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THE FARM. 



PLAN OF BASEMENT. 



the floor. The plan of tlio basement is sliowu at Fig. 2, a being a passatre 

 for the cows, and a drive-way for removing the manure; h, h, are the stalls 

 for the cows, of which there are fifty-two, having tlie feed-trough toward the 

 center, and all reached by an inner drive-way. There are six stalls, and a 



room at each end of the 

 stalls for harness. At e 

 is a place for stoiing 

 plows, carriages, wagons, 

 or machines. A drive- 

 way (f,f) passes through 

 the basement from east 

 to west. As many win- 

 dows as needed may be 

 biiilt in the wall. The 

 sills of the barn are laid 

 upon the wall, as already 

 mentioned; the posts are 

 28 feet high, and the 

 plates upon these sup- 

 port the rafters. The 

 plates are fastened to- 

 gether at the ends by be- 

 ing halved, and the cor- 

 ners fastened by half-inch 

 iron bolts, as shown at 

 Fig. 3. At each corner 

 is a brace of 8x8 timber, 

 bolted to and through the plates by three-quarter-inch bolts, and strength- 

 enad by an iron plate on the inside, through which the bolts pass. The 

 shoulders of the coi-ner rafters rest upon these braces and plates, as shown 

 at Fig. 4. These rafters are of 6x12 timber. Purlin plates of 8x10 inch tim- 

 ber arc bolted under the rafters, and are fastened together at the comers in^ 

 the same manner as the plates. The intermediate rafters rest npc^n these^ 

 pnrUns. Iron tic-rods may bo itsed to 

 strengthen the rafters and hold them to- 

 getlier, if thought necessary. Fig. 1 shows 

 the elevation, with a portion of the roof re- 

 moved to show the manner of laying the 

 rafters and bridging them. A crown rim is 

 lx)ltcd to the rafters at the point of the roof 

 — or, rather, the rafters are bolted to the 

 crown rim— whicli supports a cupola. The 

 cupola is fifty feet from the tloor of the barn, 

 the roof rising twenty-two feet, and the post 

 being twenty-eight feet high. The floor of fig. 3.— coknek joint. 

 the barn is laid upon beams, supported by no. 4.— cobneii brace. 



brick piers or timl.)er i:)ost8 in the basement. 



A lino of beams may be laid above the floor on eitlier side, above which 

 floore may be laid; the space thus made may be used for granaries, or stor- 

 age of farm tools or machines, or other cuml)rous property. 



Plan for a Barn—Wo present herewith a plan for a new and improved 

 baru. For coqvcuience, neatness of appearance, and practical utility, it wUJ 



