FARM IMPLEMENTS AND BUILDINGS. 



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this case little or no stabling is required. The 

 method that many are following with good results 

 is buying stock in the autumn, fattening them during 

 the winter, and selling in the spring. This requires 

 considerable stable-room. 



The different systems of farming require build- o^hlv^ng^Ltve 

 ings speciall}/ arranged, and, in giving the design stock dose 

 for a barn, it will have to be on general principles. 

 In the first place, it is desirable, for convenience, to 

 have the live stock under one roof, or in buildings 

 close together. Horses and cattle do all right in 

 stone or concrete basement, sheeted on the inside 

 with lumber. Sheep and pigs do better in separate 

 and wooden buildings. Whether a barn with an 

 end or side drive is preferable is a debatable question. 

 With an end drive through the centre of the building 

 there is a large amount of space lost, since the drive- 

 way comes under the highest part of the roof. In a 

 side drive, where the barn is over sixty feet long, it 

 ie necessar}' to have two drives. 



For a farm of from one hundred and fifty to two size of Bam. 

 hundred acres, the barn should be sixty feet wide by 

 one hundred feet long, with twenty-four feet posts. 

 See Elevation 2q. The mows are twenty-seven feet 

 deep ; the dri\'eways twelve feet each, and the space 

 between twenty-one feet, half of which is for the 

 granan,'. The balance between the driveways is 

 convenient for turning the waggons on, by driving 

 in one way and out the other. When not required 

 for storing grain the barn can also be used for storing 

 chaff, which is too valuable to be used for bedding. 



The whole of the ground floor of the barn should Flooring Bam. 

 be covered with two thicknesses of inch boards, ten 

 or twelve inches wide. First cover with inch hem- 

 lock nailed to the joists. Then cover with tar- 

 paper, then a layer of pine boards, laid so as to break 



