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AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



ground space may be used either as a stfercorary (a place 

 for housing manures), or as stables for the cattle or sheep, 



But one side of the floor is used for stabling, and the re 

 mainder is devoted to the storage of. hay, grain, roots, o 

 other cattle food ; or it may be employed for storing wagons 

 plows, and other farm implements. Barns of this style an 

 among the most convenient of the farm buildings. 



Fig. 100 is an end, and Fig. 101, a side view of an im 

 mense barn, capable of holding 100 tons of hay, and IOC 

 head of cattle and young stock. 



