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pens, r r, feeding troughs for calves. The feeding boxes arc 

 made in the form of trays, with partitions between them, and 

 each animal has its water constantly before it. The water 

 is brought from a well, at a distance of eight hundred feet, 

 by a lead pipe to cistern a. This cistern is regulated by 

 a cock and ball, and the water flows by dotted lines o o o to 

 the boxes, and each box is connected by lead pipes well se- 

 cured from frost. /, scuttle by which sweepings, &c, may be 

 put through into the cellar, g is a bin receiving cut hay from 

 third story, or hay room, h h h h h h, bins for grain feed, i is 

 a tunnel to conduct manure or muck from the hay floor to the 

 cellar, j j, sliding doors on wheels. 



Plate III. The third story floor is one hundred feet by forty- 

 two, the bays for hay, ten on each side, being ten feet front and 

 fifteen feet deep, and the open space for the entrace of wagons, 

 carts, &c, twelve feet wide, b, hay scales, c, scale beam. 

 m m m in in m, ladders reaching almost to the roof. I, scut- 

 tle holes for sending vegetables direct to the bins III, Sfc, 

 below, a a b b, rooms on the corners for storage, d, scuttles, 

 four of which are used for straw, one for cut hay, and one for 

 muck for the cellar, n and the other small squares are eighteen 

 feet posts. /, passage to the tool house, a room one hundred 

 feet long by fifteen wide, o, stairs leading to the scaffold 

 in the roof of the tool house, i i, benches, g, floor, h, 

 boxes for hoes, shovels, spades, picks, iron bars, old iron, <fec. 

 j j j, bins for fruit, k, scuttles to put apples into wagons, &c, 

 in the shed below. On one side of this tool house are put 

 ploughs and large implements, hay rigging, harrows, &c. 



Plate IV. Front, or view of the west end, in which a small 

 chimney is seen on the roof leading up from the vegetable cellar 

 below, a, window, b b, windows, c, door entrance, d, en- 

 trance to tool house. All the doors to the barn slide on rollers. 



Plate V. On the north side of the barn are seen windows, 

 doorway, &c. The stone work which is seen at the west end 

 on the second story should have been placed fifteen feet farther 

 back under the barn. The space which seems to be occupied 

 by it is the shed for the housing of carts, &c. The ventilator 

 contains on the top a lightning rod, points of the compass, 

 and weather vane designed to imitate a Devon ox. 



