozen plans, and fitted with this or that ventilating system, but the principles of each are the same and should combine convenience and comfort with sanitation, strength and durability. Write us for any information you need that is not covered in this book. Any ideas that we have gained through our 48 years of barn specializing experience are yours. Our Agricultural-Architecture department offers the opportunity for expert and impartial advice and assistance on all important farm and farm building operations. . , We can furnish a man of acknowledged ability to visit you and consult with you upon any subject relatmg to the betterment of the farm, whether your desire is to increase the efficiency of an old farm and its buildmgs, or to estab- lish a newly acquired estate upon a modern basis. ■ j j uy ^ The choice of a property is often difficult for the inexperienced. An expert opmion on the worth and adaptability of land is a part of our service. The fees for this special service are very reasonable. AGRICULTURAL-ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT. LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY. FAIRFIELD, IOWA Page Five ,! ^s I — t e: Eir' I ^3 ^=> "^^ C LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR BARN CONSTRUCTION Concrete Materials Concrete is ordinarily composed of cement, sand, gravel or crushed stone and water. The selection of these materials is largely dependent on local conditions, and while no unalterable rule can be laid down in regard to it, certain general conditions may serve as a guide to the inexperienced. Cement Portland cement of the best quality should be used. It must be carefully protected when stored. If the cement gets damp it becomes lumpy. The presence of a few lumps in a sack of cement does not spoil the whole sack, but the cement should be screened and the lumps rejected, if they are too hard to crumble between the fingers easily. If the cement is properly stored it will keep indefi- nitely, but the sacks should never be piled on the ground nor on a damp floor. Unless the cement can be piled on a dry floor a temporary platform should be provided. Sand, Stone and Gravel The sand and broken stone or gravel are called the "aggregate." Generally speaking the particles which pass through a sieve having a '4 -inch mesh are considered "Sand" while those larger than ' I -inch are called ' gravel." A fine material from crushed stone and known as "stone screenings" is sometimes used as a substitute for sand. Theo- retically such a material is good, but, as usually obtained, the screenings contain an excessive amount of stone dust which makes the material unsuitable for concrete unless the dust and very fine particles are screened out. Sand and gravel are probably the most popular materials because they are frequently found in nature in a condition practically ready for use and may be secured at little cost. The sand should be clean. An idea of its cleanli- ness may be obtained by shaking some of it with water in a glass jar, and if there is a decided muddi- ncss it is evident that the sand is too dirty to use in its original condition. The sand can be cleaned by stirring it in a tank with two or three changes of water, or by spreading it in a thin layer and washing it with a hose. F'refercnce should be given to sand containing a mixture of coarse and fine grains. Extremely fine sand does not make a strong mortar. If it is the only sand al hand, get a coarse material and mix with it. Either crushed stone or clean gravel is suitable for the coarse material. It is chiefly a question of which can be obtained at the least cost. Good concrete cannot be made with flat stones, especially if they are soft and shaly. Neither are long, splintery stones suitable. Stone which disintegrates upon exposure to the weather, or that which has a chalky surface, will not make strong and satisfac- tory cement. Proportions The quantities of all the materials used in making mortar or concrete should be measured accurately. Never use sand and gravel mixed as they occur in nature, but provide a screen and separate the material into sand and gravel and remix them in definite proportions. The reason for this is that the natural deposit almost invariably con- tains a great deal more sand in proportion to the gravel than should be permitted. Mixing Concrete To make good mortar of concrete it is neces- sary to have every particle of sand covered with cement, and every particle of gravel or crushed stone covered with the cement-sand mortar. The mixing is quite as important as any other part of the process of making the concrete. The equipment for mixing concrete by hand should be a tight platform about 7 ft.xl2 ft., square-pointed shovels, a mortar hoe. steel-body wheelbarrow, sand screen, mortar box, water barrels, buckets, and a measur- ing box holding four cubic feet. A well-made mixing platform should be a part of the regular equipment of a farm, and it will be cheaper to build a good one at the outset than to waste time and money in constructing and using temporary ones. Such a platform can be built as follows: using 2-inch lumber, nailed upon three 4x4-inch stringers rounded at the ends. The out- side stringers project a little at both ends of the platform and arc bored for clevis irons, so that the platform may be readily dragged about the farm. To make this platform requires the following: Bill of Lumber 12 pieces 2 in. x 12 in. x 7 ft. dressed on one side and two edges. 2 pieces 2 in. x 2 in. x 12 ft. dressed on one side and two edges. 2 pieces 4 in. x 4 in. x 13 ft. rough. I piece 4 in. X 4 in. X 12 ft. rough. The reason for specifying dressed lumber is to Pagre Six \ ^SESBS^SBEESaCk, ^lEBSESai T.OUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY provide a smooth and tight platform which will reduce the work of shoveling. Workmanship and Quality In preparing to mix a batch of concrete, the materials should be carefully measured and not guessed at. First spread the sand in a thin layer over a portion of the platform. Then empty the cement on top of the sand and mix both together dry, continuing the turning until the color is uni- form and without streaks of sand or cement. After the cement-sand mixture has thus been turned at least twice, spread it into a thin layer and dump upon it the gravel which has been previously measured. The mixing is then repeated until the gravel is thoroughly distributed throughout the mass; this will require turning the batch at least three times. Make a trough in the center and pour into it nearly as much water as is required. A medium wet mixture of \:2i:5 concrete will re- quire for a one-sack batch about seven gallons of water. The whole mass must now be thoroughly mixed, or until every particle of gravel is covered with the cement-sand mortar. When the mixing is completed, the concrete should be left in a long compact pile, so as to protect it from rapidly drying out. Everything should be in readiness so that the concrete can be placed with the least possible delay. The quality of the concrete depends largely upon the amount of water in the mixture, a wet mixture giving better results than a dry one. In fact, a dry mixture is not capable of developing all the strength of the cement. Dry mixtures are frequently used in making cement products, but the practice is a bad one and should be avoided whenever possible. Write for circular of our Champion mixer. Foundation Walls The foundation walls below the ground, the lower story walls from the ground up to the window- sills, and the ground floor, should be built of concrete. It would be well to build the entire outside walls of the first story out of concrete, hollow tile or brick, but if this is found to be too expensive the concrete should be run at least 12 inches above the lower floor and 18 inches above the ground, so that all danger from moisture rotting the bottom of the wood construction will be avoided. A concrete foundation should extend down deep enough to avoid all danger of frost, and down to permanent moisture of the ground in climates where alternate wet and dry seasons occur. The base or footing should be not less than 2 feet thick, and the wall may taper to a thickness of 1 foot at the surface of the ground. For frame barns built on level ground the concrete foundation above ground should be 18 inches high, and at least 8 inches thick. If the concrete floor is laid on top of the ground (after sod and loose dirt are removed) its surface should extend about 6 inches above the exterior grade to prevent storm water from running into the barn, and the concrete wall should extend 12 inches above the floor, which will make it about 18 inches above the outside ground surface. Concrete Floors The concrete floor in a room which is to contain live stock should never be lower than the ground level at the door where they enter the room, so that it be necessary for the stock to step down to the floor in place of up to the floor level in entering the barn. Many a good animal has been crippled by stepping down over a door-sill and slipping when her feet struck the smooth floor at a lower elevation. A concrete approach on the outside of the barn leading from the ground level up to the floor level at each doorway will not only prevent stock from stumbling, but will prevent considerable dirt from being tracked into the barn, and will make trucking or driving into the barn much easier. The surface of approaches should be ribbed. Cost The cost of concrete construction in most cases will run from 20 to 30 cents per cubic foot. To give an example of cost of a concrete foundation wall for a frame barn, the foundation wall as shown in the sectional view on page 12 requires a little less than 4 cubic feet of concrete for every foot of its length, and is estimated to cost $1.00 per running foot. If a mixture that is composed of one part cement, two parts sand and four parts gravel (by volume) is used, it would require ', barrel of cement, |\ cubic yard of sand, and i cubic yard of gravel per running foot. This estimated price covers the cost of forms and all false work that is required for its installa- tion, and makes the most economical foundation that can be installed. LOUDEN MACHINERY CO., FAIRFIELD. IOWA Gentlemen: I think your equipment throughout is the best I have ever seen. I do a great deal of traveling about and have examined a great many different stables, but have never seen one I like as well as my own. 1 am so well pleased with it that I am going to get equipment for another stable this fall. I also think your firm is as good as any I have ever dealt with in any line. Yours truly, (Signed) J. M. MOUNT, DAMASCUS, MD. - ftrscisi,f^mi ■■ij=j'.izfc^aiJJhJi. Page Seven 1^ D J|^^ if t) ^::mz f.u -AJ^i ^ f vy «2:!jj^V^^ Locating the Floor Levels - 3-6— + — /-/o" I roraL width , of b/ir/v 34 '- o ^.B...,,,£.#.4"...l?^^^|g||||^^ Fig. 1075. Locating the floor levels is one of the most important things in the equipment of a Dairy Barn. It is im- portant not only in getting the proper drainage of the mangers and gutters, but Fig. 1079. Fig. 1081. Fig. 1080. ilso in getting the proper grades of the floors to make them correspond with the outside approaches. The diagrams, Figs. 1073 and 1076, are sections of half a stable floor with the cows "headed in," and Figs. 1077 and 1078 are the same with the cows "headed out." They represent four different kinds of mangers and four different kinds of gutters, but there is one point in which they are all alike. .AH the litter alley floors on which the cows must travel to and from the stalls are practically on a level with the door sills over which the cows must pass. They should have a little slope toward the gutter so that water will drain into it but otherwise should be level. This is the key in getting the floor levels. As will be seen by the diagrams, the stall floors vary from 5 to 8 inches in height above the litter alley floors, according to the style of gutter used, but the litter alley floors are always to be practically on a level with the stable door sill. It is all right to have a short drop on the outside of the sill, as shown by Figs. 1075 and 1076, to keep the rain from beating in, (one or two inches of a drop will be sufficient), with a short, level outside, (a foot wide), to prevent slipping, but there should never be a raised sill with slanting floors, like that shown by Fig. 1079, for the cows to stumble over and to cause them to slip and fall when the floors are wet. GETTING THE GRADES To prepare for setting up the stalls and putting in the cement, level off the dirt where it is too high and fill in where it is too low, being sure to thoroughly wet down and tamp all filled dirt so it will be completely settled and solid before proceeding further. Probably the best way to get the ground levels is to make a lot of stakes, like that shown in Fig. 1080, with notches on one edge to correspond with the different levels, and set them in rows some twenty feet apart across the stable floor, three or four stakes in a row, equal distances apart; and drive them in until the different notches are the proper levels. Lines being stretched on these stakes to get the different levels will be held securely in place by the notches and will not be liable to slip out of position. If preferred, the notches can be sawed in the slakes after they are driven, care being taken to mark and saw the notches the right distances apart. Marks may also be made on the walls to assist in getting the levels. The ground levels will be six inches below the finished floor levels unless more than six inches of cement is required, or when an extra heavy foundation is wanted for a floor of C ork-Brick or C reosoted Pine Blocks. When the cement is to be six inches thick, the average ground levels for the Litter Alleys will be six inches below the stable door sills, and taking this as a basis, all the other levels can be easily determined for any kind of inslaliation by referring to the height measurements given in Figs. 1073, 1076, 1077 and 1078. In Fig. 1073 the stall floor level is 6 inches above the litter alley level. In Fig. 1076 it is 7 inches above; Fig. 1077, 8 inches above, and in Fig. 1078. 5 inches above. In Fig. 1075, the feed alley level is II inches above the stall floor level and in Fig. 1078 it is 7 inches above. In Figs. 1076 and 1077 the stall floor levels and the feed alley levels are the same, and they may be made the same in the others if preferred. The feed alley floors may also be made as low as the litter alley floor if desired, in which case the cross alley floors will be level. Page Eight \ i:w:ihdj^d»nrni TQIIDEN MACHINERY COBIPAWY DOO^ 0P£fJ'A/O Srj^LL ^LOG/^ i//V£- -2- -4"-^^ ' ^' ro rA I. ^W/DTH Of' BA /?A/ 3B '- O " I - = ="T 1 M '^ -z^'^'^^'T^ --i f^Z^ ^,^u,=,,,= ,,^,,^,,,-w=,,,=,,,^i,3 r!^'0^^' ^, .