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For more extensive premises than a single village lot, it is some- 

 times considered desirable to have an open shed and yard adjoining 

 the barn. Figure 36 shows a bam and shed, designed by Mrs. M. L. 

 Knowles, of Orchard Hill Stock Farm, Michigan. The barn is 

 eighteen by thirty-nine feet. On the ground floor, figure 37, are 

 a box-stall twelve feet square, and an open stall six by twelve feet. 

 In the rear of these stalls is the floor for grooming and harnessing, 

 with harness-closet and stairway, beneath the latter of which are 

 bins for grain. A door at the foot of the stairs opens into the ma- 



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nure shed, from which there is an outer door into the garden. 

 Double doors open from the main floor into the yard. Beyond the 

 floor is the carriage room, away from the stalls, where no fumes of 

 ammonia can reach the vehicles to corrode the leather-work, and fill 

 the upholsteiy with stable odors. Wide double doors open from this 

 floor into an open shed, which extends entirely across one end of 

 the yard. The box-stall is provided with a hay shute in one corner, 

 and a feed box in the other. The door is divided horizontally in the 

 middle, and each half provided with hangings and fastenings, so 

 that the upper half can be left open, when desired, for ventila- 

 tion. The open stall is of ample width to allow a horse to lie down 

 in it, and is also provided with a feed box and a manger, to which 

 the hay is supplied by means of a shute from the loft. The open 



