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Scale 20 ft. to the inch. Diameter of barn 60 ft. 4J inches. 



Figure 2 sliows a barn of twenty-five feet on the sides. Diam- 

 eter of barn sixty feet and four and one-third inches. A good 

 height of walls for such a barn would be twenty-four feet. The 

 floor-way should be twelve feet in the clear. Under the girts the 

 centre space is thirty-three feet wide. Five sides give ample room 

 for twenty-five stalls for large cattle or horses, being four feet wide 

 each at the rear. Pillars may be set in front of stalls to support 

 the scaffold, and leave the centre space clear. The loft of such a 

 barn will store one hundred tons of hay. In many locations the cart 

 way could be cheaply made to an upper floor, thus saving much 

 severe labor in the unloading of fodder. When such an arrangement 

 is not practicable, (3) the height of roof on this plan would admit 



(3.) An upper floor for a cart-way in this plan is not impracticable, even on a 

 level plat. Neither should the cellar be omitted. To a floor elevated twelve feet 

 above the lower oue, the lower being three feet above the surface of the ground, an 

 easy grade may be had ("five degrees elevation) by commencing an artificial embank- 

 ment one hundred and seventy feet distant. Tlie twenty feet adjoining the barn 

 should be a bridge, under which a short cart may enter and leave the lower floor. 

 This matter of an upper cart-way is one of immense importance, and should be 

 secured even at a heavy outlay. 



