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THE GEK1':SEE FARMER, 



A WBSTEUN JJBTf TOBK BARX. 



A WESTERN NEW YORK BARN. 



We have the pleasure of presenting our readers, 

 tins month, a drawing and description of a well- 

 arranged barn belonging to Mr. Daniel E. Rogers, 

 of Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. Mr. R. kindly 

 furnishes us with the following description : 



" This plan is designed for grain growing and 

 stock raising, and the saving of manure, which is 

 not thrown out of every door and window about 

 the barn, as is the usual practice. It is all wheeled 

 into the yard every day, and littered over and 

 trampled under foot. Tlie stock are all fed under 

 corer, in racks or mangers, and turned into the 

 yard through the middle of the day. 



GROUND PLAX. 



"A, carriage house, 2G by 36 ft. B, work-shop 

 and storage for farm implements or farming tools, 

 24: by 20 ft. C, yard for lambs and the weaker 

 portion of the flock, with large hayloft above,. 30 

 by 30 ft., with an out door yard for them to run 

 out and in at pleasure. D, princii)al yard for cattle 

 or sheep, with open sheds (P, Y,) on two sides. 

 E, large bay, 20 by 30 ft. F, tln-asliing floor, 14 

 by 30 ft., raised seven feet from the ground, with 



storage underneath for chaif, and fnW for the strair 

 as taken by the straw-carrier to the stack at D. 

 G, bay, 18 by 30 ft., with granary taken off that 

 end at I, six feet wide. II, feeding floor for feeding 

 cattle and for filling over the stables. K, cofr 

 stable ; the cows stand on the ground, and the 

 manger is up level with the floor, eighteen inchea 

 from the ground. T, stable for young stock. L, 

 door and passage way for wheehng out manure 

 from the stables. M, N, O, pens for hogs, pigs, or 

 calves, with plenty of storage above for corn and 

 hay. P, open shed. R, R, cisterns. S, room for 

 horse feed, off" from one end of feeding room. T,. 

 horse stable. U, harness rooui between carriage 

 house and horse stable." 



"TROUBLES," AND THEIR REMEDY. 



Editors Genesee Farmer: — In the February 

 number of your journal, J. II. B. asks for a remedy 

 for his "troubles," which are, that in snowy aad 

 thawy weather his cattle trample their feed under 

 foot, and do not eat it up as clean as in cold weather. 

 No doubt the greatest reason why they do not eat 

 it up clean, is, it becomes wet by being exposed to 

 the storm, or the stronger ones drive the weaker 

 ones over it, thus causing a double loss, by wasting 

 feed and robbing tliose wLich need it most. 



J. H. B. will find, if he tries it, that converting a^ 

 part of his shed room into a cattle stable wiH be a 

 perfect remedy for his "troubles." He can then 

 confine those "maternal parents;" "Cherry and 

 Beulah 2d" will get tlieir sliare of the good things — 

 will not have to suflor ])unishment unjustly, nor 

 stand out in a storm while the old folks are snugly 

 located under the shed. He can also feed his cattle- 

 witli the greatest regularity, (which, ])y the way, i* 

 of the utmost importancoO not regulating the time 

 of feeding, nor the f^uantity of food,, by the state of 

 tlie weather or the condition of his barn-yard, but 

 by the demands of nature. m. gaknsey. 



Eaal Cobleskill, SohoharU Co., iV. 3'. 



Old hide-roiind Meadows os Pastures are miicJt 

 improved by harrowing early ui the spring.. 



