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All the doors in this stable slide upon iron rollers running upon a piece of plain bar 

 iron above the door. These iron rollers are attached firmly to the door by iron straps ; 

 and the door, being thus suspended, not only runs much more easily and freely than if 

 the track were at the bottom, as is usually the case, but the track is not liable to get 

 clogged by dust or other matters falling upon the floor. Besides this, a sliding door in 

 a stable, when opened, gives the largest possible egress in a given space, and can never 

 stand in the way to the injury of horses or carriages 

 passing in or out on either side. 



The high roof of this building gives a good deal 

 of room in the hay loft, and the ventilation on the 

 top keeps this space cool and airy at all seasons. 

 The whole is built of wood, the vertical boarding 

 battened in the ordinary manner." 



The plan is excellent for the place for Avhich it 

 was designed — a suburban residence — though the 

 farmer may think it altogether too limited and too 

 expensive for his purpose. 



We have just received plans of fi barn to be 

 erected at Great Barrington, Mass., for Daviu 

 Leavitt, Esq. It is to be called " Cascade Barn^'' 

 and was designed by J. Wilkinson, late principal 

 of the Mount Airy Agricultural Institute, Penn. 

 The estimated cost is $10,000. The material of 

 the building is to be wood, except the lower story 

 on both sides and the second story on one side, 

 which is to be stone. There is a mill stream run- 

 ning through the farm, and the buildings will be so 

 arranged that all the machinery can be worked by 

 an over-shot water wheel of twenty horse-power, 

 placed in the basement. Being on a side-hill, the 

 building is so arranged that there is a carriage 

 drive into each of the three stories. 



African Wheat. — We have received from Mr. 

 Adam S. Killman, Pelham, C. W., sixty-nine heads 

 of African wheat, said to have been all produced 

 from one grain. The ears are rather small, but 

 well filled. The accompanying engraving, taken 

 from one of the sixty-nine ears sent us, will give an 

 idea of the distinctive character of this variety. 

 We are not sufliciently acquainted with the wheat 

 to recommend it to our readers as a superior article. 

 We believe that it is grown to some extent in the 

 township of Pelham, and gives great satisfaction. 

 Mr. PtOBERT G. Killman obtained the first prize for 

 the best two bushels of clean wheat, at the Pelham 

 show ; it was African wheat, and weighed 654- lbs. 

 per bushel. Mr. Killman has experimented con- 

 siderably in raising new varieties of wheat. He 

 once obtained ninety-six bushels of white wheat 

 from one head in three years. He thinks the 

 African wheat the best he ever saw. 



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