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around it, except on the back side. It is now likely to tumble 

 down, and I must repair it, or build a new one. 



I have heard some discussion upon this matter of barns. It 

 is a very difficult thing for people to agree upon. A man may 

 think that if his barn suits him, it is no matter whether it suits 

 anybody else ; but this ought to be a barn to suit a great num- 

 ber. A barn ought to be proportioned to what is to be put into 

 it. There is no use in building a barn for more hay than you 

 can put cattle in to eat it, for I don't believe in keeping cattle 

 out of doors and feeding out of doors. 



The plan of this barn is very good. It is just like the one I 

 talk of building, only it is wider. You may, by adopting the 

 principle that Dr. Loring has laid down, cover your floor from 

 the scaffolding up ; you may keep two stables, and there may be 

 hay enough, if you fill the barn, to carry the cattle through. 



Mr. Stone, of Dedham. I was unfortunate, or fortunate, 

 enough to buy an old farm encumbered with old buildings. 

 Among them was an old barn 33x50. I had not the time, 

 neither had I the means, that I wished to appropriate to that 

 purpose, to tear down the old barn and build a new one, although 

 I have since repeatedly wished that I had done so. I believe it 

 would have been much cheaper. The ground elevation of this 

 barn reminded me of that old building. There was a partial 

 cellar under the barn, and it had a long shed attached to it, of 

 no earthly use to anybody. I tore that entirely away, raised up 

 this old barn, and added thirty feet in length, which leaves it 

 80x33. It is a small affair, as you understand. Entertaining 

 the opinion that the odors from the manure-cellar, and the pres- 

 ence t)f cattle, added nothing to the sweetness of the hay, I made 

 this new part that I added to the old barn a stable for my cattle. 

 On the scaffold over my cattle-stalls, in this new part, I calculate 

 to store my litter, corn-stalks, and anything I am going to use 

 up at once, and don't care much about. I have taken away the 

 cattle-stalls from the old barn, and made a bay, which gives me 

 plenty of storage room. I left in the end of the old barn, as a 

 partition between the old barn and the new, wishing to divide 

 my cattle-stable as much as I possibly could from the old barn, 

 believing, as I did, that the breath of cattle, with the steam 

 arising from the manure-cellar, would be no benefit to the hay 

 that I had collected there so carefully to feed my cattle through 



