UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Agricultural Experiment Station

BULLETIN NO. 143
ECONOMY OF THE ROUND
DAIRY BARN
By WILBER J. FRASER
URBANA, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY, 1910
 Summary of Bulletin No. 143
  1. Round barns would be more generally built if their advantages wereknown and if the few which have been erected had been rightly constructed.Page 1.
  2. The round dairy barn offers greater convenience in storing, handling anddistributing the feed.Page 5.
  3. In the circular construction, much greater strength is secured with lesslumber.Page 6.
  4. The material for rectangular barns costs from 34 to 58 percent morethan for round barns of the same area and capacity.Page 7.
  5. Round and rectangular barns compared.Page 11.
  6. Round and rectangular barns, including silos, compared.Page 13.
  7. Detailed account, with illustrations showing how the round barn at theUniversity was built.Page 17.
  8. Itemized statement of cost of a 60-foot round barn.Page 29.
  9. Brief descriptions with illustrations and plans of several round dairybarns in actual use.Page 31.
  10. Conclusions. The advantages of the round dairy barn are convenience,strength and cheapness.Page 44.
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ECONOMY OF THE ROUND DAIRY BARN
Full Specifications and Detailed Cost and Construction ofthe New Sixty-foot Circular Dairy Barn at the University.Saving of Round over RectangularBarns. Notes on Several Round Barnson Dairy Farms.[A]
By W. J. FRASER, Chief in Dairy Husbandry
The planning, construction, and arrangement of farm buildings do notusually receive the thought and study these subjects warrant. How manydairymen have compared a circular, 40-cow barn with the common rectangularbuilding containing the same area? How many understand thatthe circular structure is much the stronger; that the rectangular form requires22 percent more wall and foundation to enclose the same space; andthat the cost of material is from 34 to 58 percent more for the rectangularbuilding?
In a community in which everyone is engaged in the same occupation,one person is likely to copy from his neighbor withoutapparently giving a thought as to whether or not there is a betterway.
In a district of Kane county, Illinois, a certain type of dairybarn is used by nearly everyone, while in the next county a distinctlydifferent type prevails, and the dairy barns of another adjacentcounty differ from those of either of the former,                         
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