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weather and in cold, for keeping all manure made, under cover, 

 from the time when it is dropped until it is carted on to the land, 

 and for " soiling" my animals in summer. 



It would not be difficult to make a plan of a barn with more 

 various capacities and more conveniences than that at Ogden 

 Farm for the handling of grain, etc., but it seems to be desirable 

 that recommendations for the construction of farm buildings 

 should be based as far as possible on the personal experience of 

 the writer, — and in my own case I have endeavored to combine 

 every thing that is really essential to convenience and economy. 

 I have prepared drawings of this barn exactly as it is built, and 

 with only such attachments as I purpose having in regular use. 



This is in no respect a " fancy " building. It is as plain as a 

 pike-staff, as all farm barns should be, with not a dollar expend- 

 ed anywhere for ornament, and, although it has many of the 

 *' modern conveniences," they are all such as I have seen in 

 practical and profitable use elsewhere, except in the single item 

 of the railway and car to carry the feed to the heads of the stalls, 

 which is a cheap arrangement that recommends itself, especially 

 where animals are to be " soiled," — that is, fed on green fodder in 

 their stalls all summer. 



The first problem that presented itself was to so arrange the 

 barn that there should be no pitching up of any thing — that the 

 hay should be hauled in wagons on to the top floor of the barn, 

 and there stowed away by horse-power; thence thrown down to 

 the feeding floor ; and the manure from this to the cellar ; — or, in 

 summer, that the corn fodder or other green food should be 

 dumped from a cart directly into the car, by which it will be 

 taken to the cattle. 



In short, I wanted a side-hill barn, but had no side-hill to build 

 it on, the land sloping only two feet in a length of one hundred 

 feet. 



The barn stands in the middle of an old apple-orchard, about two 

 hundred and twenty feet wide and three hundred feet long, two 

 rows of trees being left all around the space occupied by the barn. 

 The whole is surrounded, except at the entrance end, by a stone wall 