„ ^ \,^,,^,^,^ ■'■ The cross alley grades from the litter alleys to the feed alleys are shown in the diagrams by dotted lines, marked ' "X Alley Floor Line" in Figs. 1073, 1076 and 1077. They should be given due consideration before determining the kind of installation to select and the ground levels brought to grade. The doors in the feed alleys may be made to correspond with the floors either by raising the door sills and the approaches thereto, or by making the approaches on the inside from the door sills up to the feed alley floor levels, Hke the cross alley grades. When pens for calves, cows or bulls are to occupy a part of the floor the grades will have to be arranged to accommodate them, or the pens located to correspond with the grades. Generally the litter alley grades or something a little higher will be suitable for the pens. Avoid steep inclines in the floors as much as possible. DRAINAGE GRADES — There should be a certain amount of slope lengthwise in both manger and gutter. This is especially desirable in flushing out the manger and where the liquid manure is drained into a cistern through a sewer. Differe.it authorities specify different pitches for the drain. The drop ranges from one to two inches in fifty feet for the mangers. Where the manger is used for watering the stock the incline must not be great enough to make the water run too much to one end. The gutter requires more fall than the manger. Where the row of stalls is 100 feet or more, it is best to have two or more points of drainage, a 50-foot stretch being about all that should be carried into one drain. The slope may be from the center to the ends, or from the ends to a single drain in the center. This will be sufficient to properly wash out the mangers and flush the gutters and keep the stable in a good sanitary condition. The less the incline, consistent with good drainage, the better, because it makes the equipmeiit look better and will be better. The truer the cement work the less the incline required. Sometimes it is best to slope the entire barn floor lengthwise toward the drain. The drainage grades which run lengthwise of the barn being slight, the dirt grades lengthwise may be made nearly level throughout in which case the cement will be a little thicker at some places than at others, varying probably from 6 to 7 inches or from S^i to 6^2 inches. It will pay well, however, to get the dirt grades to conform as nearly as possible to the finished floor grades and in no case should the variation in the dirt grades be so much that the cement will have to be 8 or 9 inches thick in some places and only 3 or 4 inches in other places. VARIATIONS IN MEASUREMENTS— Figs. 1075, 1076, 1077 and 1078 show different widths of mangers, stall floors, feed and litter alleys, and gutters which may be necessary to suit different sizes of cows, different widths of barns and other contingencies. Any of these measures except the mangers, which are standardized, may be further varied to suit requirements, and any of the different styles of gutters may be used with any of the different mangers and vice versa. Also, other styles of gutters may be used but a gutter like Fig. 1 081 , with the litter alley floor level with the stall floor, making a deep ditch over which the cows will generally jump in entering the stall and against the rear side of which the cows feet are liable to catch in leaving the stall, should not be used. A cow giving milk should never be compelled to step across a ditch or over a raised door sill. There is nothing in the claim that the high rear edge of the gutter is necessary to prevent "spattering the wall." To make it effective in preventing "spattering it would have to be made much higher than it is possible to have it. Write for directions for erecting Louden Sanitary Cow Stalls and constructing Louden Standardized Mangers. 4 >-^rI^:ibdJ^dll:MI Page Nine Material For Concrete Floors Per Stall -^- o' -H /7-0"= rOMLWDTH OF3AKN FLOOR PER 7?OW 07= ^rq^ZS H ALLEY r*, */OOZ „ / .4' rj^O^^ ALLEY Amounts of Cement. Sand and Gravel Required for Floor Construction The concrete mangers and gutters form part of the concrete floor work of a dairy barn and are always estimated and installed together with the regular flat slab floors. The irregular outline of the mangers and gutters makes it very hard for the inexperienced to calculate just how much cement, sand and stone is re- quired for the construction, and we have therefore prepared the above cross section: This section represents a floor 17 ft. wide for one row of cow stalls with feed and litter alleys, or just one half of the width of a floor for a barn 36 ft. wide, which is the average width of a dairy barn for two rows of cows. Each of the little squares of this cross section represents a square inch of concrete, and by the table below the floor has been divided into five parts, and the cubical yard contents of each part calculated separately for a panel of floor work 3 ft. -6 in. in length, which is the average length required per stall width. For using a mixture of one part cement, three parts sand, and five parts gravel, which is the proportion most commonly used for this kind of construction, the required amount of material of each kind and for each part of the floor has been calculated separately in fractional numbers. The last three numbers of this table give the total amounts required and show that for each cow stall it will take about 6',| sacks of cement, ,'„ cubic yard of sand, and a scant yard of gravel. For concrete floor we recommend a mixture of one part cement to three parts sand and five parts gravel as shown in the followmg table KIND OF CONCRKTK PROPORTION OF MIXTURE MATERIAI^ CONTAINED IN ONE CUBIC YARD CONCRETE FEED ALLEY ■t IT. WIDE CONTAINS ,26 CU. YD. MATERIAL REQUIRED FOR FLOORS 3 6 WIDE MANGER No 1002 CONTAINS .41 CU YD. .STALL ILCX)R CONTAINS ,324 CU. YD. GurrER No, )4U4 CONTAINS 098 CU. YD. ITTI.K ALLEY 4 IT WIDE CONTAINS .26 CU. YD. TOTAL BARN FLOOR PER COW STALL OF }'6' WIDTH l,JS2 CVS. YDS. i^'J I Ui^ uu 1 2 1 2 1 , 4.6 .52 6 U<^ ; OO , '^- ui/! .72 I 20 ns IH7 I HH .213 V)^ iiCj Ui^ ■ii > > i^(J uJ5 I u6 J5j Ucn OJ fit Ocn uo 1.49 ,16fl 1.233 ,450 ,051 072 I 20 ,135 ,187 6 22 ,702 974 1 LOUDEN MACHINERY C OMPANY The Super Structure This cut illustrates the construction of a favorite type of modern dairy barn which consists of a frame structure, the frame of which is built entirely out of planking not over two inch thickness, and built on a concrete foundation which extends far enough above floor and outside ground level to prevent moisture from coming into contact with the wood sill and frame. The sill should be well bolted on the top of the concrete foundation and the studding, which are 2x6 inch in size for barns of ordinary dimensions, and spaced 16 inches or 24 inches on center, the 24 inch spacing being preferred because any stock length of boards can be nailed thereto without waste. The studding are generally of 14 or 16 ft. lengths and have a doubled 2 inch by 6 inch plate spiked on top, which ties them together, keeps them in a straight line and forms a sill for the rafters. The floor joist of the hay mow floor are made of 2x8 or 2x10 inch joist, as the weight may require, and are spaced the same as the studding so that the end of each joist may be spiked against the side of the studding and at the same time rest on a 2x6 ledger or "ribbon" which is notched one inch into the stud- ding and continues the full length of both side walls with as few joints as possible. Three lengths of joist are generally required to reach from one side of the barn to the other; the ends of the middle tier of joist are spiked and lapped against the inside ends of the two outer tier of joist so that each set of joist form a continuous tie from one side wall to the other, to take up the outward thrust of the roof, and the joist are supported under the lapped ends on a set of girders, built up out of three or four thicknesses of 2x10 or 2x12 inch joist; built up continuously from one end of barn to the other with as few lengths as possible and all end joints broken, so that there will not be more than one end joint at any one place along the length of the barn. Page Eleven LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY &^ These floor beams are supported by posts or preferably iron columns, which are so spaced that they will intersect with the line of stanchions and the partitions between the stalls, and rest on concrete piers built below the concrete floor. As this article is written more particularly for the inexperienced builder, it is well to mention that as soon as the studding are set in place, they should be well braced against wind, and as soon as the joist are in place more braces should be added. These braces should remain until the siding is in place and the roof has been completed, then they may be taken out. In framing the roof one set of rafters is carefully laid out on the hay mow floor or other convenient level platform, and after the exact length of each piece is computed, these are used as patterns and the required number of pieces cut from this one set of patterns. When all rafters, braces, ties and collar beams have been cut, each set of rafters, braces, ties, etc., is spiked together so as to form a complete arch rib which will reach from the plate of one side wall to that of the other. The best method of procedure is to build all these arches laid flat, one on top of the other, on the building, the ends of each arch (the heels of lower rafters) resting on the wall plates at the point where it is to be secured after it is raised to a vertical position. After all of the arches are completed the end arch is hoisted up to a vertical line, perfectly plumbed, well spiked into place, and well braced, a block and rope are hooked to the collar beam (the top horizontal beam to which hay track is fastened) of the arch that is in place, with this the next arch is hoisted, plumbed, and nailed in place and this method is continued until all are in place. Each arch is nailed to several sheathing boards that are used as guides and ties to secure the arches as soon as they are raised, and each arch is braced to the studding as soon as set in place. These arches can be raised and set in place by three or four men, while with the old method of heavy purlin and post construction, ten or fifteen may be necessary to help hoist the heavy frame. This type of roof has the advan- tage of requiring less material and labor than the heavy timber roof; is just as strong and forms a mow without any obstruction. We find your goods unexpectedly satisfactory. The hay track and carrier works like a charm and the hanger and barn door tracks are past reproach. Thanking you for I all past favors, 1 remain Yours respectfully H. 1. Armour Rising Sun, Md j Page Twelve 4 /\J0.3^04- DLTAIL or nOOR CONSWUCTION TYPICAL CW55 XCT/ON d J6 WOT bARN lOaXN MACHINERY CO Tsnsssn^ssESSM ■na^ESDOsiaQ LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Construction of Plank Trusses While we advocate the use of the "braced rafter" construction for gambrel roof barns because it is economy, some may prefer constructing their barn with the plank truss method by framing trusses out of heavy plank and spacing them 14 or 16 feet apart for supporting purlin beams which in turn will support the individual rafters. This truss does not require any timber over 24 feet long. While this truss has been designed to meet requirements in the most economical way, a barn roof with this construction requires 1240 feet of lumber for one truss and roof framing it carries, if trusses are spaced 16 feet apart. The "braced rafter" construction illustrated on page II requires 100 feet less lumber, and lumber which is less expensive per thousand feet than that required for the trusses. 4^-^ f < r<^ ; ihd J^j tnrf rg t^ii ai j^^.^^^jaij Eia . . Page Thirteen LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY ■b i. f ria.A \ -30-- . J, jj Frame Construction The steady increase in the price of lumber and building materials has necessitated a closer calcula- tion of their strength. Economy prescribes that each piece shall be only as large as needed to safely withstand the strains to which it will be subject, and so placed that it will be the strongest. In the largest and best barns built to-day you will seldom see timber thicker than two inches. This is partly due to small dealers carrying a limited assortment of sizes, and to a greater extent to the present day calculations of architects. Most modern barns are built with self-supporting roofs, as this type of construction eliminates heavy beams and posts and reduces cost. This type of roof resembles the hull of a boat turned upside down, and consists of built up jilank arches reinforced with splice-braces at angles, spanning from one side wall to the other. This roof usually has four surfaces, the lower two being steep and the upper ones about quarter pitch. Many make the mistake of calling this type a "hip-roof." The proper name is "gam- brel " and it is also known as "curb roof" and "mill roof." Doors Sliding doors have many advantages over those attached by ordinary hinges. If properly built with a beveled check rail around the edges, they can be made practically air tight, and at the same time work free and loose as soon as opened. Doors built up out of matched flooring are very strong, and if made double thickness with one thickness running at right angles to the other, will prevent warping, and if building paper is placed between the two thicknesses it will make a well insulated surface. Care must be taken in the selection of hangers and track. Choose a track that will not sag, hold water, or become clogged by birds' nests, snow, ice, etc. See page 89. A hanger with a hinge is best, as cattle can not tear your door down when it is fitted with this kind. Double trolleys run smoother and the roller bearing wheels make operation easy. Slidmg doors take up less space and can not blow open or shut. Doors should be provided with latches or other fastening device that will automatically fasten the door when it is closed, and they should be so con- structed that the stock can not open them by push- ing or rubbing with their horns. Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield, Iowa. Gentlemen; The Feed Carrier not now get along witlioul il. Pngc Fourteen \ all I could ask for. I use il to convey ensilage from silo to cow barn and could It il u great time and labor saver wliicli means much now-a-days to the farmer. Respcclfully, JAMES P. SFPLY. Kenney. 111. .liWilkJJ^JWmWI ■ .lJ=#-^rhJ 21^ rOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY XI //z^■J^^7e, ^)ZCT/OA/ or Doo/^ 3 ■•= /ATT /^ "Jf/Z/T. "DOTFO/^ /^/Z or zpoo/pj DITTA/l Or^W/A/G DOO/?