1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



283 



any kind our readers may have which is distinct, 

 with a short description of the same. In return, we 

 intend to distribute gratuitously the best seeds which 

 we can procure either at home or abroad. We go 

 for improvement because we believe in it — not to 

 speculate, nor for the almighty dollar. 



The head of Troy wheat which we have had drawn 

 and engraved, was grown by Mr. C. Howell, of 

 Ogden, from seed procured at the Farmer office ; 

 tliat of Australian was grown by Mr. Davidson. 



PLAN OF A HAY BAEN 



Eds. Gkn. Farmer : — I saw in the Farmer of March 

 last, page 69, a draft of a Barn with a manure cellar, 

 which attracted my attention considerable, and as 

 you appear to be in favor of drawings, and not being 

 exactly satisfied with any plan presented, I send you 

 a plan on which I should build a Hay Barn for my- 

 self. An addition can be added for grain to suit the 

 fancy. As I am a reader of your valuable paper, I 

 am bound, with others, to convey whatever I consider 

 to be worthy of its columns to its editors. 



B" B- 



Fig. 1 represents the lower or basement story, 44 

 feet long. A, Manure cellar; B, B, B, B, Pillars on 

 which the frame work of the building rests ; C, C, 

 Compost cellar, the compost to be put in in the 

 spring and remain till wanted ; D, Cellar for vegeta- 

 bles ; E, Stairs leading up to the floor.. 



Fig. 2 represents the floor of the barn. A, A, 

 Barn Doors ; B, B, Stable floor, 18 feet wide ; C, C, 

 an opening to throw down the manure and litter into 

 the cellar, 9 inches wide, the opening to be covered 

 with a plank and fastened there by short bits of scant- 

 ling fastened to the plank by means of iron screws; 

 the scantlings drop through the floor and hold tiie 

 plank in its place. D, D, Stantions and Mangers, 

 3 feet wide, the stantions to be shoved back against 

 the mow when the barn is filled ; E, E, Bay 14 feet 

 wide. 



By a scaffold over the floor, you can fill your barn 

 full of hay, except where the cattle stand. You then 

 fodder into each manger from each mow, and your 

 cattle f^tand rumps together, and the manure drops in 

 the center of the floor. By raising the plank, you 

 throw the manure, with the litter, into the cellar be- 

 low, which, if your compost was prepared in the 

 spring, it is ready to throw into the manure h^ap 

 to save the leakage of the cattle. Whoever carries 



out this principle correctly, if he does not find his 

 cellar full of manure, he may tell me I am mistaken 

 and consider me worthy of my name. 



A. Blockhead. 



A COMMODIOUS FARM BAKN. 



Messrs. Editors : — As I have been much pleased 

 with many of the plans for farm houses, and also 

 barns, laid down in your very excellent paper, I pro- 

 pose, knowing that it adds great beauty, as well as 

 comfort and convenience, to a farm to have a good 

 barn as well as a good dwelling house, to place at 

 your disposal the ground plan of a barn which I deem 

 very commodious, especially to we farmers, 



" Who hgil the mountain morning air 

 O'er verdant slopes arising." 



This plan, though somewhat similar to some in the 

 Farmer, is very unlike others, inasmuch as it does 

 not provide shelter for such qundru-bipeds as root or 

 scratch, as I think there will be rats enough, in 

 spite of you, to supply the vacancy occasioned by 

 the displacement of the small fowls. And if I should 

 be allowed my humble opinion, I would say that poul- 

 try of all kinds should have separate departments, 

 as the lice that infest the feathered tribes are often 

 very annoying to horses and cattle, besides they are 

 apt to haunt the granaries. 



To the end, then, that I may perhaps give one n8\y 

 idea, I place the following plan before your many 

 farmers, hoping that from the many plans laid down 

 in your excellent paper, some of us may be able to 

 make a "compound extract," or a perfect barn, as 

 there is nothing that I hate worse 



" Than long stories, and short ears of corn, 

 A costly farm house, and a shubby barn." 



MDIlMMlSSSm 



GKOUND PLAN OF BAIIN. 



Description. — This barn is 60 by 44 feet^ outside. 

 A, Threshing floor, 22 by 22 ; B, Grain or straw 

 room ; C, Oats room, 10 by 18 ; D, Stable with 

 stalls, 14 by 18 ; E, Reservatory for next year's plant- 

 ing seeds, 10 by 12 ; F, Workshop, with j)Ienty of 

 farming tools, 22 by 10 ; G, Open shed, with stalls 

 for milch cows, 35 by 10 ; H, Open shed for oxen or 

 colts, 25 by 10. 1, Cutting room, 14 by 4 ; 2, Wheat 

 garner, 5 by 10 ; 3, Passage ; 4, Depository for farni- 

 ing utensils ; 5, Grand entry, a, a, u, High win- 

 dows ; 6, h, b, Doors ; c, c, c, Feeding racks ; d, Pas- 

 sage by a rack. Over D, E, and 1, 2, 3, is a hay 

 mow, 22 by 24. 



This barn, if on sidling ground, may be raised, and 

 below serves for a sheep house. A Hoosier. — Har- 

 rodsburg, Lid., 1851. 



