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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



SIDE -HILL BARN. 



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Messrs. Editors : — I send you a design for a side-hill barn, with an elevation, which, 

 if you think of sufficient merit, you can give to your readers. 



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MAIN FLOOR. 



ELEVATION. SIDE-IIILL BARN. 



The barn is designed to be built on 

 the side of a hill which will • allow of 

 excavation sufficient to form the base- 

 ment floor, which contains five stalls 

 for horses and six for cattle, with a 

 feeding passage between, into which is 

 thrown the hay and oats through a 

 trap door in the floor above. From 

 this passage the mangers on either 

 side may be filled very handily and 

 with much less trouble and less risk 

 of being kicked, than when a person 

 has to come up behind the animals to 

 get at their heads. A may be used as 

 a carriage or waggon shed, or to store 

 away straw for the use of the cattle or 

 bedding for horses. R is a cellar for 

 roots, &c. 



On the main floor, H is a place for 

 hay and oats. T, trap-door communi- 

 cating with the feeding passage below. 

 D, threshing floor, 17 by 25. C and 

 B, cribs for corn and other grain. P, 

 passage. S, steps leading into the 

 basement. 



The cost of this barn would probably be between three and four hundred dollars, and 

 perhaps is as good and convenient as can be built for that sum. At least the plan is 

 worthy of consideration. J. W. G. — Hillsboro, Ohio, 



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