^ \c/\^IMC^ L 1 1 ■0 1 1 SO/Oj^D/r^O 1 run s/zn: d^77]/l or c//^c/< /^A/L c/ffrA- TF/l/l DOOR. CAS J A/ c^ ,S<3<7/PZ7//V<^ C/13/A/g \. <3rCT/0/^ THRU Z^OR ^ ^ _ ^ ■ ^ ^[^ n±jtn DiPnrr/OA/ door opi/^s -DOO^ /J yi ^-^fi ^^'^' /A/J/D£ OfJ/y^ — " JAM3 '•01/TJ.3TOT' — 3/LL. /{POT^/^ /VO/^/^NTAL - ^~0"(r^^7r/R3 O' Jli/W/yVG I .1;M!lbd^.fcJII:yjWl ^_ Page Seventeen LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPABIY Tables of Strength of Materials Nominal Size Inches External Diameter Inches Thickness Inches Weight per foot Area of Section Safe Load in Pounds for Cas-pipe Length in Feet Columnt 7 8 1 9 10 12 14 CO a I IJ 1.'. 2" 2! 3" 3-: 4 4J 5" 6 7 8 1.05 1.31 1.666 1.875 2.375 2.875 3.3 4. 4.5 5. 5.563 6.625 7.625 8.625 .113 .134 .140 .145 .154 .204 .217 .226 .237 .247 .259 .280 .301 .322 1.13 1.67 2.26 2.69 3.67 5.77 7.55 9.05 10.73 12.49 14.56 18.77 23.41 28.35 .424 .562 .846 .983 1.29 1.59 2.26 2.59 3.33 3.73 4.17 5.57 7.18 8.14 806 2181 4549 6391 9314 12537 19165 22860 30103 34502 38906 54055 70938 81278 1 1 z 1600 1 3740 3183 3300 5136 8591 7914 11800 11020 18280 17500 22040 21320 28900 28220 33560 32660 37520 37520 50120 30120 64620 64620 73260 73260 4448 7193 10420 16700 20300 27300 31760 36320 50120 64620 73260 '^ u o 15040 18780 25440 29800 34620 48780 64620 73260 u 17240 23360 27960 32520 46640 62640 73260 Louden barn equipment is an economy for the owner of three cows and ten acres of land, as well as for the owner of three hundred cows and a thousand acres of land. The percentage of labor saved is the same. Louden equipment is an economy for any farm that is run on a business babis. Louden barn equipment is just as great an advantage to the man who has an old barn that he wants to remodel or equip, as it is to the man who is building a barn for which he wants every possible convenience. In this little book we but briefly men- tion, in a general way, the benefits of only a few of our products. We merely wish to give you an idea of our business and we want to send you free special catalogs on any or all the lines in which you are interested. Conscientious advice, the result of 48 years of barn equipment manufacturing experience is at your service. TABLE 1. Safe Load in Pounds Uniformly Distributed for Yellow Pine Beams Supported at Both Ends. SIZE OF BEAM Span 2x6 2x8 2x10 2x12 2x14 2x16 " 2x18 Feet Dressed to the folio wing sizes l«x5:J 1714 nx7i 304/ 15x9| ^488" ifxin 7163 Uxi3;. 9872 12x13} 14020 13xl7J 6 17846 8 1285 2285 3666 5372 7404 10515 13398 10 1028 1828 2933 4298 5923 8412 10718 12 857 1523 2444 3582 4936 7010 8932 14 734 1306 2093 3070 4231 6008 7656 16 642 1142 1833 2686 5702 3236 6699 18 1016 1629 2388 3291 4505 5954 20 914 1466 2149 2961 4206 5359 22 1333 1222 1954 1791 2692 2469 3823 3505 4872 24 4466 26 1633 2278 3235 4122 28 1535 2115 1974 1851 3804 2804 2628 3828 30 3572 32 3349 Note: — The above loads are calculated for a fiber stress of 1,800 pounds per square inch, safety factor 4. Mod- ulus of rupture 7,200 pounds per square inch. Loads above heavy horizontal lines calculated for both strength and stiffness. Loads below heavy horizontal lines are for strength only and will deflect more than one thirtieth of an inch per foot of span and should not be used with plastered ceilings. Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield, Iowa. Gentlemen: I have been using your equipment in my certified dairy barn for about six months and have put it to the test every way we knew how. but find everything stands the test and should last a lifetime. Every part of the equipment is perfectly satisfactory and comes up to the standard that every one should expect when he is buying the best. I find that I can keep a herd of cows in shape to produce certified milk cheaper with the Louden equipment than I could keep cows in the old fashioned way for producing the cheapest grade of market milk. I might slate that I am in the dairy business for the dollar. My equipment ran into four figures and I count it the best spent money I put into my dairy barn. BLAIR B. HILEMAN. Prop.. Pleasant Valley Stock Farm. Altoona. Pa. Page Eighteen ~F AIRFIE L P. IOWA '^ ^■j. V' ** ^^ Some of the Fundamentals of Ventilation Ventilation may be divided into two classes — forced and natural. Forced ventilation requires blowers to force the air in or exhaust fans to draw the air out of the place to be ventilated. Forced ventilation is used in mines and sometimes in large buildings, but on account of its expense it is not adapted to ordinary dwelling houses or farm build- ings. Natural ventilation depends upon natural laws, and all it requires is the arrangement of the building to permit the free operation of those natural laws. A still further division might be made of warm and cold weather ventilation, because each has its special requirements. Warm weather ventilation is easy. About all that is necessary is to open the building so the natural currents of air will pass through. The Louden Ventilating Windows have been particularly designed for warm weather ventilation, and meet all requirements. They should be used when the temperature outside becomes as warm or warmer than the air in the barn. In cold weather it is necessary to preserve, as far as possible, the warmth of the building, and to do this and at the same time secure efficient ventilation is the problem. The only absolutely perfect ventilation is out of doors where there are no walls or ceilings to interfere with the free movements of the air. To overcome the interference of walls and ceilings, which are necessary to preserve the warmth of the building in cold weather, and secure the largest amount of ventilation obtainable under the circumstances, it is necessary that certain requirements be strictly complied with. To better understand these requirements it will be well to briefly consider the underlying principles governing air currents, and upon which ventilation is founded. Like everything else in nature, it is extremely simple when we once understand it, but extremely mystifying when we do not understand it. The "wind bloweth where it listeth" may seem to convey the idea that it is irresponsible or not subject to any definite rules of action, and yet there is nothing that is more instantaneously responsive to natural laws. Heat and cold are the impelling forces behind every current of air. Heat expands and cold contracts air, as well as other things. The warm expanded air will be lighter than an equal volume of cold contracted air, and like the light boy on the teeter board, it will go up, while the cold air, like the heavy boy, will go down. The teeter board, however, is a clumsy illustration of the extremely mobile movements of the air currents. That cold air descends and rushes in to displace the heated air which ascends or is forced up, tells the story of all the air currents which have ever fanned the face of the earth, from the slightest zephyr to the mightiest tornado. It is the key-note of all forms of ventilation. Out of doors every discernible current of air, and also those not discernible, are simply never ending efforts of nature to preserve a uniform temperature. Out of doors the warmest place is at the ground, and as you go up the air becomes imperceptibly cooler until several miles high it becomes as cold as an Arctic winter, in warm as well as cold weather. This condition is natural, and is necessary to the continual purification of the air. Indoors the order is largely reversed. In a room having a stove and tight ceiling it is the warmest at the ceiling and the coldest at the floor. Sometimes the difference in temperature is as much as 20 degrees. Under such conditions, with the impurities of respiration and the carbonic acid gas generated by the stove retained in the room, the wonder is that colds and tuberculosis are not more frequent. The problem is to preserve the warmth of the room in winter and at the same time to keep the air fairly pure and about as warm at the feet as at the head as it is out of doors and should be indoors. Many systems of ventilation have been designed and quite a number give very good results. The most popular at the present time is the "King System" designed by Prof. F. H. King. This system is composed of air flues arranged according to the following order: The King System Fresh air flues are provided in the side walls; starting just high enough above the ground to keep snow from closing them up, they have intakes protected by a wire mesh to keep out birds and the flues run up to the ceiling to a damper located so the fresh air will enter the barn at the ceiling and always in front of the cows' heads. Foul air flues should start on the inside near the floor and end in a flue above the roof. The air outside being colder and heavier than the air in the room, it will tend to rush in and replace the warmer and lighter air of the room, which will be forced through the outlets to mingle with the cold air above the roof. The pure cold air coming in at the ceiling will mingle with the warmest air in the room, and will be warmed to a considerable extent before reaching the floor. By this means the air of the room will be purified but will not be chilled as much as it would be if it was admitted through an open door or window. It may seem that on this arrangement there is a reversal of the natural law that cold air descends and heated air rises, but it is only apparent, or, in other words, going a short distance backwards to get around an obstacle and reach the desired end. Page Nineteen LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY • ii"^W5BKm*"^?^*i^ It is well known that water will rise in the short end of a siphon, apparently in opposition to the laws of gravitation, to go a further distance down in the long end of the siphon. These ventilating flues are constructed on the principle of an inverted siphon. The cold air will rise a short distance up to go a longer distance down, and the warm air will go a short distance down to get a greater distance up. The principle is the same as the teeter board, which sends the light boy up, apparently in violation of the laws of gravity, in order that the heavy boy may go down in obedience to the same law. This arrangement to work successfully must be right in every respect. No person would go back around-about to get to a place if he could go straight ahead. The cold air will not go up in a flue to get in a building if it can get in below through an open door or window, or through cracks in the siding. Neither will the warm air go down near the floor to get out of the building if it can get out through the ceiling or through openings in the upper parts of the wall. Any cracks or crevices in the flues will also be detrimental. It is an old and a true saying that "A fountain will never rise higher than its head," but it is equally true that it will never rise that high unless compelled to do so. The air will never pass through these ventilating flues if there are more direct ways for it to go. There should be no abrupt shoulders or corners in the flues to obstruct the passage of the air, and the air should be enough warmer and lighter in the building than outside to cause it to travel the round-about way through the ventilating flues. When the temperature inside and out is about the same, this system of ventilation will not work, because there is not enough difference in the weight of the inside and outside air to force the round-about passage it has to take. In dairy barns where no artificial heat is used and where the difference in temperature will not be so great, it is even more important to have every- thing just right. Especial care should be taken to have the barn built as close and as warm as possible, to make these ventilating flues work to the best advantage. If the lower parts of the outlet flues were made of sheet iron so there would be no danger ConlinueJ on Page Twenly-one Table of Fresh Air Supply and Ventilation Prof. F. H. King has computed the amount of pure air which must be breathed to supply the oxygen needed by different animals, as shown in the following table, and we have added the last two columns, which show the area of vent flues that are required per head for a current of air flowing through the vent flues at the rate of 295 feet per minute, and 200 feet per minute, respectively. If the vent flue is less than 30 feet in height, column 7 should be used, and if over 30 feet high, column 6 may be used: 1 2 3 1 4 5 6 " 7 Cubic ft. of A in 24 h< r Breathed Pounds of Oxygen Consumed in 24 hours Cu. ft. Air Per Head Flue Area Per Head Air Flowing 295 ft. per min. Inches Flue Area Per Head Air Flowing Per 1000 lbs. Animal wt. Per Head Per 1000 lbs. Animal wt. Per Head 200 ft. per min. Inches Man 2833 3401 2804 3753 7260 9667 425 3401 2804 1103 726 29 12.207 13.272 11.04 29.698 29.314 2^.84 1.831 13.272 11.04 4.456 2.931 .07S 537 4296 3542 1392 917 S5 4.22 34.84 28.80 11.38 8.35 .28 6.43 Horse 51.55 42.48 13.12 Sheep Hen 10.94 .43 Table of Area and Size for Vent Flues in Inches The following table shows the area and size of vent flues required for various kinds and number of stock, calculated with the air in the vent flues flowing 200 feet per minute: KIND OF STOCK MAN HORSE COW SWINE SHEEP HEN Arc* Size Area Sin 1 Area Size Area Sin Area Sin Area Sin 1 8 2x 4 54 6x 9 44 4x11 16 4x4 12 3x 4 1 t X t 2 14 2x 7 108 9x 12 88 8x11 27 3x9 22 2x11 1 1 X 1 3 20 4x 5 156 12x 13 128 8x 16 40 5x8 33 3x11 1 x2 4 27 3 X 9 216 12x 18 170 10 x 17 54 , 6x9 44 4x11 1 x2 5 32 4x 8 264 12x22 216 12x18 66 6x II 55 5x II 1 X 3 6 40 5x 8 312 12x26 164 12 x22 60 8x 10 66 6x II 1 X 3 7 45 5x 9 360 12x30 300 12x25 92 8x 12 77 7x II 1 x3 8 54 6x 9 420 12 X 35 352 16x22 108 9x 12 88 8x11 2x2 9 60 6x 10 468 12 X 39 384 16x24 120 lOx 12 99 9x11 2x2 10 64 6x 8 516 fa, 12x43 416 16x26 132 1 II X 12 110 lOx II 2x3 iwT^rrwmt ' ? 334 371 50 1 ; 1 344 382 Add 5 feet to height indicated, to allow (or settling of silage. For further information cee page 53 Page Twenty-four + s^QiBainzs i.ijj^.