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on our plan, it is designed only for horses and cattle ; but one 

 end of the cellar can be conveniently arranged for sheep, pigs, 

 and poultry, or a wing can be attached at right angles with the 

 main building, in which additional stock can be kept. The 

 building is designed to run east and west, and the principal 

 stabling is on the south side, as we consider the vitalizing influ- 

 ence of sunshine of the utmost importance to beast as well as 

 to man. Good air we deem as essential as good food, and this 

 is secured by ventilators from the stables both in the basement 

 and main floor. For the minute details, reference may be had 

 to the plan of the architect, C. T. Rathbun, Esq., of Pittsfield. 

 Perhaps we ought to add that the main floor is marked out as 

 13 feet wide, and that the main stable, which runs the whole 

 length of the south side of the main floor, is fifteen feet wide, 

 and is arranged for stanchions, with a manger in front of 21 feet 

 in width ; a platform for the cattle to stand upon of 4|- feet ; a 

 gutter in the rear 2 feet wide, furnished with trap-doors, to let 

 the manure into the cellar ; and a platform of some five feet in 

 width in the rear of the gutter, which serves for a walk. 

 Shutes are also arranged on the sides of the main floor for 

 pitching hay to the stables in the cellar, and for dumping roots 

 of various kinds into their appropriate bins. Steaming appa- 

 ratus can also be arranged in the cellar for steaming roots, hay, 

 and stalks, but for this no space has been marked out. If there 

 are any suggestions in the plan submitted which will recom- 

 mend themselves to the Board, or be of service to the trustees 

 and to the farmers generally in the State, we shall feel that our 

 labor has not been in vain. 



Respectfully submitted, 



• Alexander Hyde, Chairman of Committee. 



John B. Moore, of Concord. I agree with the outlines of 

 the barn, but I do not like the interior arrangements at all. I 

 will tell you why. The entrance to the cellar, as you see, 

 [pointing to the plan] is on the side, and before spring the 

 manure would block up the passage so that there would be no 

 access to the wagon and tool-room. Then, I think the cellar is 

 no place for a tool-room, because the tools will rust, and it is 

 inconvenient to have to go down cellar to get your tools to work 



