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with. It is no place to store ploughs. I don't know how you 

 are going to get them down there. You cannot get them down 

 there without carrying them down stairs. 



I see the necessity of having room to store hay, hut my idea 

 would he not to have any cattle stalls in the cellar, and to 

 have some way of getting into the store-room without going 

 over the manure. If I wanted more room to tie cattle, I would 

 take this, which purports to he a haymow, and use it for these 

 cattle pens. 



In the discussion which we had here last winter, a good deal 

 was said about root cellars, and I believe Mr. Stockbridge found 

 a great deal of fault about going down cellar to get roots, and 

 thougiit they ought to be on a level with the barn floor. I do 

 not think that is so objectionable as Mr. Stockbridge does, 

 because the roots can be sent up by an elevator ; but if that is 

 really an objection, and there isn't room enough for hay, I would 

 get over it in this way : I would make the posts eight feet higher, 

 and use the whole cellar for manure ; I would put the cattle 

 and the box-stalls on this floor ; I would make the entrance to 

 the barn within four feet of the plates, and thereby do away with 

 the use of the horse pitchfork to a great extent, if not entirely. 



I think no barn should be put up by the trustees of the 

 Agricultural College that cannot be copied by the farmers of 

 the State. It should be put up in an inexpensive manner, and 

 should be such a barn as a farmer could build who expected to 

 make money out of his operations. That is such a barn as I 

 want to see built. The general outlines of this plan come up 

 to my idea, but the interior arrangements and the entrance I 

 do not like. Otherwise, I should endorse the plan. I agree 

 with Mr. Hyde, that but very few farmers are of the same 

 opinion in regard to a barn. 



The President called on Dr. Loriug to give his views of the 

 proposed structure. 



Dr. George B. Loring, of Salem. I have had no opportunity 

 to see the plan of the barn which Mr. Hyde has presented, and 

 none to read the report ; and while I agree with my friend Mr. 

 Moore, that it could be improved upon, I do not think I should 

 go to work to improve upon it precisely as he would. 



I agree entirely in the objections which Mr. Moore has made 

 to the cellar. I think a barn cellar is not a good place to keep 