-kjy.iJ^bJ. A Louden Equipped Government Barn The Haskell Institute Dairy Barn at Lawrence, Kansas is one of many government Indian institute barns that are Louden equipped, and is but one of hundreds of government and state barns that use Louden equipment. In the Haskell Dairy Barn are used Louden Litter and Feed carriers, Calf, Cow, and Bull pens, together with 81 Louden stalls. The stalls are of the Go- Right type set in three rows of 27 each. All of the stalls in one section are hooked up with one lever and work fine. The whole row can be thrown with a slight push on the lever. The following letter from Mr. MacArthur, dairyman at Haskell Institute, to Mr. H. P. Harbison, a Kansas City repre- sentative of Louden Machinery Company, indicates the degree of satisfaction the equipment is giving: Louden Bull Pens in Haskell Institute Dairy Barn DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR United States Indian Service Haskell Institute Lawrence, Kansas, May 6, 1914. Mr. H. P. Harbison, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Sir: I rather think that 1 promised to write you when the Louden equipment was installed in our dairy barn and let you know my opinion of your equipment after it was put to the test with inex- perienced help. Of course you know the Indian boys have had no training and were necessarily inexperienced, which together with a herd of young cows, would be very trying regarding strength and utility. I will confess that I had my fears that our Indian boys would be too reckless and careless and therefore cause considerable amount of breakage with such a complete equipment, for you know that we purchased the latest and most up-to-date that you manufacture, but to my surprise the hard strain of winter use, with 123 head of cattle there is not the least repair needed in stanchions, bull, cow, or calf pens. You remember we hung up some ninety-six feet of sure stop to pull with one lever, which you were afraid would work too hard. It works easily and the boys handle it with one hand. The high curb with cut-out for stanchions is great from a stand- point of economy, as the cows can't possibly waste their feed by throwing it under their feet. You remember we arranged to water the stock in the cement mangers during stormy weather, which arrangement is very satis- factory, as we lift the partitions between cows, sweep out mangers thoroughly, and turn in water until all finish drinking. The dairy barn at Haskell is now a place of interest to visitors who constantly pass through the institution and remarks of praise regarding the Louden equipment are constantly overheard. Continued bollom next 'page. Stalls, Stanchions and Manger Divisions Haskell Institute Dairy Barn + .lEBanEl^aBEQ! ■»lJ=y.lrfcJ.^ Page Twenty-five LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY CUT -SHOWING COPPnCT CONSTRUCTION FO^ BA5CMENT 5ARN5 WI^ONG WAY CORRECT i^AY Two Methods of Building a Bank Barn Modern Sanitary Bank Barns The ordinary, old-fashioned stable under a bank barn was damp and warm when filled with animals in the winter time and it was damp and cool in summer. The warmth and coolness were agreeable, but disease lurked in both conditions of the stable atmosphere. Since investigators have been looking into the germ troubles that domestic animals suffer from, attention has been directed to the objectionable features of these old-fashioned stable dungeons. Anarchist germs prefer darkness to light. They thrive when the atmosphere is moisture laden. If the moisture comes from the breath of animals, they thrive all the better; it seems to act as a culture medium, to propagate the most undesirable of all cattle disease germs. Sunshine and fresh air are the two principle preventatives. In this illustration the architect shows how to build a bank barn on sanitary princi- ples — the bank is kept back away from the barn wall, and the upper floor is reached by a bridge. Bank barns are not necessarily objectionable. Usually, they are built on an elevation where drain- age may be maintained in spite cf the usual barn- yard proclivities to get muddy and stay muddy. Besides offering better sanitary conditions, this plan provides the best possible means for establishing warm winter corrals having gates and passage-ways leading all the way around the stable section of the barn. In grading the side of the bank, the earth removed to make this passage-way may be dumped in scraper loads to fill the pot holes and to grade up the corrals, lanes, etc. 1 will arrange to get you some fine views soon. We have to finish our spring cleaning and the cattle are not entirely shed off yet, but just a little later we will be ready to give you some views you will appreciate. Very respectfully, Donald MacArthur, Dairyman. Uncle Sam has been testing out Louden equipment for many years, and the fact that it is specified for most government buildings is one of the strongest recommendations that can be given to the equipment. Write for names of Louden equipped barns in your vicinity. '^!^ \\v^ i^ Louden Calf Fens in llaskcll Institute Dairy Barn Page Twenty-six LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 1840 — For Dairy Barn Description This barn is 126 ft. wide by 140 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 9^2 ft- high, the hay mow is 22 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire f^oor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $9800.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1840 $95 00 Louden Manger and Manger Divisions How comfortable the cows look, each eating her apportioned feed without interference from her neighbor, or without straining herself to get some of her neighbor's feed. The shape of the manger makes the feed roll down close to the cow so she will not have to strain to get it as she would if a flat-bot- tomed manger was used. Louden Steel Mangers, also Louden Cement Man- gers and Manger Divisions have been adopted by dairy authorities the world over as being the most lasting, convenient and sanitary, and the easiest constructed or installed. Send for spe- cial catalogs. 4 ajsaosmaaaf Page Twenty-seven LOUD EN MACHINERY C OMPANY Design 2603 For 80 Cows JTiS-OL. ^ G - OTT^E n- ■jl/ttsr alley- I Ml: I \4\0\.\C\ O\^:\5\Ti(^^)^\5\ iU. I \4\0\ \c\oU'Ht\a\i}^lH \\\ I Ml iTl I ^^^AN&na-^ ^r^DJTT S^ ■JUTTEf^ ^-ALLErY-i-. PtM M 11: Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by I 73 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 4 ft. above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 10 ft. high. The lower story is 9^-) ft. high, the hay mow is 19 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 3 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 32 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $6000.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2603 $15,00 Louden Litter Carriers The Louden Litter Carrier is a great time and labor saver. With a Louden Litter Carrier, barn cleaning is made easy and pleasant work. Every farm needs this equipment. Manure may be taken directly from the stalls to the spreader or manure pit with but one handling and in half the time necessary by the old-fashioned method. F^oadcd cars may be raised and lowered to any height by a small boy, and run out and emptied anywhere desired. Write today for information and catalogs and lessen your winter barn work. Louden Carriers are made in several styles both for Steel and Wire Track. detailed different Page Twenty-eight Design 1559 For 66 Cows Description This barn is 34 ft. wide by 130 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 8 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high. The ridge of roof is 22 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3090.00. For feeding and milking dairy cows this barn will be found a labor saver because it is compact and all cows face one center feeding alley, which runs the full length of the barn and contains a carrier-track that can be run to a silo and the milk can be taken to the milk house by the litter carrier-track extending out of the end doors of each litter alley. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design ISSS^-ipkQQ Louden Feed Carriers A Louden Feed Carrier is relief from the bucket, the wheelbarrow and the bushel basket, and the waste resulting from those old-fashioned methods of handling feed. The Louden Feed Carrier is a necessity on any farm where a dozen or more head of stock are to be fed. A boy of ten years can operate the carrier from feed bin or silo to mangers or feed racks, and do the work with less effort than it takes you to run a loaded wheelbarrow. Write us, giving outline of your feeding conditions, and we will gladly furnish estimates free. Louden Feed Carriers are made in many styles. Louden Machinery Co., Fairfield, Iowa Dear Sirs: If I could not get another carrier I would not take four times what it cost me substantial carrier I ever saw. I have had it in use over a year. Yours truly, Isaac H. Cass, Wyanet, It is the best and most 111. ^snaanBsinnsat Page Twenty-nine LOUDEN MACHINERY C OMPANY Design 2075 For 50 Cows Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 136 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 25 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in I he hay mow are 8 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 38 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3300.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2075 $g^00 Dairy farmers are learning the value of cow stable manure, and they are making so much belter use of it than they ever did before that manure conveniences around the stable are greatly appreciated. A good stable with a manure carrier and a manure spreader properly handled will increase the grain yield of the farm each year, while the dairy is paying all the expenses of running the farm. We don't really own our land until we have it well fenced. We don't really own our own live slock until we have proper buildings lo house them. Saving the waste makes the profit. A farm barn is a farm factory. Waste material is a by-product in disguise. What was formerly waste is now worked into salable merchandise. Farm buildings are farm factories. The soil produces the raw materials which are taken to the farm shops and made into high-priced butler, beef, mutton, and pork. Formerly beef catllc were raised on the open range. It required three or four years to produce beef steers, because they were left out in the cold to hustle for themselves all winter. The grass was partly covered with snow and occasionally the water was frozen so the animals could neither eat nor drink for days at a time. Mortality among range cattle often reached such figures as 30 per cent, and the ones to survive the winter were lighter in the spring than they were in the fall. Gentlemen: Your Louden liquipment inslalled in our cow barn is eminently satisfactory. The litter carrier has proven a time-saver beyond our expectations. Sincerely yours, J. R. Walton, Supt., Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri. Higginsville. Mo. Page Thirty LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2563 — For 50 Cows .|^L.._... — r ■—/■■' ! 1 ( 'i 1 M 1 W k*"t M'4'-t5 1 1 1 1 1' 1 r 1 1 '5^ ■';. » ::}■•■!-- hn III 1 H l^rfgw^kl 1 M 1 1 ;i^ -" -f-— ^,r-,Ai.-e_ -■ -i:-„ — ^ — — ......... :r:««,-A Description This barn is 32 ft. wide by 100 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 1 8 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 20 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertic- al sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 33 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construc- tion, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. When to Cut the Ensilage This cost is estimated to be $3100.00 Water and Dry Matter in Corn at Different Periods Corn Date of cutting Stage of growth per acre July 30— Fully tasseled 9.0 August 9— Fully silked 12.9 August 21 — Kernels watery to full milk 16.3 September 7 — Kernels glazing 16.1 September 23 — Ripe 14.2 In the last column is shown the dry matter per acre in corn at different stages. When the corn is fully tasseled. it contains but eight-tenths of a ton of dry matter per acre, or only one-fifth what it contains when fully ripe. When in the milk it contains nearly three times as much dry matter as when fully tasseled. Only seventeen days were occupied in passing from the milk to the glazing stage, yet in this time there was an increase in the dry matter of 1.3 tons per acre. This shows the great advantage of letting the corn stand until the kernels are glazed. If your neighbor is going to build tell him about this book — and do both him and us a good turn. ^ater Dry per matter acre per acre 8.2 8 11.3 15 14.0 2 3 12.5 3 6 10.2 4 Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2563 $£00 Page Thirty-one LOUDE N MACHINERY C OMPANY Design 1670 — For 50 Cows SMELTED Sf1£D -TTE-D ALti^V ■' 1 ^Ls! \c\o\J\ 1 \5\t\a\l\l^\ I I I I I I M 1; LITTCQ ALLEV kW^ \Cp\W\ 1 \S\T)AV-'L\^\ 1 1 M 1 I 1 1 1 FEEO ALLEV :; r: Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 138 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are il4 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 23 ft. high from floor to hay carrier- track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $4224.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1670 $6,00 The shelter shed at the end of this barn has a southeast exposure and for northern climates is a feature that should not be overlooked. This gives the cattle a place to exercise under cover in bad weather. The vent flues projecting on the outside of the walls in place of inside gives the feed alleys a smooth wall without projections. Louden Machinery Company, Fairfield. Iowa Dear Sirs: Your outfit is Kiving perfect satisfaction and will last. I believe, as long as the cement floor in which it is set. I value this outfit lughly. At the present lime no one will question the fact that the more comfort given the cow the more milk she will give, but 1 think there are few that realize that it effects the test even to perhap.^ a greater degree. Stable your cows in a cold, unventilated. poorly lighted barn with the rigid stanchions for a winter, and the next winter give them swinging stanchions, the proper amount of light, air, and protection from the cold, and it will be found there will be a big difference in the test. Yours very truly. Ora P. Tavlor, Elkhorn. Wis. Page Thirty-two ■ p rjiw :! kjbi^UiliUmf LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY ^SJif '- L/T-rcR - ^t-Let^- - - - ^- - — 1 1 1 1 P^ |cpM p|7}A|^|.|5| 1 1 ]: 1 1 1 1-1 1 - - f:: ! I kl I m"uX| I^M^kkkl I I I I I I llJl I' UgfJ:^j5aJ I I ' _ J __:"Vjgg,^.^^ ,_,,,■ l„ U^^^'i]llL. PIA/V or DAIRY EMM rOP S) COU5 AND 6 BOX STALLS Design 2539 — For 50 Cows and 6 Box Stalls Description This barn is 40 ft. wide by 130 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 8 ft. high. The story is 9} 2 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 20 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construc- tion, and the entire floor of the barn is of con- crete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear span without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2750.00. In this particular stable the ceiling is self-supporting. A loft over a stable like this is not used for any purpose except as an air space, and the air is changed by having a window in each gable. The silos are placed between the stable and storage barn, with room for a feed carrier to pass through; this carrier track extends the whole length of the cow stable and runs far enough into the storage barn to load the litter carrier. In a modern stable like this, it is possible to work in a great many conveniences that the men will appreciate when doirig the work. Arrangements to save steps and hand labor a good many times a day will count up during the year. Average Periods of Gestation The period of gestation in animals varies considerably, but the following is an average period based on a long series of observations: Ass 12 months Mare 1 1 months Cow 9 months Sheep 5 months Goat 5 months Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2539 $C 00 Pig 332 months Bitch 9 weeks Cat 8 weeks Rabbit 30 days Guinea pig 65 days Mattoon. 