242 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The plan of this barn is presented in the adjoining cut. 



The barn stands on a triangle at the junction of two streets, 

 the ends being nearly east and west, the sides north and south, 

 the land descending somewhat to the east. 



The scale of plate I. is that of forty feet to the inch. It 

 represents the first story, or manure cellar, seventy feet by 

 fifty-seven, the walls being laid in solid masonry, with a floor 

 laid with split stone, inlaid with cement and mortar, a a, doors 

 to the cellar, fourteen feet wide. The door on the north side 

 is kept closed in winter. Spaces d and 30 by 42, are filled 

 up by an embankment of earth, e 26 6 represents a wall 

 embankment, with a post at the end. Another embankment is 

 seen at e 36 6. There is a gradual ascent over these em- 

 bankments to the doors entering into the linto for the cows. 

 There is a slight ascent also from a to the dotted line, 

 representing Elm Street, north of the barn, and also from a 

 through the yard, and out at 12 into Adams Street, on the south 

 side of the building, c is an aqueduct of running water from 

 a mill stream, and supplying water in the yard. // b is the 

 foundation at the west end of the barn, built of solid stone 

 masonry ; the walls on the sides, being thirty-five feet, sixteen 

 feet, and ten feet, are bank face walls, with posts at the end, 

 filled in and graded so as to give a gentle ascent over it into 

 the third story, where all hay, &c, is unloaded. 



Plate II. The second story is drawn on a scale of twenty 

 feet to an inch, too small be well understood, m, shed, open 

 for carts and wagons to remain under cover, thirty by fifteen. 

 I I I I I I, bins for vegetables to be filled through scuttles from 

 the floor of the third story. It is surrounded by solid walls. 

 The area of this whole floor equals one hundred feet by fifty- 

 seven, k, open space, and nearly on a level with the cow 

 chamber, through the door p. s, stairs to third story and to 

 the cellar, d d d, passage next to the walls, five feet wide 

 and nine inches above the dung pit. c e c, dung pit, two feet 

 wide, and seven inches below the floor where the cattle stand. 

 The manure drops from this pit into the cellar below, five feet 

 from the walls, and quite round the cellar, c c c, plank floor 

 for cows, four feet six inches long, b b b, stalls for three 

 yoke of oxen on a platform five feet six inches long, n n, calf 



