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and passing from the barn floor. This way should be wide enough 

 on one side to place the horse power of a threshing machine. 

 A band may extend from this horse power through a hole in the 

 floor, and drive the straw-cutter, root-slicer, &c. below. The 

 hay for horses and cows, is kept in the loft over the stables, from 

 which it is conveniently thrown down into the passage in front of the 

 animals. E. shed for sheep, with racks at right angles to the pas- 

 sage R. from which they are filled with hay thrown down from above; 

 e, sheep yard; F, piggery;/, pig yard; G. room for boiling roots; I. 

 poultry house; P. passage from manure yard o. to back part of farm. 

 K. K. calf house; L. work shop; M. house for plows, harrows, horse 

 rakes, rollers, &c.; N. wagon shed. H. house for keeping store 

 wood during seasoning, wood seasoned two or three years being 

 much better than for a shorter period; and a rough boarded out-build- 

 ing, being also cheaper than a well finished painted one in contact 

 with the house. The manure yard o. should be about two feet be- 

 low the surrounding buildings, to which the cleanings of the stables 

 are to be taken daily in a large boxed wheel-barrow, and straw and 

 marsh muck supplied as needed. The yard should be well supplied 

 with water as convenience may dictate. Ventillators, made of square 

 board tubes, should be placed over the stables and run up through 

 the roof. 



This plan may be changed, without altering the general arrange- 

 ment, so as to contain more or less grain, more or less hay, stable 

 room, &c. according to circumstances. The hollow square affords 

 shelter to the yard from wind, an important consideration for our cli- 

 mate. The extent and expense of the buildings, are not greater than 

 are often seen, when convenience of arrangement is entirely set aside; 

 and the labor of preparing food and feeding animals, double M'hat it 

 should be. The wings, sheds, poultry yard, garden, &c. may be re- 

 versed, according to aspect and exposure to winds. 



PLANS OF FARM BUILDINGS. 



BY D. G. MITCHELL, SALEM, CONN. 



First is the ground plan of all the buildings proposed, (Figure 

 1.) Entering by the porch at the extreme left of the diagram, we 

 find a hall lighted from the west, with a flight of stairs leading to 

 three good sized chambers. A door at the right, opening upon a snug 