111.. May 5. 1913. The cows can lie down Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield. Iowa. Gentlemen : Your stanchions are the greatest thing to tie cows with that ever was manufactured comfortably when tied with them and stand more quietly while being milked. As to strength. 1 have tied cows that weighed up to 1 300 lbs. that had never been tied, and they certainly gave them a thorough test. Have used them 2 years and have had no expense whatever. Yours very truly. H. F. Hoferkamp. i a^CIEi^a!EE9l ■»i^=j^irfcjaij.'hj-- Page Thirty-three f^OUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY 2^v\c~' r/MRfiK i, n. IONS A ^^ j,/^ Design 2561 For 40 Cows The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2880.00. Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 98 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 7 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2561 $|- qQ A good farm deserves good buildings. Any farm is good that provides a living for the family. Comfortable buildings help to make a poor farm good and a good farm better. Even the land that has been ruined and "turned out to the Lord" may be brought back to life by the aid of live stock; but first you must have buildings and fences to make the live stock comfortable. Each farm is shy a building or two, and most farms need more fencing. Fences for range, health and pasture; barns and stables for storage and winter feeding. Economy in business often means spending money for necessary improvements. If animals require all their feed to keep them alive and warm, then the grain is being burned for fuel, while the animals are marking time. Time may not be much of an object to the animal, but it is to the owner. Page Thirty-foui 4 ^zi'*:iVi*J^mzrm9 LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1653 — For 40 Cows -£-y^Ffie — Att.^f'- - rgnrrn 1 1 p ^^TT i I fi r^£0 ALLZY MANCrEn j^^nm I ^\ VU^A I -L4t^SB — AL-l^V- Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 82 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 12 inches above the J ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 8' 2 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 7 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2700.00. LUG Special attention has been given to the proper distribution of windows for light, location of doors for convenience and location of ventilation flues for keeping the barn sweet and sanitary at all times The hay mow has a capacity of about 90 tons and. has a hay chute located at one end so hay can be thrown down into the end of feeding alley. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1653 $5.00 Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield. Iowa Dear Sirs: It is with pleasure I am informing you of the entire satisfaction the Louden Stanchions are giving us with our milch cows. They are filling a long felt want, both in comfort for the cows and convenience at feeding same; also in tying them up evenings much time is saved. They eat and lie down with perfect ease. Very respectfully G. A. BROOK, Prop. Sunny Slope Herd of Hampshire Swine, Washington, Iowa '•^<^:i>««**»i:yj^l ■.ij=y^irfcdaiJJhJi. Page Thirty-five LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1619 For 30 Cows Description This barn is 34 ft. wide by 86 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 18 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 23 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 9 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction, and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2800.00. Besides stalls for thirty cows, this barn has three large pens, one for seven calves, one for bull, and one for cow or young stock. These pens extend from the center feed alley to the outside walls which makes them a good size. The hay chute can be enclosed with door to make it dust proof. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1619 tj- qq Louden Machinery Comf>any, Fairfield. Iowa. Gentlemen: , n j l- The Louden goods used by the Iowa State College, con.sisting of litter carriers, hay tools, stalls and stanchions, have proven to be very satisfactory and have proven to be all that you claim tor them. We have used more or less of your equipment for many years and find that the cost of repairs has been exceedingly low. . Trusting this may be of interest to you. we are Very truly yours. Department of Agricultural Lngineermg. By J. B. Davidson. Professor of Agricultural Lngineenng. Iowa State College, Ames. Iowa. Page Thirty-»ix f Li;w;ihj^:«fcdn:Wi ■ .lJ=y-lrhJ? LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY r Design 2419— For 30 Cows rCED ALLEY 1 l/^ 1 C|o|ti/tJ^|7-|A|/L|^|^ 1 1 1 23KIVE.WAy \'^ \CyO\W^^\r\A\L\L\^\ 1 1 1 /*MACz:^ rE.^D ALLEY Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 80 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 36 inches above the floor, and the frame sidewalls are 6J^2 ft- high. The story is 9 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 22 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the barn is of concrete con- struction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear span without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1950.00. Price of Complete working , , . , , 111 11 ■ J • plans and specifications In this plan the cows are headed out, and tfiere is a driveway T Desiffn 2419 ^lWf ^_ Page Thirty-seven M^M^^^^m Design 1671 — For 24 Cows Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 90 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above ~l the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. ' The lower story is 8 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the ver- tical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2880.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1671 $C 00 The shelter shed makes a good place to load manure into spreader and for feeding fodder and other roughage from a rack along the wall, and gives good exercise and shelter room for stock in bad weather. If it is desired to feed beef cattle in connection with the dairy stock, this shelter shed can be built larger and used for beef feeding by extending the barn longer and dropping the hay direct from mow, through trap doors into feed racks in the feeding room. In this way this same room could be used for dry dairy stock or for implement or wagon storage or for a sheep fold. Page Thirty-eight 'J;H;i»^-h^'IiKyi ■ .l^JlrfcjaiJg LOUDE N MACHINERY COM PANY Design 1657 — For 22 Cows Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 60 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 10 ft. above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 8 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 25 feet high, from floor to hay carrier track, the verti- cal sidewalls in the hay mow are 7 ft. high and the ridge of roof is 38 ft. above the ground. The basement wall is of stone construction and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete con- struction. The barn above the basement is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2200.00. This barn has a center driveway running the full length of it with a door at both ends wide enough to admit a manure spreader. There is a hay chute over each feed alley and a feed carrier track running to the silo. Price for Complete work- ing plans and specifi- cations of Design 1657 $5^00 Dear Sirs: Will say in reference to the Louden Stanchions that they have given perfect satisfaction. Would not do without them for twice what they cost. Respectfully, W. A. McKENZIE. SpringviUe, Utah SEESSBBSBSSmi , _4^_ Page Thirty-nine LOUDE N MACHINERY COM PANY -V, ,C^ K/MPKIKl.D. IOWA ^ , ,^ Design 1675 — For 20 Cows While the dairy barn should be located where it will be most convenient for the handling of slock, feed, litter, and milk, it should also be arranged to suit its location. This barn suits a certain location and makes a good design where the silo is on the same end as the entrance for litter carrier and where milk and hay is handled at the other end. Description This barn is 34 ft. wide by 72 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 2 I ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 3 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 34 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction The barn above the foundation is of plank frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2260.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1675 $5,00 Gentlemen: The Louden Stanchions thai we purchased from you for our new certified dairy cow barns are a great success. They are neat and handy in their working and fill the requirements in every respect. We have frequent occasion to recommend them strongly to others who arc constructing up-to-date dairy buildings, and certainly would buy them again in equipping dairy buildings. Yours very truly. li. L. Thompson. Pres., Clover Hill Farms, Portland, Ore. Page Forty i h^-Mzud^^iwnrmt LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY -k.'. \C"*-' f.AlHf IKLD. I OVX.A '^j,^ Design 2556 — For 20 Cows Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 64 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the 'o ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. 4 The lower story is 9' o ft- high, the hay mow is " 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The cost is estimated to be $1975.00. u The foundation wall is of concrete construc- tion, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2556 j" qq We can furnish complete blue-prints for any building illustrated in this book. Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield. Iowa, Gentlemen: The barn fixtures which I bought of you have given entire satisfaction; also the feed track connecting all three of the barns and silos. I have never seen a better stanchion than yours; ours are almost unbreakable. I am sending you by this mail some pictures of our barn. Don't send them back and no charge if you use them. Yours respectfully, A. L. Glascock, Edgefield Farm, Registered Jersey Cattle, Maysville, Kentucky. r.iri^iihjj^dinaMl ll.lJ=J-lrfcJJ!,IJJhJ. Page Forty-one , !- i i^_: T.OUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1602— For 20 Cows Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 36 ft. long. The frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 22 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, and the ridge of roof is 34 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construc- tion, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1800.00. The second story has a capacity for 70 tons of loose hay and space for additional bins if they should be wanted. Special attention has been given this design as to light and ventilation. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1602 $5,00 ilisficd with the Louden. Louden Machinery Company, Gentlemen: After trying different tracks and hangers on my heavy barn door. 1 ar Yours truly (Signed) SAMUEL H. MARTIN. Whitewood. South Dakota Page Forty-two LOUD EN MACHINERY COBI PANY Design 2562 — For 20 Cows 1 I'^i^'f'-pri^^i^i 1 1 1 AiA/i/c£:r^ ^ \ "^^r'.r£:E,a_AL€kYj^X JS^^ \ t9lco!vvlsrj)/.U|i :| | ""\ UT-TE-fl:. ALI^fL-Y Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 46 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1 500.00. The man who keeps good stock and builds good buildings to house them, is the man to succeed and build up a business that will give him an enviable reputation that will reach far beyond the county in which he lives. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2562 $C 00 1 ^rMiihjj^dinrn ■»ij=y^^zfcjai^JiiJ- Page Forty-three ;^^^-»ui^ ti ; i |;M '*(€<•)" * ^t\> ' Design 2600B -J?S -oi For 15 1 Cows This barn is of good design where it is intended to start with a herd of 10 to 15 dairy cows and breed up to a larger capacity. The cow pens can be used for young stock, yearlings and two year olds until the herd is large enough to fill the barn with milch cows alone. Then the pens can be removed and placed in a separate barn and their place in the barn provided with additional cow stalls, giving the barn a capacity of 28 cows. This barn is designed so it can be built in the bank of a hill and by ex- cavating under one half of the barn a basement about 18x56 ft., outside measurements can be had for storage of implements or for a shelter shed for loose stock. The cost is estimated to be $2300.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2600B $C 00 Page Forty-four f a^BHO^SiiEn! EBEESOaSBC ^b LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY ARCHITECTURAL DEPARTMENT LOUDEN MACIilNERY CO. FAlRriZLD IOWA Design 2564 — For 12 Cows Description This barn is 30 ft. wide by 60 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 21 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 5 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 34 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1750.00. Average Periods of Incubation Chickens 20-22 days Geese 28-34 days Ducks 28 days Turkeys 27-29 days Canary birds 14 days Guinea fowls 28_days Pheasants 25 days Ostriches 40-42 days Pigeons 18 days Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2564 $5,00 rj;W!lhd^«hJll:7JI ll.lJrJlzhJai^.'hJi. Page Forty-five T.QUDEN MACHINERY COMPABJY Design 2558 For 12 Cows and Box Pens n il^icjo4 \sf\.^\cs\ 1 1 ;ii ; ./»f>4W5zr^ ; . .- -v^^cz ■fi-^^ a^^^^ -i4" a«* ^^-V AoA «r/V 1 1 1 :i ;i iVJr;AZV *:»^ '^:.U ; h.