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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



a system of pullies attached to the apex of the roof, and by a horse 

 working below, a load of bay could at once, by a net of ropes laid 

 in the cart, be raised and swung to any side by a changeable pulley, 

 and deposited at will. 



We will not tax our artist for many lines and figures on this plan. 

 A general idea based on our convictions of its entire feasibility, is 

 all we here offer. 



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Fig-. 3. 



Scale 20 feet to the inch. 

 Figure 3 represents the main floor of a barn sixty by forty feet, 

 facing the south, the ground descending east and south, entrance at 

 the west. This figure shows the floor, stables for horses and oxen, 

 hay bays, walk for feeding cattle in basement, and stairs to basement 

 and root cellar. Figure 4 shows the basement to same structure. 



Fig. 4. 



