PROF. WILKINSON'S PLAN. 47 



building which Mr. W. presented drawings for was 103 X 40 

 feet, in the plan. It was arranged with a basement and one 

 story, adapted to a hillside site, with a southern aspect. The 

 height of basement 8 feet in the clear ; the posts of the principal 

 story 20 feet in height. 



The basement room is devoted to cattle stables for thirty head, 

 eight horses, a farm and market vehicle, and implement room, 

 38 feet 6 inches X 18 feet, and a feeding passage 16 X 38 feet 

 6 inches, which is under the main driveway on principal floor, 

 and another feeding passage 5 feet 3 inches X 38 feet 6 inches. 



The lines of stalls for animals run transversely in the build- 

 ing, and two lines of stalls head to each passage. 



The feeding passage, 16 feet in width, under the driveway, 

 would be unnecessarily wide for the purpose of a feeding pas- 

 sage alone, but a large portion of it is occupied by a hanging 

 granary of eighteen hundred bushels' capacity, which is sus- 

 pended to the driveway floor-joist, is filled through trap-doors in 

 the driveway floor, and the grain is drawn out by slides below. 

 Mr. W. claims tliat the granary, thus suspended, is rat-proof, 

 and that the space required for it costs less in this position than 

 in any other in the building, is more conveniently filled and 

 emptied, and is more conveniently located for feeding from 

 these than elsewhere. 



The cellar for storing roots and cooking food for the stock, 

 and the engine-room, if an engine is used, is made by arching 

 vaults in the bank on the north of the basement, to which it 

 opens through the foundation wall. The root-cellar is separated 

 from the engine-room by a wall, as also is the boiler and cook- 

 ing apparatus from the engine. 



The roof of these vaults consists of two arches extending at 

 right angles with the north foundation wall of the building, the 

 base of each arch resting on a party-wall, through which are 

 doorways connecting the vaults. 



The vaults are filled and lighted through the arch. The 

 smoke-flue is laid in the ground some one hundred feet from 

 the north end of the boiler-vault, where it connects with a ver- 

 tical smoke-stack, thus providing thorough protection from fire. 

 This position for the root-vault is a very convenient one for 

 storing away the roots, as the trap-doors in the arch may be 

 reached by the carts in open grounds, and the roots be dumped 



