PREMIUM BARN. 



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cog-wheel is placed near the upper end of the shaft, 

 over the horses, with segments of iron cogs on its 

 upper side, which play into the cogs of a small wheel 

 or pinion, on a line of shaft which runs across the 

 main floor and through the opposite aiea. On this 

 line of shaft are placed drums or pnllics, of suitable 

 size to carry the various machiiiery which may be 

 attached. Next to the end of the barn, at the en- 

 trance front, is a passage on cither side, 4 feet wide, 

 Iea<ling to the stableis hereafter described. The 

 horse-power and truck occupies 18 feet beyond, on 

 its own side; and next to that, beyond, is a flight of 

 staiis leading up to the granary and store room, 

 whicli extends over the horse track and passage be- 

 fore described, and 8 feet above the floor, being 22 

 by IS feet, and as high as the demand for storage 

 may require, if up to the plate; or, this granary or 

 storeroom may be dispensed with, and the room oc 

 cupied for hay or grain in sheaf storage purposes, 

 like that ovgr the machinery, on the opposite side. 

 In such case, the stairs will not be necessary, and the 

 room occupied by them may go into the bay. The 

 balance of the room on each side of the floor is de- 

 voted to bays for hay and grain, being 18 feet wide, 

 and extending 71 feet, to within i feet of the further 

 end, which is reserved on each side for a passage to 

 the stables. These passages should be eight feet 

 high, and over them the hay or grain may be extend- 

 ed from the main bays. On each side the main floor, 

 and ten feet above it, from post to post, should be 

 extended, and framed in a line of girts, on which, 

 when the bays are filled, poles may be laid over and 

 across the floor, resting upon the girts, and on the 

 poles loose boards or slabs, by way of scaffold to re- 

 ceive other hay and grain which the bays will not 

 hold. In this manner, taken in in sections over the 

 floor, the forage may be piled to the peak of the roof, 

 thus holding quite as much as one of the bays. 

 Stored in this manner, the barn will hold over 100 

 tons of hay, after deducting the large areas for the 

 granary, horse-power, and machinery. The inner 

 posts and beams are marked in the elevation of the 

 plan, so as to be seen. 



In the plan submitted, the barn stands 4 feet above 

 the ground. The purpose of this U two-fold: if the 

 underground room is wanted for stabling stock of 

 any kind, an excavation of 3 to 4 feet will give am- 

 ple mom for that purpose, and permit the stables to 

 be light and dry — two indispensable requisites for the 

 •health and proper keeping of stock. If not required 

 for stabling, the bays can drop near to the ground, 

 thus giving a large additional quantity of storage for 

 hay; or, if preferred, the earth may be excavated to 

 a sufBcient depth beneath the proposed space to ac- 

 commodate it, and the horse-power be stationed be- 

 low; thus saving for storage the room occupied by 

 a on the main floor. In such disposition of it, how- 

 ever, a driver would be necessary with the horses be- 

 low, as they would be out of sight of the men at 

 work above; whereas, in ordinary labor, with but a 

 single horse, or two, at work, a driver for such work 

 alone would not be necessary. Another object in 

 placing the floor of the barn so high is that the sta- 

 bles which ai'e attached to it may have storage lofts 

 over the cattle, with a sufficient slope of roof Still, 

 the barn may be set within 2 feet of the ground, and 



the stables be as they now are, in height of posts 

 and storage room, if the barn posts be carried up 

 3 feet higher — 21 feet instead of 18; or, the outside 

 stable posts may be shortened, so as to give sufficient 

 pitch to the roof; but this will cut short the loft 

 room over them. A consideration of all these will 

 conuiiend itself to the circumstances of the farm and 

 its proprietor. 



On each side, adjoining the barn, is a line of sta- 

 bles, IG feet wide, dropping three feet below the sills 

 of the barn, and standing one foot above the ground. 

 The posts of the stables are 12 feet high; the roof 

 has a quarter or 8 feet pitch. One foot below the 

 plates of the barn, and parallel with them, a girt is 

 framed from post to post its whole length, as a sup- 



