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fresh air. No basement is complete without good light and 

 ventilation. 



My horses occupy fourteen feet on the other end of base- 

 ment, with a six foot alley in front, where is a good well of 

 water with pump and spout, to conduct water outside in a 

 trough, to the yard. My oats for horses and meal for cattle, 

 are brought into the basement by spouts from bins above. My 

 hay is taken from the mow to the barn floor, and then direct to 

 the feeding alleys below. In the second story is a twelve feet 

 floor, running lengthwise of the barn ; on one side is a hay 

 mow, fourteen by fifty feet ; the other side is divided as fol- 

 lows : a space eight by fourteen feet is used for oat bins and 

 grain for stock, giving nearly one-half the whole space for 

 machinery, wagons, etc. ; this leaves a ten by fourteen foot 

 hay mow, the whole length of the building on that side of the 

 barn floor, with a stairway going from barn floor to the alley 

 in front of horses. I used about twenty cords of stone for the 

 basement wall, and the lower side of the drive-way, which 

 is at both ends, I covered with second quality flooring, and 

 put on three coats of paint. I have a good ventilator on top 

 of barn, and a weathercock in the form of a horse. 



I am farming on two hundred acres of prairie, of which I 

 use about one hundred acres for wheat each year, seeding to 

 clover more or less, and plowing up some of the grass ground. 



In conclusion, I will say that for climate, good water^ 

 plenty of wood, and deep, rich soil. Nature has done as much 

 for our section of the country as for any part of the great 

 Northwest. 



