fasten them with a hook or pin. The gates should 

 all open towards the door, four or five feet being 

 sufficient for a cow. The stable should be ten or 

 twelve feet deep. My stalile is built in this way 

 and I find no ineonTcnicncc, I winter from two 

 to six head. My wife or little boj^ as often put 

 up the cows as myself, and they like the plan. 



My gates are made as follows : I took a 3 by 4 

 pine scantling long enough to reach to the bars 

 above, making mortices to receive an incli board 

 up to the height of four feet ; put in the board 

 and confine tlie joints in like manner, but with 

 shorter scantling. j\Iade round tenons at the top 

 and bottom of the longest scantling to fit a two- 

 inch hole in the floor and above. John Johnson. 

 — Perry, Ven. Co., Pa. 



Barn and Cow Stable. — One of your corres- 

 pondents in the November number, wishes for a 

 plan of a hay barn a»d cow stable. I send you 

 a rough sketch of one I have used for twelve 

 years past, which answers my purposes tolerably 

 well. 



The barn is 33 ft. by 44 ft There is stabling 

 and cellar under the whole, and also a manure 

 cellar under the stabling. 



Plan A. — Upper Floor. — 1, Barn floor. 2, 

 Bays for hay. 3, Spaces 3 ft. wide and 3 ft. high, 

 with a lean-to roof partly under the bays for 

 shoving hay into the mangers. 4, Stairs that 

 lead to stables. 



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Plan B. — Lower Floor. — 5, Cows stables. 6, 

 Mangers. 7, Planks 9 in. wide covering a space 

 7 in. wide running the entire length of tlic sta- 



ble ; they turn up on hinges for shoving the 

 manure into the cellar below. 8, Stable for 

 calves, with small stanchions. 9, Stables for 

 oxen. 10, Stables for horses. 11, Cellar for roots, 

 (fee. 12, Doors. 13, Windows for ventilation. 

 14, Doorway under the stable, 10 ft. wide, for 

 hauling manure from the cellar. 



For a barn of this description, it is necessary 

 to have a side hill or ground somewhat descend- 

 ing. It need not be very steep, as we can rise 

 some to get to the barn floor, and we can 

 also rise in getting out of the manure cellar. 

 The manure cellar and stabling are built of stone, 

 making the Avails 14 ft. high, on which the barn 

 is set. 



In answer to your correspondent's considera- 

 tions, I would say : 



1. It is somewhat difficult to say how large a 

 barn should be to stable twenty cows and con- 

 tain their food. It would depend somewhat on 

 the kind of hay used. 



ti. I do not know of any more convenient mode 

 of storing the hay. Barns of the width of mine 

 should have middle or upper plates to support 

 the roof, and tliere should be posts on each side 

 of the barn floor going up to the \ipper plates. 

 The great beam sliould go near the top of the 

 posts or into the upper plates. This makes it 

 convenient in pitching off the hay. 



3. The cellar you can make larger or smaller, 

 so as to take in what roots, apples, pumpkins, 

 &c., you may wish to store. 



4. Tills is the most convenient way of feeding 

 cattle I know of Tlie hay is shoved off one side 

 the floor without the trouble of lifting. It falls 

 into a double manger and fodders twenty head 

 in the time it would take to feed ten any other 

 way. In the above plan forty head may be fed 

 from the barn floor. In- a double manger, cattle 

 eat coarse hay, straw, »te., much better than in 

 single mangers. 



5. The niftnure cellar is a good method of sav- 

 ing the liquid and solid excrements in one heap 

 without the extra expense of making tanks, &.C. 



6. I think stanchions are best for confining 

 cows. They should be at least three feet apart 



7. We have one barn half a mile from home. 

 Here tlie cows are turned out and watered night 

 and morning. The stables arc cleaned out in the 

 interval. The cows are kept shut up 22 out of 

 the 24 hours. We think they do as well and 

 better at this barn than where they lie out long- 

 er in the wind and on the snow. We shut up 

 our cows at all times when we milk them. IIou- 

 ACE lIuMi'miEY. — Wincliealer Centre, Ct. 



Plantino riEDGns. — In rog;ard to planting llcdfccs for 

 fence, I wish to inquiro, tlinniKli tlie Farmer, if it would 

 not bo advisable, cs|)ooially in fencing; luts containing tenor 

 Hflf en acres, to prepare a bed and sow the seed where it is 

 wauled fur llie hediro? And if so, what kind would you 

 prefer tci plant on dry sandy loam, to enclose say ten acres 

 intended for an orcha'rd V What time would be required? 

 And what would bo the probable cost? James D. liuSTUD. 

 Savannah, N. Y. 



SiiERP Disease.— Can you, or any of your valuable cor- 

 respondents, inform me wliclher there is such a disease 

 among sheep as Streicltes, and if so, a roiiicdy. 11. Nei;son. 

 — WdukesiM, Wis, 



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