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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A MODEL BABN 



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We have the pleasure of presenting our readers 

 a Perspective View and Ground Plan of a Barn 36 

 by 60 feet, for a Hay Barn, Carriage Room, Gra- 

 nary, &c., with a Cow Stable, 33 feet square, with 

 a cellar underneath for manure ; the entrance to 

 the cellar is at the south end. 



We have long been of the opinion that there 

 is scarcely any one thing in which the farmer is 

 directly interested, which so much needs reform 

 as that of the Barn. It is an appendage to the 

 farm of the first importance, requiring so much 

 time to be spent in it, both winter and summer, 

 and having such an intimate relation to the profits 

 upon the stock sheltered under its roof, that it is 

 somewhat strange so few good barns are erected, 

 and stranger still, that scarcely a good model is to 

 be found to the State. Four years ago we built a 

 barn of the best materials, and as we then sup- 

 posed, upon the most approved plan for the stow- 

 age of fodder, and the comfort and convenience of 

 the cattle and those who were to attend them. It 

 has its ample cellar, ventilator, doors moving on 

 rollers, &c, &c. In its construction, we certainly 

 gained two points, viz. : — A fine place to manufac- 

 ture manure, and a pretty equal temperature fur 

 the stock. The space for stowing hay, however, 

 is cut up into too many parts, affording only scant 



room and requiring a great deal of labor in the 

 busy season of haying to stow it away. The breath 

 from the cattle, together with the vapor arising 

 from the manure, which defies all attempts to keep 

 it below the floor if the cellar is warm, covers, not 

 only the floor over the cellar, but the beams, and 

 the whole under side of the roof, with pearly trick- 

 ling drops for weeks together during the winter. 



If the doors are thrown open in order to evapo- 

 rate this moisture, you lose the benefits you have 

 been seeking in making a tight barn, by reducing 

 the temperature so much that cattle require more 

 food, while the effect is to reduce the flow of milk 

 in the cows. 



We could refer the reader to barns built in the 

 most thorough manner, but lacking the proper 

 ventilation, where the timbers over. the cellar have 

 become so weakened and dead in a few years as to 

 snap square off like pipe stems, and the shingles 

 flying by dozens at every fresh gust of wind. 



The plan furnished above by Mr. Hammond, and 

 which we have thought so well of as to cause it 

 to be engraved, seems to us to come nearer to the 

 wants of the farmer than anything we have ever 

 seen before. And it has this merit, that a cheap 

 barn may as well be constructed in this manner 

 as an expensive one. We have no doubt that Mr. 



