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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



March 



A MODEL BAMN. 



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, Car- 

 riage Room, Granary, &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, that so much needs 

 improvement as the Barn. It is an append- 

 age to the farm of the first importance, requir- 

 ing so much time to be spent in it, both win- 

 ter 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 so few reaWy good models ure to be found. 

 Several years ago we built a barn of the 

 best materials, and as we then supposed 

 upon the most approved plan, for the stowage 

 of fodder and the comfort and convenience of 

 the cattle and those who were to attend them. 



It has its ample cellar, ventilator, doors mov- 

 ing on rollers, «S;c. In its construction we 

 certainly gained two points, viz. : a fine ^lace 

 to manufacture manure, and a pretty equal 

 temperature for the stock. The space for 

 stowing hay, however, is cut 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, trickling drops for weeks togethef 

 during the winter. 



If the doors are thrown open in order to 

 evaporate this moisture, we lose the benefits 

 we have been seeking in making a tight barn, 

 by reducing the temperature so much that cat- 

 tle require more food, while the effect is to 

 reduce the flow of the milk in the cows. 



We could refer the reader to barns built in 



