14 . MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



room. On the north side, is a meal-room and a spare stall. 

 Between the meal-room and stall is the passage to carry the 

 swill to the cellar for the swine. On the east and west ends 

 are wide doors, that will admit a cart and oxen, for the purpose 

 of carrying in muck, &c, to put into the cellar below. This 

 story is ventilated by four conductors, — two opposite each 

 other, — sixteen inches square, running up back of the bays, 

 then following the roof uniting in a common ventilator on the 

 top of the building. In the second story there is a bay on 

 either side, one hundred feet long, thirteen and one-half feet 

 wide. The posts on the back side are nineteen feet high. In 

 the middle is a floorway, thirteen feet wide, with a scuttle in 

 each band to drop the hay to the story below. There are also 

 places to conduct the hay to the horses' cribs. In the second 

 band from the west end I have put in Fairbanks' hay scales, 

 which are very convenient to weigh stock, hay, &c. The third 

 band from each end is dropped down three feet from the beams, 

 to make it easier to fill from the floor. The bays are ventilated 

 on the back of the hay by swivel blinds, placed at the bottom of 

 the bay, which can be opened or closed at will. There are also 

 slats running from the bottom up to the top, inside the timbers, 

 to give a free passage of air behind the hay. The entrance to 

 this story from the ground is over a bridge at either end, 

 twenty-two feet long, fourteen feet wide. Over the middle 

 floor, on the posts, is laid a tight floor, thirteen feet wide. On 

 either side of this floor is an open floor, thirteen and one-half 

 feet wide, for storing corn fodder. It is laid with plank eight 

 inches wide, eight inches apart, laid loose, so they can be slipped 

 back when the bays are filled with hay. There are stairs lead- 

 ing from the first story to the cupola on the top of the building. 

 The outside of the barn is boarded, clapboarded and painted 

 and the roof shingled. It is lighted by eight windows on each 

 side, and two in either end. There arc lights over the large 

 doors in the second story. 



In the basement there arc eight lights on the north side. On 

 the south side are large doors, which are kept open in summer 

 and closed in winter. The bam is supplied with pure spring 

 water (from the hill, 1,500 feet west of the barn,) by an aque- 

 duct. It is carried into the first story and the two yards. The 

 yard on the south side is 90 feet square. On the west side is 



