Bates Round Barn - Greene, NY
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N 42° 18.184 W 075° 48.093
18T E 433933 N 4683737
Local farmer, DeVern Bates, built two round barns in Chenango County. This is the second one.
Waymark Code: WMPEM9
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2015
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wikipedia "Bates Round Barn is a historic round barn at Greene in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1928 and is a three story structure, with attic, and a diameter of 60 feet. It is covered by a domical roof and the interior silo, built of tile, is topped by a ventilator. DeVern Bates also built the nearby Young Round Barn."
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"Bates was apparently so convinced of the advantages of a round barn that twelve years later he started construction of another one, this time on his farm, less than a mile up the road. Called "Brook Haven," with this barn Bates made a few modifications to the basic design. For one, he added an entire level. The second floor of Bates' new four-story barn was set up for raising calves, and later housed 1,000 chickens.
Bates' other deviation from the basic concept was in the way he arranged the dairy cows. Bates still had them standing in a circle, but in apparent contradiction to the basic round barn design premise, his cows would face OUTWARD. This configuration provided better ventilation for the herd and according to Bates, even greater efficiency. As he reportedly explained at the time, there's more work to do at the back end of a cow than at the front end."
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