152 DESCRIPTION OF PLAN. 



This cow-room may be furnished with a thermom- 

 eter, clock, etc., and should always be well ventilated 

 by sliding windows, which at the same time admit the 

 light. 



Fig. 67. 



Fig. 57 is a transverse section of the cow-room, Fig. 

 56, a being a walk behind the cows, five feet wide ; 

 b, dung-pit ; c, cattle-stand ; d, feeding-trough, with a 

 bottom on a level with the platform where the cattle 

 stand ; k, open area, forty-three feet by fifty-six. 



The story above the cow-room, Fig. 58, is one hun- 

 dred feet by forty-two, the bays for hay, ten on each 

 side, being ten feet front and fifteen feet deep, and the 

 open space, p, for the entrance of wagons, carts, etc., 

 twelve feet wide. b, hay-scales, c, scale-beam, m mm 

 m mm, ladders reaching almost to the roof. Ill, &c., 

 scuttle-holes for sending vegetables direct to the bins, 

 III, etc., 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, etc. jjj, bins for fruit. &, scuttles to put apples 

 into wagons, etc., in the shed below. One side of 

 this tool-house may be used for ploughs and large 

 implements, hay-rigging, harrows, etc. 