^M '^^**^ Design 2569 For 20 Cows and 6 Horses Description ; This barn is 38 ft. wide by 118 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 4 ft. above the ground and the frame side- walls are 12 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 5 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of ihe lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. Price of Complete working The cost is estimated to be $3800.00. plans and specifications for Design 2569 $r 00 AN OPINION ON LOUDEN HAY FORKS \ Apison, Tenn. Aug. I, 1914 Louden Machinery Company, Fairfield, Iowa Gentlemen: . , . i i i l i 1 beg leave lo say that the outfit has given entire satisfaction and that I am much bet- ter pleased with it than 1 had thought 1 would be. I have used other makes of hay forks but this is the best that 1 have ever seen. It is the only fork in the community and has caused a lot of comment. The gentle- man from whom I bought the farm came around to see it work. He had been handhng over a hundred acres of hay every year with the back-breaking pitch-fork method, and when he saw the fork work and the case with which 1 filled my mow. he said, "That thing works like it had good ■enae." I told him that the man who made it had a good supply. ,,■■<< l- j I shall always be ready to demonstrate the outfit to any of my neighbors, for I feel that it is the best hired man that a farmer can get. Thanking you for all favors, I am Yours very truly. (.Signed) J. L. Hinshaw Page Fifty-two I aisaiB3i!Ezxaf LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2026 For 16 Cows and 18 Horses Description This barn is 66 ft. wide by 88 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 22 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 4 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3260.00. Number of Cows for One Silo Taking one farming condition with another, it seems neces- sary to have at least ten head of cows to make sufficient business for silo feeding. After the silo is built and the farmer realizes its value for feeding purposes, and the ease with which the farm live stock is provided with roughage, he generally starts out to buy more cows. This is one reason why silage is so very profitable. Too many farmers get along with five or six head of cows, when twenty head should be kept. Farmers are wary about keeping more stock than they can feed. Most farmers have had experiences in buying high- priced feed to carry them through the winter; it makes them careful. It requires about one month's feeding with silage to appreciate its possibilities. The following table gives the amount of silage nec- essary for different sized herds of cattle. It also gives the amounts to feed daily, together with the acreage of land necessary to grow the corn to fill it. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2026 «/j qq Number of cows Silage for 180 days at 30 lbs. SIZE OF SILO Acres of corn at 15 tons Inside Depth per day per acre diameter of silage Tons Acres Feet Feet 14 38 2 to 3 10 26 15 40 3 to3i 10 28 20 54 3J to4 12 26 25 68 4 to 5 14 26 30 81 5 to 6 14 28 35 95 6 to 7 16 26 40 108 7 to 8 16 28 45 122 8 to 9 18 26 50 136 9 to 10 20 26 ^ ft. high, the hay mow is 23 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2530.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2559 _<{;£; qq 55/ In a warm stable we can coax a baby beef to weigh a thousand pounds before it is a year old. A farm with poor buildings is at the mercy and caprice of specu- lators. Grain must be threshed and marketed, regardless of the season. Before the time of good farm buildings, grain sold for little money and a great deal of it was wasted between the field and the cash re- turns. Increase in the value of live stock has changed the whole farming business. When corn is cheap, instead of feeding it into a heating stove, farmers feed it to cattle and hogs. A good live-stock farm is a busy place. It furnishes something of interest every hour of the day. The live-stock popula- tion on a well-managed farm increases each year. The increase demands greater accommodation, so that we must repair the old buildings and we must build new ones. This is just the same as manufacturing in other lines; no man can remain stationary, and prosper. Factories of all kinds must throw out good machinery that is little the worse for wear, because new processes have been invented and the manufacturer is obliged to keep up with the times. The farmer is no excep- tion. Page Fifty-ais i i=w:ihjj.h^inrn i.ijzj.^.-hjaijjhj. Design 1676 — For 12 Cows and 8 Horses Description This barn is 40 ft. wide by 74 ft. long The foundation wall extends 14 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 1 6 ft. high. The lower story is 9^ o ft. high, the hay mow is 27 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The hay mow has storage room for 125 tons of loose hay and also has bins for grain. The cost is estimated to be $2800.00. Pine Nob Farm, Lakeside Station, Spokane Co., Wn. Spokane Seed Company, Spokane, Washington. April 21, 1913. Gentlemen; The Louden Stalls and Stanchions purchased of you several months ago for our dairy barn have given perfect satisfaction, and we have no hesitancy in commending them. They are not only strong and convenient, but are so shaped and adjusted as to admit of full comfort to this very worthy "Step-mother" to the human family. Very truly yours. Pine Nob Farm, Leo Walton, Mgr. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1676 $C 00 ■ iiri.i.i;HiJ=i^^ii;Mi |i.iJdr-irhjai:^ghJ.. Page Fifty-seven LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1928 — For 16 Cows and 12 Horses Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 72 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 10 ft. above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 12 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 28 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 12 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 42 ft. above the ground. The basement wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the basement is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2850.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1928 $C 00 Plan of lower story. Cubic Inches There are 2,150.42 cubic inches in a bushel. The number of cubic inches in a gallon is 231. Page Fifty-eight LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2487 — For 22 Cows and 5 Horses T Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 70 ft. long. Tfie foundation wall extends 10 ft. above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 31 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 13 ft. high, and the ■' ridge of roof is 46 ft. above the ground. \i The basement wall is of concrete construction, " and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. I The barn above the basement is of plank-frame I construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. -^ The cost is estimated to be $4200.00 Louden Machinery Co.. Fairfield. Iowa. Gentlemen: One of your Litter Carrier outfits has been in use in my barn now for about two years and has proven perfectly satisfactory in every way. 1 can highly recommend them to any one. Yours very truly. W. W. Jennings, Prop.. Jenningshurst Stock Farm, Towanda, Pa. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2487 $5,00 i.f,iiii.jj,hJiir> MfmEa3 1rfciflHJIiai Page Fifty-nine rOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY M^UB l/TTCR ALL^y the 1^1^^^^^^^ Design 2566B For 17 Cows and 10 Horses Description '-^" H This barn is 36 ft. wide by 70 ft long. The basement wall extends 10 ft. above ground and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9'. ft. high, the hay mow is 29 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the ) vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 13 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 43 ft. above the ground. The basement wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete ' - ck ^ ^ -^ ^ •-. ■^•-^ construction. The barn above the basement is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without post-'= The cost is estimated to be $2950.00. rrcD U Auus.y:....- <^.: \/o\ i^Jvk5}5Ak4ii LITTLR ALLEY pA Paincsville. Ohio. July 22. 1913. Louden Machinery Company. Fairfield, Iowa. Gentlemen: The carriers are O. K. Have saved their cost already. Yours truly. L. M. Johnson. Mgr., "Old Orchard" Farm, Jersey Cattle. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2566B $C 00 Page Sixty I aiBniisimizsaf LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY ^ Design 1757 — For 16 Cows and 7 Horses Description This barn is 34 ft. wide by 72 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 20 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 4 ft. high and the ridge of roof is 34 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall 's of concrete construction and the entire floor of the lower story is of con- crete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2500.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1757 $C 00 This makes a very compact barn and each foot of space is put to good use. The location of the feeding room is convenient to the horses and the cows can be fed from a silo located at one end of the barn if desired. The hay chute is built inside of the feed room and enclosed to keep the dust out of the stable. The bins can be filled from the outside and if desired, can be extended up into the second story. The exterior view shows the end at left hand end of the plan and illustrates how the litter carrier can be run on a suspended track so the manure spreader can be placed under this track and the carrier dumped direct into spreader. I ^nsansannsa IsBBE _^ IB- Page Sixty-one LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1842 For 10 Cows and 6 Horses Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 70 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 12 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 22 ft. high from the floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 5 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 35 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower stor_\- is of concrete construction The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2500.00. Louden Machinery Company, I'uirficld. Iowa. Gentlemen: My barn is equipped with a Louden Hay Carrier and slings which 1 bought of you the fall of 1910. The slings are the largest you sold. I can unload 1.000 lbs. at each pull, easy. I have a very large door. 9x12. I consider the outfit good in every way. Yours truly, John H. Schlag, Redstone, Mont. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1842 jj- qq auannsDEEQa Page Sixty-two ■■H=f-1;hJgBaua- TOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 1788 — For 12 Cows and 2 Horses r rZ^D ALLZLY I S 1 z_z.< > ^j- ^ ^ The cost is estimated to be $1100.00 Louden Machinery Company. I'airfield. Iowa. Gentlemen: We in.stallecl one of your litter carrier outfits last fall and we find it exactly as represented. We find it one of the greatest time and labor savers on the farm. It has lo be used to be appreciated. Respectfully. C. M. Harness, Galveston, Indiana. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2420 $C 00 Page Seventy ll-lJirTl-hJ{^IJ.'h LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 2051 — General Purpose Barn Description This barn is 26 ft. wide by 36 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 8 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 9} 2 ft. high. The lower story is 93^ ft. high, the hay mow is I 3 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, and the ridge of roof is 26 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $950.00. Louden Barn Equipment has been the best for 48 years Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2051 $5,00 i SsBHEESuBEOaf Page Seventy-one Design 1808 For 6 Cows and 4 Horses ZG'-o" Description This barn is 26 ft. wide by 32 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 12 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalks are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 19 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalis in the hay mow arc 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is ^^ ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1000.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1808 $C 00 Page Seventy-two a^isnosiiEnal lEBQESm siMcL LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY ■'^w Design 1779 — For 5 Cows, 2 Horses, etc. Description This barn is 28 ft. wide by 31 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 9} 2 ft. high. The lower story is 9' 2 ft- high, the hay mow is 14 ft. high from floor to hay carrier- track, and the ridge of roof is 28 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construc- tion, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank- frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1200.00. DE5IQN-/779 Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1779 $5 00 Miller-Cahoon Co., Murray, Utah. Gentlemen: I take pleasure in letting you know that the Louden stanchions placed in our barns have given us entire satisfaction. They are very easily manipulated and kept clean. Very truly yours. George L. Smith, Smith Brothers Jersey Farm, Salt Lake City, Utah. Page Seventy- three } IHT :^ "1 - .-J^ E=^ I , I :^^ I — i E- IIID LOUDEN MAC HINERY COM PANY Design 1552 Barn for 30 Horses CLCANINC^ ALLCV Hr tH , t1H i I \ f\M'WV r^CDlNC. /ALLCy Jfr^Ll^ ^7i|z.i|5 I I (S| 3^Ndfc\ ipv|z.i| CLdANIt^C ALLU'y Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 110 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 8} 2 ft- high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3400.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1552 $5 00 For the^feeding and sheltering of work horses this makes an ideal barn as it is compact and has corn cribs which can also be used for other feed, conveniently located at one end of the center feeding alley, and hay chutes are located at the other end and center of the feeding alley. Litter carrier and feed carrier tracks are provided for and the mow above stable is of ample capacity for all hay and bedding required for the stock this barn will hold. This barn is so arranged that the capacity can be increased at any future time by building on one end an addition of the same construction as the original barn. Special study has been given to the light and ventilation for the comfort of the horses. Gentlemen : The Louden Stalls and Stanchions purchased from you last summer are decidedly satisfactory, especially the Stanchions. We have no trouble in keeping our cows clean. My two boys handle the animals more easily and I notice practically no waste with the feed as with the old system. Have shown the stalls to a number of people. Very truly yours, Karl C. Schaub. Logan. Utah. Page Seventy-four k ^zlM'A^AiJ^AMlzt^m ■-HsUiiiiaM^k LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 1736 — for Horse Barn Description This barn is 32 ft. wide by 70 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 1 8 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 22 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 5 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 34 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2723.00. This makes a very convenient horse barn. The feed bins are well located for the distribution of feed and the stairway to the hay mow is also in a convenient location. The mow will hold 65 tons of hay and bedding and has room for additional grain bins. Feed and litter carrier-tracks can be installed as shown for hand- ling all feed and litter with the minimum time and labor. