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draft on tbe animals. There is 1,233 cu. ft. of air space for eacli animal 

 kept in this building. 



Tbe arrangement of doors is sucli tliat bay, silage, grain, absorbents, 

 etc., are conveniently brought from tbe main floor of tbe storage barn 

 on trucks, and green food can be brought in on wagons through the 

 south door. 





Fig. 2. — GrouuJ plau of Massachusetts College stock barn — first floor. 



A sheep barn 121 by 41 ft. is connected with tbe cow barn by a 

 lean-to containing a passage and 5 box stalls fitted with plank mangers 

 and Buckley's self- feeding watering devices. This barn contains 2 large 

 and 5 small pens, sufficient for 75 sheep, stalls for 20 young cattle, and 4 

 stalls for bulls on the main floor; pigpens, slaughter room, root cellar, 

 and swill room in the basement; and a loft large enough for 40 tons of 

 hay. Doors open at the south end into dry and sheltered yards. The 

 large sheep pens are provided with Hall's patent sheep racks. The 

 cattle stalls are arranged like those in the other stable, except there are 

 troughs of i)lank which have permanent partitions. The entire base- 

 ment has a solid cement floor, which in the pigpens slopes to the center, 

 where there are half-round gutters for carrying all the excreta to pits. 

 About half of each pen has a raised plank floor, and the gutters are 

 covered with hinged plank. 



Ventilation is secured by similar devices to those used in the cow sta- 

 bles. Eeference to tbe above plan and that on page 677 will show 

 that the arrangement of doors and passages is such as to permit the 

 passage of wagons on both basement and main floors. 



The basement and one story northern extension (03 by 56 ft.) are 

 devoted to dairy purposes. In the basement are boiler room, with 

 100-horsepower boiler which supplies steam and hot water for all pur- 

 poses; engine room, in which there is a 75-horsepower engine, supply- 



