A MODEL BARN. 777 



is a frame overreaching the stone part on the south side about 

 seven feet, preventing the rain from reaching the stable 

 entrances, and forming a covered walk, in bad weather, when 

 leading horses to water. 



This floor is 40x72, and is approached on the north side by 

 a wagon way. It is divided into four bends of eighteen feet 

 each, and is eighteen feet high in posts. The two center bends 

 have each a double door eighteen feet wide by twelve feet high, 

 where the teams can drive on the upper floor. Doors are also 

 placed on the south side for the purpose of passing the straw- 

 carrier out, when threshing. Along the south side of the west 

 bend is the granary, 18x12, and eight feet high, divided into 

 bins, with a passway, under-door, and a lock. There is also 

 an outside door, to load grain sacks direct into the wagon from 

 the granary. Arrangements are found here under the overshot 

 to hoist beef cattle, when butchering, leaving the blood and 

 offal on the dunghill. 



For ventilation of the upper floor I have seven slatted 

 windows in each gable, with additionals in the sides. The 

 east bend over the horses is always filled with hay. Grain 

 is in the west bend, and also next to hay, so the thresher can 

 be fed from both sides. The straw is partly returned to the 

 barn, the balance stacked on the dunghill before the barn, 

 where cattle run to it, and from whence it is taken for bedding 

 while it lasts. 



A horse hay-fork is in each end of the barn, for the pur- 

 pose of unloading. Attached to the barn on the northeast 

 side, is the implement room, 30x12, where plows, cultivators, 

 drill, mower, etc., are always stored when not in use. On the 

 east side I have another enclosed shed, 52x12, for wagons, 

 sulky, spring-wagon, etc., and a large cistern, with pump, in 

 the south end, where the rain water falling on the barn is col- 

 lected. I have a long watering trough under tlie overshot, 

 next to the horse stable, and a few rods east from this is a never- 

 failing well of good water. In front of tlie barn the ground is 

 removed. Here the dung from the stables is mixed with the 

 refuse of the straw stack not used for bedding. 



