BARNS AKB STABLES. 



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shed is not designed as a receptacle of broken-down wheel-barrows, 

 wrecked wagons, garden rubbish, or a roost for poultry, but is to be 

 kept in good order for the horse to run under, when the weather is too 

 inclement for long exposure in the yard. 



The accompanying illustrations show a barn elegant in appear- 

 ance, convenient and useful. As will be seen by the perspective 

 view, figure 38, it has a hip roof with gables on the front and each 

 end, and is surmounted by a cupola. The main structure is forty- 

 four feet long by thirty wide, with sixteen-foot posts ; the " annex" 

 is sixteen feet by thirty, making a total frontage of sixty feet. The 

 main part stands upon stone piers which raise the floor two feet 

 above the gi-ound. The floor of the carriage and tool house is flat on 



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WAGON SHED 



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Fig. 39.— GROUND PLAN. 



the ground, and may be paved or constructed of concrete, asphaltum, 

 or coal-tar and gravel. Figure 39 shows the ground plan. A driveway 

 fourteen feet wide extends entirely across the middle of the main 

 part, with six open stalls on one side, and on the other are two box 

 stalls, a harness closet, and bins for oats and feed. A large window 

 in the end and two smaller ones on each side furnish ample light 

 and ventilation for the stalls. All these windows may be removed 

 in summer and the openings covered with gauze to exclude flies. 

 Feed passages are provided at the heads of the open stalls, which 

 give access to the mangers and racks. The doors are each five feet 

 wide and ten feet high. A passageway six feet wide extends through 

 the entire length of the barn, with an inclined platform down to the 



