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THE FAMILY HORSE. 



figure 30, has a carriage floor with a flight of stairs to the hay-loft. 

 Beneath the stairs is a closet for harness. The lean-to has a box- 

 stall ten by twelve feet, with a passage giving access to the oat-bin 

 and hay-rack. The barn is enclosed in vertical boarding, with three- 

 inch battens. The roof is shingled. A barn of this size and style 

 can be built in good substantial manner for three hundred dollars. 

 There are many advantages in the octagon form for a barn, as 

 will be seen by the accompanying illustrations, showing a barn which, 

 like the preceding one, is of dimensions to admit of its being placed 

 upon a lot only twenty-five feet wide. Figure 31 gives a perspective 

 view; figure 32 shows the floor plan, and figure 33 one-half the roof 

 plan. The barn is twenty-four feet in diameter from side to side, 

 each one of the eight sides being ten feet wide. The posts are six- 

 teen feet high ; the first floor nine feet in the clear ; the loft six 





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Fig. 30.— GROUNI) FLAN OF BAKN. 



feet to top of plates, and twenty feet to the apex of the roof. A 

 hay door directly over the main entrance to the barn affords means 

 for filling the loft. The first fioor is divided through the center by 

 a partition, upon one side of which are a box stall, nine by twelve 

 feet, an open stall five and a half feet wide, and a passage way. 

 The other half is occupied by a carriage floor eighteen feet long, at 

 one end of which is the harness closet, and at the other a flight of 

 stairs leading to the loft. Opening out of the harness closet is a 

 granary, and a capacious bin for oats or other feed is under the 

 stairs. The box stall is entered by a sliding door from the open stall, 

 and also by a swing-door from the carriage floor. The latter door is 

 divided horizontally a little above the middle, so that the upper part 

 may be left open, when desired, for ventilation. The lower part is 

 fastened, when closed, with_ a latch, the upper portion by a bolt, and 

 the two may be firmly couj)led by two hooks and staples. In the i-ear 



