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THE FARMER'S AND 



Floor. 



ELEVATION OF THE FARMERY Fig. 4. 



Figure 4, is an elevation of the farmery, and fig. 5 is 

 a plan of the farmery, house, and adjacent grounds. The 

 farm buildings form nearly a hollow square, the barn in 

 the centre of the further range. In fig. 5, the barn cellar 

 only is shown, being on a level with the stables on each 

 side. The further part is for roots, and is filled through 

 two windows with hopper-like troughs, 

 into which the cart is dumped. The 

 nearer part is for straw, to be used for 

 cutting and for littering. From the 

 intermediate space, passages four feet 

 wide, run in front of the stables on 

 either side, for feeding. Fig. 6, shows 

 the upper floor of the barn ; A, un- 

 threshed grain ; R, corn-crib ; C, gra- 

 nary, the bin for oats, with an opening 

 below for feeding horses ; this opening closed by a sliding 

 board. A door opens from each of the last, to facilitate 

 loading of wagons from them in the yard below ; the bay 

 for straw extends upward as high as the top of the gra- 

 nary, over which a floor is placed for holding unthreshed 

 grain above. The dotted lines show the wagon- way for 

 entering and passing from the barn floor. 



This way should be wide enough on one side to place 

 the horse-power of a threshing machine. A band may 



Straw. 



Figure 6. 