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 1736 $g 00 ■.i^=y^^rhjai Jgii J ■ Page Seventy-five LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 1503 Description This barn is 36 ft. wide by 62 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the ground and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 23 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 6 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 36 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2030.00. For 20 Horses 4z_^£. I I Nl M kI nI si ij iJ k1 fj nI d |l iT /3 -Sl/^GL^ '^TAL.UZ Description This barn is 38 ft. wide by 86 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 18 inches above the floor and the frame sidewalls are 1 4 ft. high. The lower story is 1 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 4 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 37 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3180.00. The Louden Machinery Co.. Fairfield, Iowa Gentlemen : In regard to the cow stanchions purchased from you. I wish to say that I cannot see how we got along without them before. We can take care of two cows easier than we could one before. We consider the steinchions and silo the best two improvements on the farm. Yours truly, M. L. Wightman, Holder. III. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2065B $C 00 Page Seventy-seven LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 2448 For 18 Horses 60-0"- -m- rrxDiNc ALLEY -"- ' ' 1 I lO ^/ A/C LE. /y OffS c ^7 '\Ll 5 Description This barn is 42 ft. wide by 60 ft. long. The foundation wall extends up to the ceiling, and the frame sidewalls are 9 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 27 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 7 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 39 ft. above the ground. The lower story wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $3100.00. Loudc n M acliinery Co.. Fair field. I owa Gentlemen Am pleased to report the Litter Carrier a perfect outfit and givmg moHt excell ent sat isfaction. Yours truly, E. E. York. Supt.. Odd Fellows Home . Clarksv lie Tenn. Page Seventy-eight ♦ Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2448 $C 00 Ll;M;iM4«t^»nyTll ■fX4^i5iJjj.i.-hiai^?ta - ■ LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2065A— For 18 &o~a "- ^ \ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r^ElD/NG- /}l.LEy Jl Gentlemen: Am pleased to say that the Louden Stalls Eind Feed and Litter Carriers purchased from you for our new barn have proved satisfactory. We are pleased with them in every particular. Yours very truly, John Michels. Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, Wauwatosa, Wis. Horses Description This barn is 38 ft. wide by 60 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 1 8 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 24 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical side- walls in the hay mow are 4 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 38 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete con- struction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1900.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2065A $C 00 >-^rfcJ«l^. Page Seventy-nine LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2600A — Horse Barn VTALU Louden Machinery Compunv. Fairfield, Iowa. Gentlemen: The Hay Fork I purchased ol you is a dandy: used it in clover chaff: handled it fine. J. H. Maurer. Marshall. HI. Description Thi.s barn is 36 ft. wide by 56 ft. long. The frame sidewalls are 14 ft. high. The lower story is 10 ft. high, the hay mow is 2 1 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 3 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 33 ft. above the ground. The foundation and basement wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the first story is of concrete construction. The barn above the basement is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $2230.00. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2600A $C 00 Page Eighty li.ij=j.^rhjri^ri.ji LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Design 2457 For 14 Horses Description This barn is 40 ft. wide by 54 ft. long. The foundation wall extends 24 inches above the ground, and the frame sidewalls are 16 ft. high. The lower story is 9 ft. high, the hay mow is 23 ft. high from floor to hay carrier-track, the vertical sidewalls in the hay mow are 8 ft. high, and the ridge of roof is 39 ft. above the ground. The foundation wall is of concrete construction, and the entire floor of the lower story is of concrete construction. The barn above the foundation is of plank-frame construction and has a clear hay mow without posts. The cost is estimated to be $1873.00. Louden M ichinery Company Fair field, Iowa Dear Sirs: TheG rappl e Fork was the finest thing I ever saw in the way of hayl ork, and I will want a good bill f rom you soon, as I had the misfortune to lose my barn by fire yesterday. S. C. Armstrong, Surgoinsville, Tenn. Price of Complete working plans and specifications for Design 2457 $C 00 rjrIWilhJJ^JI|;Wf Page Eighty-one LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY -V; C^ » ■MP>i> i.n lOvsA Design 2600C Creamery Combined Dairy and Ice House A very neat and convenient farm dairy and ice house is shown in this design. It gives an opportunity to build in such a way as to add to the ap- pearance of the property, while in- creasing the profit and convenience of the farm. The building is 14 by 26 feet, with a porch 8 feet wide. This front porch adds a great deal to tlu" appearance of the building without adding very much to the cost, because a loading platform is necessary anyhow, so the only additional cost is the roof and the two corner posts. In putting up farm buildings, a little attention to appear- ances adds a great deal to the selling value of the property. In this plan, the ice and sawdust are put in at the back of the building. After the ice is packed for summer, this door is shut and made as near air tight as jjossible. When the ice is taken out during the summer, the door into the creamery is used. The ice house is big enough to hold a block of ice 6 feet wide and 10 feet long, allowing a foot of saw- dust all around the ice. It depends upon the size of the dairy whether this will be big enough or not However, the partition can be moved to make the ice house 12 feet square or the building can be length- ened that much. The design is very neat and attractive, and the idea is a good one. Page Eighty-two LOUDE N MACHINERY COM PANY 2^', ,("'-' t WU h \t.\Ay . I <5\\ .\ ^^ ,yC Design 3030 For 16 Hog Pens With a house like this, any farmer can raise pure- bred stock and sell the best animals at high prices. Hogs for fattening should be made to weigh from 180 to 200 pounds when they are eight months old. This is generally the most profitable age and weight, and it is the age and weight wanted by the packers. This age and weight mean that each pig must gain \^^ pounds per day from birth to market time. This is a very profitable gain for hogs to make, and it is reasonable to expect such gains when well bred hogs are well fed and properly cared for in every way. In this plan, it will be noticed that the pens are small. In practice, it has been found better not to nest more than five or six pigs together. They are better in small lots, even if the pens are made quite small. When a house is narrow, and built with a double set of windows, it is easier to get the sun into every part of the house than it is when the house is wider. The length, of course, makes no difference in this respect. The foundation of the building is concrete, and a concrete floor is spread over the whole surface. A concrete floor in a hog house is almost an ab- solute necessity, but it is too cold for hogs to sleep on. For this reason, the nests are placed on loose, wooden floors, that may be moved about for clean- ing. These floors are about half the size of the pens. There should be a ridge around the edge of each floor to hold the bedding. The upper windows are pivoted so any number of them may be pulled open for ventilation. With five shoats in each pen, the house will be warm enough to have some of the windows open most of the time. In fact, hogs need ventilation just as much as any other animal. The detail drawings show the construction of the troughs and the swinging gate. When this house is used for sows and their litters, the pens will be about the right size. ^OUJH - LLZVATION ZND'ILZVATION C&oth v,p3 M^t) MOPJH' ELEVATION 1 IhdJ^JIIiMl ■ ■iJi^J-lrfcJAIJJtiJ-- Page Eighty-three Floor Plan of Typical Hog House — Design 3030 3U/LT ^A/r If. w/j riooA y-y^z/DE. nz/aD /z/ro /a/d/wual FZfZ5 ^ ^nMi I I I I I I I I M I cx ,i M I ' I rrnli i m i , i i , i u ; ^■.'v;J.^^■:;^^v^^;■^.v^:/;;^;\^^t^■^::^:■;^!^^^:^t^?.^^:v^:^^;f:^■:Al^■^.^:^; 'i^ 11 1. D/r/z/a y/ir Q-O Design 3030 Price for Complete Working Plans and Specifications of Design 3030, $3.00 Page Eighty-four ♦ . fri-iu!injArfwnrT« ff.i^ji .H=MzkA ai^a- LOUDEN MACHINERY COM PANY DIJAIL or CAT5S ALONG fflSSACC H Design 3030 Typical Hog House DE3IGNE.JD FOR Cross Section of Typical Hog House, Looking West f ^qKt • PaHel ^ARTITIOH." -^AHeL k • &^.-i^ ; ihdj^ Tinnw f((i'^ U-i^=yjrfcjangkJ • Page; Eighty-five fOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 2457B Hog House with 16 Pens A hog house with very small pens for special show pigs is shown in design 2457B. These pens are only 5 feet wide by 8 feet in length with a 4 foot alley between, but it gives pens enough to divide up a lot of show hogs in such a way that the best may be easily selected out for selling or for show purposes. It is a special plan that will appeal to breeders of high priced hogs. With a very little altering, these pens can be used at farrowing time and probably would be used for that purpose on almost any stock farm. Such a building is supposed to be placed near the regular hog house with a runway to transfer hogs or pigs from one house to the other. Winter Hog Houses Pure bred hogs usually have very litllc hair on ihcm. For this reason, lhc.\- need protection in the winter time more than any other farm animal. Hogs have been neglected by nature in this respect. There are hundreds of farms where larger animals wearing thick, hairy coats are carefully housed, while hogs are left out in their nakedness, with nothing but a loose board roof over them. Such farmers have bad luck with their hogs, and they never can account for it. They seem to think that a hog is tough, and that a certain amount of abuse is good for it. Hogs are the worst abused of all domestic animals, and they are among the most profitable when handled intelligently. Page Eighty-aix U.lJrJlrliJaH.'hJ- LOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY -V vf^ r.-MRFir L D. IQXSA '^/,>e Design 1805 Four-Pen Hog House This design is intended for the smaller farms where only a few hogs are kept. It is 16 ft. wide by 38 ft. in length, with a passage- way in front of the pens for convenience in getting the hogs or pigs in or out of any pen. There is another passageway across one end, which is in- tended for a feed room. Possibly a feed cooker in this room would be a good thing. These pens are suitable for farrowing pens, also for winter pens for growing or fattening shoats. It is intended that each pen shall have an outside yard the width of the pen and any convenient length. If the yard pens could run back to a farm lane, the arrangement would be fine. There is no ceiling over the pens, but a ceiling may be nailed onto the lower edges of the rafters. An opening through the roof at the peak provides for ventilation through a cupola. The ventilator may be closed with a trap door hanging in the opening to be operated by weight and pulley cord. A great many farmers have the idea that they cannot afford a hog house. The fact is, that well bred hogs, properly housed and fed, will pay for a house quicker than any other kind of live stock. By means of farm buildings, we are enabled to sell our corn for $2 per bushel by shipping it in pig skins. Dear Sirs: The Louden Stanchions are a fine thing for milch cows, very comfort- able to the cow and easy to operate. The Hay and Litter Carrier outfits work fine and are. I consider, indispensable in a barn. I would not do without them for any reasonable consideration. Very respectfully. L. W. Babcock. Harper, Kansas. Louden Hog Pens. Page Eighty-seven rOUD EN MACHINERY COM PANY Inexpensive and Substantial Shelter for Forage Crops With the rapidly increasing interest in alfalfa growing in all sections of the country, the demand for an inexpensive hay shed, which can be erected in the field, has become general. We have had our Archi- tectural Department prepare plans for a simple, easily erected and serviceable shed of this character together with bill of material. The shed we are showing here is 64 feet in length and 24 feet in width. Using the amount of material in this structure as a basis, the cost of larger or smaller sheds can be estimated with no difficulty, by add- ing or substracting any number of bents to make more or less room. The rapid increase in the value of forage crops and the high price of farm lands emphasize the advantage of providing shelter for the entire hay crop. Stacking in the field without cover means considerably deterioration and actual loss. In a large crop this loss will amount to almost the cost of a shelter in a year or two. Even in the semi-arid and other regions where the rainfall is inconsequent, the necessity for shedding is felt. Louden Hay Carriers Away back in 1866 Mr. William Louden invented llie first hay carrier. And it's working yet! Since 1867 many improvement.s have been made, but one thing remains the same. That s the quality which has never varied. And it's this Louden quality that has kept the Louden factory the greatest manufacturer of barn equipment in the world for almost half a century. We Make Hay carriers for forks. Hay carriers for slings. Hay carriers for long barns. Hay carriers for short barns. Hay carriers for square barns. Hay carriers for round barns. Hay carriers for horse power. Hay carriers for engine power. Hay carriers using manila rope. Hay carriers using wire rope. (NOTE: Illustration at left of page shows the Louden Carryall Sling Carrier.! Page Eighty-eight > irMsihjj^jtnm T.QUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Design 3034 — Chicken House V 3^ ALLZ.y \ \A/\£: 3 \T |5 7'j.A-rr'oKM F'^y^-r/^o^^ ''^'^^ ^^TP/irrz/z/va r/.oo7z 5 VUST Locate the poultry house on dry, well "^ drained ground. A damp location means a damp poultry house, and the result is that the fowls are affected with many troublesome diseases. Always face the house toward the south so as to get the sun's rays throughout the day in the winter to keep it bright inside. Let it be sheltered from the wind. Where it is necessary to build in a windy place, trees or small shrubs can be planted to shelter the house during the fall and spring when the winds are violent. A poultry house usually needs more ventilation than is given. Fresh air is far more important than warmth. Fresh air means health, but it should never be supplied by a draft. The best system of ventilation for the ordinary poultry house is a cloth covered window, which