FARM BUILDINGS. . 13 



Every person wishing to build a barn should first determine 

 how much room he wants, and for what purpose it is to be 

 occupied ; then should examine the best barns in the vicinity 

 and adopt the plan best suited to his location. 



Your Committee would recommend that $15 be paid to John 

 Day, Jr., of Boxford, and $10 to Horace C. Ware, of Salem. 



Joseph How, 

 E. G. Kelley, Committee. 



Statement of John Day, Jr. 



Having presented to your notice, for inspection and premium, 

 my farm buildings, I hereby submit the following description of 

 them. My carriage-house and granary is situated on the south- 

 east side of a hill, making it convenient to drive into the base- 

 ment and the first story. The building is thirty-three feet 

 square, with a flat roof, covered with mastic roofing. The base- 

 ment is eight feet deep, and is used for sawing and storing wood. 

 There is also a small store-room. The first floor is eight feet 

 high, and is used to keep carriages and farm implements in; 

 The upper story is also eight feet high and is used for a granary. 

 On the west and north sides arc bins for corn, three and one- 

 half feet deep, set out four inches from the sides of the building. 

 There are also three doors on each of these sides that can be 

 opened to admit the sun and air to thoroughly dry the corn. 

 The flat roof I find very convenient for spreading fruit to dry. 

 The outside of the building is finished with planed and matched 

 boards, painted. This building is connected with the house by 

 a covered passage, three and one-half feet wide, fifty feet long. 



The barn is situated north-west of the granary. It faces the 

 south. It is one hundred feet nine inches long, forty feet wide, 

 twenty-six feet posts. The cellar is nine feet deep, the bottom 

 paved with small stones. Eighty-eight feet of the cellar is used 

 for manure, and to keep swine. In the cast end is a room 

 twelve feet wide, with cement floor, which I use to store vegeta- 

 bles in. On the first floor I have tie-ups to accommodate forty- 

 one head of cattle, which occupies seventy-two feet of the length 

 of the barn. The tie-ups are thirteen feet four inches wide, and 

 the floor between them is the same width. The height of the 

 tie-ups is seven feet, and the floor is eight feet high. Twenty- 

 four feet of the south side is used for horse stalls and harness- 



