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cow stalls to the west wall. This space, three by nine and one- 

 half feet, is the site of the stairs. The portion inclosed, nine 

 and one-half feet by nine, is the root room, in front of which, 

 the space remaining in a line with the adjustable platforms of 

 the horse stalls, and running across the end of the cow stalls, 

 four feet six inches by twelve feet, is the passage from the tool 

 and wagon room to the horse and ox stalls. From this passage 

 there is a door entering the root room. By tlie side of this 

 passage, at the foot of the stairs, is the watering trougii, which 

 is set into the space allotted to the root room, and supplied from 

 the west reservoir, back of the root room. 



Ascending the stairs, from this passage, we land against the 

 west wall of the barn, and by the north side of that portion of 

 the barn floor that lays directly over the cow stalls, the cow 

 stalls being under the threshing floor of the barn. 



To draw the upper floor, draw a parallelogram, as directed 

 for the lower floor, fifty by sixty feet, placing the point of the 

 compass in the same way, parallel with the north line. Draw 

 a line across the plan, fourteen feet south of it. This line will 

 constitute the northerly wall line of the building, on the second 

 floor. Across the plan, twelve feet north of the south line, 

 draw a line. This line will constitute the south wall line of the 

 building, on the second, or upper floor. The portions to the 

 north and south of this floor are the sites of the north and south 

 shed roofs. Draw a line across the plan ten feet south of the 

 north wall line of the second floor, and you have the back line 

 of the top of the cow cribs. Two feet and six inches south 

 from this draw a parallel line across the figure, and you have 

 the south line of the top of the cow cribs, and the north line of 

 the floor that constitutes the passage through the barn from 

 east to west, or threshing floor. Ten feet south of this line 

 draw a parallel line across the figure, and you have the plan of 

 the passage floor. Place a door at the east and west end of this 

 floor, each ten feet in width, and place windows in each 'door. 

 There should be windows, two in each gable. Build a ventila- 

 tor at the centre of the roof. In storing hay upon the south 

 side of the ten feet floorway, care should be taken to leave, a 

 passage by the top of the cribs that stand by the west wall, so 

 as not to in4;erfere with feeding. This story of the barn should 

 be sixteen or eighteen feet high, and appropriated to the receiv- 



