150 DESCRIPTION OF PLAN. 



ations. The barn stands, we will suppose, upon a side 

 hill, or an inclined surface, where it is easy to have a 

 cellar, if it is desired ; and the cow-room, as shown in 

 the figure, is in the second story, or directly over the 

 cellar, the bottom of which should be somewhat dished ; 

 or lower in the middle than around the outer sides, and 

 carefully paved or laid in cement. 



The cow-room, as shown in the figure, is drawn on a 

 scale of twenty feet to the inch. On the outside is 

 represented an open shed, m. for carts and wagons to 

 remain under cover, thirty feet by fifteen, while I 1 11 11 

 are bins for vegetables, to be filled through scuttles from 

 the floor of the story above, and surrounded by solid 

 walls. The area of this whole floor equals one hundred 

 feet by fifty-seven, h, open space, and nearly on a 

 level with the cow-chamber, through the door p. s t 

 stairs to third story and to the cellar, d d d, passage 

 next to the walls, five feet wide, and nine inches above 

 the dung-pit. e e e, dung-pit, two feet wide, and seven 

 inches below the floor where the cattle stand. The 

 manure drops from this pit into the cellar below, five 

 feet from the walls, and quite round the cellar, c c c / 

 plank floor for cows, four feet six inches long, b b b, 

 stalls for three yoke of oxen, on a platform five feet six 

 inches long, n n, calf-pens, which may be used also 

 for cows in calving, r r, feeding-troughs for calves. 

 The feeding-boxes are made in the form of trays, with 

 partitions between them. Water comes in by a pipe, 

 to cistern a. This cistern is regulated by a cock and 

 ball, and the water flows by dotted lines, o o o, to the 

 boxes, and each box is connected by lead pipes well 

 secured from frost, so that, if desired, each animal can 

 be watered without leaving the stall, or water can be 

 kept constantly before it. A scuttle by which sweep- 

 ings, etc., may be put through into the cellar, is seen 