allows the air to pass through slowly. Only in coldest weather, however, is the cloth pulled across the window. For the rest of the time it is left wide open. Where a house has its south side made up largely of a window group only about half of the spaces should be glazed and the other half left open, and cloth screens supplied. The poultry house floor is important. In many localities a sand or dirt floor is cheaper and is advisa- ble. Hens like a dirt floor if it is dry. It makes a natural dust wallow, but must be replaced frequently in order to keep the house sanitary. A dirt floor must always be well above the outside grass so that water will not run in. Louden Machinery Company, Fairfield, Iowa Gentlemen : I am sending you interior view of my barn showing Louden Litter Carrier. Cow Stalls and Stanchions. This outfit has given good satisfaction and certainly is a great labor saver. The automatic track opener is a decided success. I recommend the Louden above all others. Yours truly, Charles Sorg. Oswego, 111. Page Eighty-nine T.QUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Louden Equipped Milking Barn at Strathglass Farm, Rochester, N. Y. Louden Steel Stalls The above photo shows one of the many famous dairy barns that are equipped with Louden stalls. Scientific dairymen long ago began to realize the direct profit in housing their cows in comfort and we often hear of milk production increasing 25 per cent when cows are transferred to Louden equipped birns. To be contented a cow must be clean and comfortable; she must be surrounded by sanitary conditions; she must have plenty of light and fresh air. Louden Sanitary Steel Stalls meet every condition. They are constructed of high carbon tubular steel- the strongest material to be obtained. They do not obstruct light or ventilation. They arc fitted throughout with overlapping, dust-proof malleable iron connections. They are absolutely sanitary; there are no cracks or crevices to collect filth and breed bacteria. There are no sharp projections to injure the cow; every corner is rounded and perfectly smooth. Louden Sanitary Steel Stalls will last as long as your barn, and will earn the amount of the original cost over and over again in the increased profits from your cows; and, while a profit-maker, each stall is a pleasure to the owner in the attractiveness it adds to the barn. Write to-day for booklets. You can buy Louden Steel Stalls cheaper than you can have good ones built of wood. Louden Steel Pens Louden Steel Pens for Cows, Calves, Bulls and Hogs, are being installed by thousands of farmers who find that steel pens cost little more than wood, add attractiveness to the barn, and are more sanitary as they are easy to keep clean. Steel pens never get out of repair and will outlast the average barn. Louden Steel Pens are furnished in various weights and sizes of steel and can be made to fit any area that it is necessary to enclose. Write for our Dairy Barn Equipment catalog which gives detailed description and prices. Louden Steel Pens are Sanitary and Strong II' rile for Special Calalofj.s Page Ninety > • ^<-i^:HijjJi¥ny^ f^c:4)| .n = /rli« i jgf517¥M • ^M f nUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY Cl Louden Tubular Steel and Wood Lined Cow Stanchions The tie or the means to hold the cow in the stall, is of the utmost importance. It comes in the most direct contact with the cow, and it must be right to secure the best results. It must hold her securely so she cannot get out of her place, and at the same time she should not feel in the least degree hampered in her natural move- ments. In other words, the cow must be securely held in the stall and at the same time she should not feel that she is being held at all. Many devices have been made to secure this result, but after the most thorough tests it is the general consensus of opinion by the best posted dairymen in the world that there is nothing that equals Louden Tubular Steel Stanchion, which is shown by Figure 861, and Louden Wood-Lined Stanchion shown in Figure 937. They are strong enough to hold the heaviest bull when he tries to get out, but when in his proper place there is not a feather's weight of pressure on him. The slack in the chains which hold them will permit the lower end of the stanchions to swing nearly a foot forward and back or sidewise, while the upper end is susceptible of an almost equal play. The cow can freely move her head from side to side, can reach back to her flanks and get up and lie down and can rest in a natural posi- tion just as easily and unrestrainedly as she would out in the field. There isn't a rough spot or corner about the stanchions that would injure the neck of the most delicate calf. Every part is per- fectly smooth, and is so shaped that it will give the cow the greatest possible freedom while securely holding her in place The chains will permit the stanchions to freely turn to give the cow all necessary freedom, and yet, not turn so far as to "get wrong side to", as it would if it had a swivel. The Louden Stanchions can be hung in Wood Stall Frame or in Tubular Steel Frame, or in any other place where a cow stanchion can be used at all. As will be seen by Figure 861 , the Steel stanchions consist of two sides, which are I r',; inch O. D. Tubular Steel, and which have their ends inwardly bent toward each other, and fitted with latch irons at their upper ends, and hinge irons at their lower ends. Our Wood-lined Stanchion shown by Fig. 937 is decidedly the best of its class on the market. It has substantially the same hinge and latch as our Tubular Steel Stanchion, and a number of its good points, which other wood-lined stanchions do not have. Besides „. Fig. 861. (Togo). this, it is made of a special shape of high carbon T steel, provided with a small rib as shown in illustration. This rib adds considerably to its strength and prevents the wood strip from getting split or knocked off, which is liable to occur in other wood-lined stanchions. We make only one size — 7 inches wide in the clear by 4 feet long. c« ty-one LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY i Louden Hay Tools Louden Junior Fork Carrier. Louden Junior Sling Carrier. Hay harvest is short and the crop is valuable. A delay of a few hours when the hay is down may mean a serious loss. Insure your hay crop by installing hay tools in which you can place confidence under all conditions; which will enable you to take care of your crop quickly and easily. For quick, dependable, thor- oughly satisfactory service in hay time, at the barn or in the field, Louden Hay Tools are un- equalled. They have been for many years the world's stand- ard. They are compact, dur- able, simple in construction and positive in their action. Louden quality is known in every part of the globe where hay is harvested by modern methods. The Louden Fork and Sling Carriers, the Balance Grapple Fork, and the Carry-All Sling are unusually dependable and satisfactory hay unloading tools. They are the result of years of study and experiment. They represent the best in material and workmanship; the strongest, most practical, most efficient tools of their kind sold, regardless of make or price. We also manufacture Pulleys, Field Stackers, Power Hoists, etc. The complete line is shown in the Hay Tool catalog. Copy mailed on request. Louden Fork and Sling Carriers are made for steel, wood or cable track in twenty different styles. There's a carrier to meet every condition which may arise. The parts are few and simple; there is nothing to get out of order. Efficiency is the watchword in the manufacture of Louden Carriers, and to this fact their wide popularity is largely due. The Louden Junior fork and sling carriers, shown in the accom- panying illustrations, are two of the leading carriers for American use. Louden Slings were the first to be put on the market, and continue to be first in quality of material and workmanship. They are made in several styles and may be successfully used for any kind of hay or roughage. For heavy work the Carry-All sling is the leader. It has a double lock and is built excep- tionally strong throughout. It has four parallel ropes with two additional cross ropes between the spreaders to keep short stuff from shattering through. It is factory tested at 3000 pounds. The Louden Power Hoist is made in two styles, single and double drum, and may be used for mowing hay in either a center-drive or an end-drive barn. It may be operated with steam, gasolene or electric power. The power hoist will give you a valuable "lift" in hay time. It saves the labor of one man and one team, and does the work in one-half or one-third the time. The Louden Power Hoist will not only prove a time and dollar saver during hay time, but will prove a handy help about the farm whenever a " lif t " is needed. It is used successfully for elevat- ing wagon boxes, remov- ing hay racks, and in build- ing construction. It is the most reliable hoist ever offered at anywhere near the price, and we can recom- mend it from every stand- point. Nothing ever offered equals the Louden Power Hoist and Carry-All sling L for putting hay into the Louden Balance Grapple Fork. mow or on the stack. Louden Double Drum Power Hoist. ♦ MrMiihja^jinm ■i^ij=r.^rfcjaiJJhJi.. Page Ninety-three Louden Carriers doing a and vay witb posUi In the yard. Louden Litter Carriers are great tii labor savers. With a Louden Litter Canicr barn cleaning is made easy and pleasant work. Every farm needs this equipmunt. Manure mnv be taken diiectly from the stalls to the pit with but one handling by the old- Track arranced with sltcht Incline »o carrier , may he empilril with trip roiK- and returned t- to barn. A burn lu Sweden. 1 7 spreade and in half the fashioned method and lowered t.. an run out and today for d and lessen your wint Carriers are made in both for Steel and Wi: Louden Ft-ed Cnrr ^ i.i.-.i. i.' ustsl In this nuKleru round barn ul Uio Her- oliey l-'iirnut, llerttltcy, Tu. '^HHli'P LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY ^>*tL. Louden Barn Door Hangers Louden Barn Door Hangers are unexcelled for use with any door where it is desired to overcome the inconvenience and awkwardness of a clumsy swinging door. Special Features of Bird Proof Hanger TROLLEYS COMPLETELY ENCLOSED. The only openmg is the narrow slit beneath the track. There is no chance for the trolleys to be clogged or derailed. The track is absolutely proof against nesting birds, trash, rain, snow or sleet. FLEXIBLE AT TWO POINTS. The joint in the hanger strap allows the door to swing out away from the building, frequently avoiding breakage by crowding stock. The joint in the track support permits the track itself to swing out from the building, making it possible to easily dislodge trash and dirt which may accumulate behind the track and rot out the siding. This double flexibility allows the door to fit snugly without sticking or binding. ROLLER BEARING TANDEM TROLLEYS. The trolley wheels revolve on hardened steel roller bearings around a tem- pered steel shaft. Always roll easily. A light push will open or close the heaviest door. TROLLEYS RUN ON LEVEL TREAD. The Bird Proof track is square, not oval. The level tread reduces friction to the minimum and overcomes the wedging tendency frequent- ly found in oval tracks which support heavy doors. SIMPLE AND STRONG IN CONSTRUCTION. The form of the Bird Proof track, and the special grade of steel used in ils manufacture, combine to give it wonderful strength and rigidity. It is further strengthened by the curved lips on the under side of the track. Will not sag under the weight of heavy doors. Louden Double Tread Barn Door Hanger The Double-Tread was the pioneer flexible barn door hanger, and continues to be one of the leading hangers in the market. It is compact, durable and serviceable, simple and strong in construction and sure in its operation. Thousands of these hangers which have been in constant use for many years are still rendering faithful, efficient service — never a hitch in their operation, not a cent paid out for repairs. The Double-Tread is in reality two sets of hangers — a set on each side of the door fitted to run on opposite edges of an inverted T-rail. The track is flexibly hung to brackets secured to the wall, and will accommodate itself to the inequalities of the barn siding. The door can be closely fitted without danger of sticking or binding on account of the warping of door or siding. This feature gives it a decided advantage over all rigid hangers. The track, being a T-rail, takes up the least possible room, and the hanger frame is con- sequently shortened and straightened. The parts of the hanger being clamped solidly together on both sides of the track make it impossible for the trolleys to jump the track. The door is always in place and ready to go. There is an absolute center draft; no side hitch to make a strain on the hanger or throw the door out of plumb. Write for catalog describing the full line of LOUDEN BARN DOOR HANGER Louden Double Tread Barn Door Hanger. 1 ■ ■lJ=#.^rfcdaiJJhJ. Page Ninety-fivs LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY General Index Agricultural-Architecture 5 Animal Pens 90 Bank Barns 26 Barn Door Hangers 95, 14 Carry-All Slings 55, 92^ 93 Canadian Banquet 23 Chicken House 89 Concrete Aggregate 6 Cost of Concrete Construction 7 Foundation Walls 7 Floors 7, 8, 9 Locating Floor Levels 8, 9 Materials of Floors per stall 10 Mixing 6 Doors Sliding 14, 15,95 Hangers 14,95 Ensilage, When to Cut 31 Feed Carriers 29, 94 Floors, Locating Levels 8, 9 Frame Work of Superstructure II Gestation, Periods of 33 Haskell Institute Barns 25 Hay Forks 52 92 93 Hay Carriers 88,' 92 93 Hay Shed .. ' 88 Hog House 83, 86, 87 Incubation, Periods of 45 Litter Carriers 28 94 Power Hoist 92 93 Silos Capacity-Various Dimensions Number of Cows to one Silo Stalls 24 53 c ,. 90 otanchions 91 Steel Pens gQ Strength of Gas Pipe Columns ' . |8 Super Structure Framework | 1 Roof Construction 12, 13, 14 24 Ventilation Louden Window Ventilators |6 Fundamentals of Ventilation [9 King System of Ventilation |9 Vent Flues, Size of, etc 20 Other Ventilation Ideas 22,23 Dairy Cows Index to Barn Plans 80 Cows 28 66 7q 50 ' 30 ^1 ^7 50 40 ' and 6 Box Stalls ...33 30 ' ■ 36' 37 24 ' 38 22 ■ ' ^q 20 ■ 40 41 42.43 44 15 ■ 12 ' ' 4S 12 ■ 9 • 7 ' and Box Pens and Young Stock ...46 ...47 "in 5 • ' <=,] 30 Co Cows and Horses, etc. ws 18 Horses •^^ 20 • 6 ' 18 2 6 8 12 5 10 ' 52 16 • ' 53 26 • 36 ' and Young Stock .. 54 56 12 ' ■ 57 16 ' ■ 58 22 ■ ' 59 17 ■ ' 60 16 ' 7 ' 61 . 10 Cows 12 " 6 " 6 " 12 " 16 " 10 •• 4 •• 6 •• 5 " Page 6 Horses 52 Horse Barns 30 Horses 63 64 65 66 67 69 70 72 73 74 General Horse Barn 75 gQ 20 Horses ' je. 29 •• ;::::::::::::::;:; 77 1^ ;; 78,79 14 g| General Purpose Barns 71, 68, 73 Hog Barns '^Pens 83.86 4 87 Miscellaneous Hay Sheds go Chicken House aa Dairy -Ice' House 72 lu< Utytllf t 0., Prlxn, Cbl^»