200 TOBACCO LEAF. 



Sheeting paper is nailed on the studding, and the 

 whole barn is ceiled and weatherboarded. Collar or 

 wind beams are put in the roof. The first set of scaffold 

 beams is set about seven feet from the floor on two 

 sides and one end of the building ; the next set, six feet 

 above the first. Windows are put at each end with 

 12 lights of 10x12 glass. 



In the barn of the size given, five pieces two by 

 eight inches are placed upright, three and one-half feet 



FIG. 55. SIDE ELEVATION, GERMAN BARN. 



apart, and extending from bottom to top of the barn. 

 In the center of each two by eight piece is nailed a piece 

 one and one-half by two inches, which makes a groove 

 on each side of the original piece for confining the racks 

 as they slide up and down, as shown in Fig. 45. The 

 racks, shown in the same illustration, are light frames 

 14 feet long, and, taking their places in the grooves, 

 make five complete stanchions, or rooms, in the barn, of 

 nearly four feet width each. Each rack has 14 notches 



