CHAPTER XIX 



FRIED PORK 



I HAD given Nelson this sketch as a guide in 

 working out the plan for the cow barn : Length 

 over all, 130 feet ; width, 40 feet. This parallelo- 

 gram was to be divided lengthwise into three 

 equal spaces, one in the centre for a driveway, 

 and one on each side for the cow platforms and 

 feeding mangers. Twenty feet at the west end 

 of the barn was partitioned off, one corner for a 

 small granary, the other for a kitchen in which 

 the food was to be prepared. These rooms were 

 each thirteen feet by twenty. At the other end 

 of the building, ten feet on each side was given 

 over to hospital purposes, a lying-in ward ten 

 feet by thirteen being on each side of the drive- 

 way. 



The foundation for this building was to be of 

 stone, and the entire floor of cement ; and the 

 walls were to be sealed within and sheeted with- 

 out, and then covered with ship lap boards, mak- 

 ing three thicknesses of boards. It was to be 

 one story high. An east-and-west passage, cut- 

 ting the main drive at right angles, divided the 

 barn at its middle. At the south end of this 



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