FARM BUILDINGS. 



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The steam-pipes for cooking the feed for the stock pass through holes in the wall upon 

 the feeding floor. Steam power is employed for threshing, sawing, fodder-cutting, etc. the 

 waste steam being used for steaming hay, roots, etc., the engine-room being contiguous to, and 

 below the threshing floor. 



The storage-floor contains the hay, grain, straw, and stalks. Two threshing-floors, 16 

 feet wide, cross the building, being entered from the west. Here are hay-scales, and hay- 

 cutters. Each grain and meal-bin communicates by a chute with the feeding-floor, where its 

 contents may be drawn off. From this floor there are stairs that ascend to the cupola. 



The stables for stock are airy and roomy. The horse-stalls are ten feet from front to rear, a 

 little more than 5 feet wide, and 9 feet and 4 inches high. They are separated by plank 

 partitions 4 feet high, surmounted by wire netting, which extends 2 feet higher. The same 

 kind of partition also forms the front of the stalls. 



An iron hay-rack is located in one corner, and an iron feed-box in the opposite corner, 

 which is accessible from the passage-way in front of the stalls, by a small door in the wire 

 netting. 



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GROUND PLAN OF FEEDING-FLOOR AND YARDS. 



The stalls contain two floors, the lower one being laid of two-inch chestnut plank, 

 with cleats half an inch thick covering the cracks between the planks. Upon this water 

 tight floor is another made of three parts ; two feet of the upper end is made of white oak 

 plank nailed fast. The remainder of the floor is formed of narrow oak plank, fastened to 

 gether by strong oak cleats in such a manner as to form what is similar to two doors hinged 

 at either side, so as to be lifted and set up as shown in the cut. This arrangement is designed 

 for the more perfect cleansing of the lower floor. A channel at the rear carries off the 

 liquid manure, and the solid manure is thrown into the cellar, through the trap-door seen 

 open in the illustration of the horse-stalls, and indicated by C in the diagram of the feeding- 

 floors. 



Between the cattle-stalls, in the south wing, is a passage-way ten feet wide, through which 

 calls with green food, roots, &c., may be driven. This arrangement favors a system of 

 soiling in summer when desired. There is also a similar passage-way through the east wing, 

 all the cattle-stalls being made upon the same principle, although of different sizes, being 



