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By the same process as the above, there cau be made the 

 very best door-yard walks, sidewalks, and street crocssiugs. 

 Not even the continual passing of teams over the street cross- 

 ings, nor the heaving and subsiding of freezing and thawing 

 mud hurt them. It only grows harder and more enduring con 

 tinually. The smell soon passes away in the open air, and is 

 no more trouble. 



We have given elsewhere plans of a sheep barn, {Fi,g. 85,) a 

 a piggery, {Fig. 90,) and a poultry house, {Fig. 97.) 



Fig. 1-il, is a ground phin of the burn represented in our 

 steel engraved frontispiece, a, a, a are the doors seen lu the 

 engraving, leading into the barnyard, s, s, the stalls for cows 

 and cattle, r, is the root cellar, ^, the grain room, and c, the 

 cooking room. The barn is in a side hill and the root cellar, 

 cooking room, and granary are nearly all under ground. 



The stable floors are made of gravel and coal tar, as described 

 above, and have gutters running to the yard and connecting 

 with the manure well. There is a cistern under the cooking 

 room which is always kept filled from the roof troughs, and the 

 stables are kept washed down. " A large amount of liquid 

 manure is saved, and is used as directed in Ghapttr III. This 

 cistern also furnishes a supply of water the year round. The 

 roofs of a large barn forty by sixty, will furnish three thousand 

 barrels of water annually, which would require a cistern hold- 

 ing two hundred and forty barrels to be drained monthly. 



Farmers often build small cisterns, and drain a large roof 

 surface into them, keeping them constantly overflowed. « A 

 roof twenty by thirty will average one hundred and twenty 

 barrels of water per month. The following, which we found in 

 a Western paper, exactly expresses a great need at the West. 



" Farmers in the West have not learned to appreciate the im- 

 portance of barns, and the annual loss to them in consequence 

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