No. 8. 



A Good Barn. 



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Door. Barn yard. 



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For the Farmers' Cabinet'. 



A Cood Barn. 



To THE Editor, — Having noticed in the 

 sixth No. of the present volume of the 

 Cabinet, an inquiry for a "full description of, 

 a convenient large barn, &c.," by " A New 

 Subscriber," I concluded to say that I built 

 in the year 1841, a barn that suits me — and 

 I think it the most convenient one I have 

 seen : it answers the description of the one 

 queried after, very nearly. It is 64 feet 

 long by 46 wide, with overshoot twelve feet 

 wide. It is built stable high (seven feet) of 

 stone; then frame-work above; the posts are, 

 twenty-two feet high, all thoroughly tied' 

 and braced — one drive-way sixteen feet from; 

 one end, going in the upper side and on the 

 third floor — the barn being built upon the 

 side of a slight hill — and entering the barn 

 by a portico extended twelve feet from the 

 outside of the barn, and thirteen feet wide; 

 the door is thirteen feet high, and opens in- 

 side of the portico ; the drive-way or floor is 

 seven feet above the bottoms of all the 

 mows, and fourteen from the stable floors; 

 the mows are so arranged as to be all six- 

 teen feet square, being the most profitable 

 length to cut the timbers, ties, &,c. — this 

 floor or drive-way is sixteen feet wide, and 



the doors of entrance thirteen feet, leaving a 

 notch of three feet inside the portico to 

 stand the threshing machine upon a grated 

 floor; the grain passing through the upper 

 on to the lower floor, and the straw remaining 

 above, ready to be pitched into any empty mow, 

 from which the grain has been taken, or mto 

 one of the overshoot mows, which is kept on 

 purpose — all the space between the floor im- 

 mediately over the stables, and under the 

 drive floor, can be occupied with cleaning 

 the grain, granaries, chafl^, potatoes, apples, 

 &c. Another drive-way and floor enter from 

 the other end, with doors, floor, and all thir- 

 teen feet wide and high. This drive-way 

 runs into the one above spoken of, as shown 

 I in the cut — under the porticos are glass win- 

 ■dows to light the middle floor; this last men- 

 tioned drive runs into the other — when done 

 unloading a wagon we drive out at the other 

 : doors, thereby saving the inconvenience of 

 backing out — we all the time "go ahead." 

 'By driving in on the third floor, I have two 

 ! rooms below for granaries, one 16 feet by 58 

 jfeet, the other 13 feet by 32 feet, all gain 

 ;over the old method; beside having seven 

 feet below the floor all around to pitch down 

 j — this being fourteen feet below the shelv- 

 I ings of the wagon to fill before we pitch up 

 I any. 



