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bo found most excellent, and should any of our readers contemplate build- 

 ing, they would do well to give this article a careful study; and should they 

 not desire to follow out the plan to the letter, they might stiU be able to gain 

 from it some valuable hints in planning a bam of a different style. The fol- 

 lowing is the description of Ihe plan we have illustrated: 



A, stables, 8x28, for nine cows, earth floor; B, man's room; C, carriages; 

 D, harness room; E, meal 

 or shorts; F, shelled com; 

 G, oats; H, passage-way; I, 

 passage-way, 4 feet wide, 

 platform floor, with pump; 

 L, box for mixing feed; M, 

 stairs; N, O, stalls, 5 feet 

 wide; P, Q, R, stables, 6 

 feet %vide; S, feed-bin for 

 cattle; V, feed-box for 

 horses; W, wagon shed, 

 earth floor, 18x21; X, wagon 

 shod, open at south and 

 east, 9x17; Y, tool ro<jm, 

 9x10; Z, feed-bin; W, T, 

 water-trough. 



Mam bam, 30x42 feet; 

 }K>8t8, 18 feet in the clear; 

 shed wing, 26x30 feet; posts, 

 12 feet in clear; lean-to shed, 

 14 foet wide, 42 feet long — 

 all to have roof at one-third 

 angle of rise. 



There will be 230 feet in 

 length of wall under ground, 

 to be built of rough stone 1 

 f foot high and 18 inches thick. 

 UiK>n this is to be laid, in 

 courses, quarried stofie, in 

 blocks, not loss than 8x12 

 inches, 1 foot high and 1 

 foot thick, and all pointed. 

 There will be required 

 twelve piers, each 18 inches 

 square and 2 feet high; 

 these to be built of stone, 

 and four of them to have 

 ,the upper stone 12x18 

 inches. All to be laid in 

 good strong Ume mortar, 

 and in a workman-Uke and 

 substantial manner. There will Ijc required for sills 334 feet in length of 8x8 

 timber, and 42 feet in length, 6x8; this last for the siU in front of cones iu 

 lean-to shed. For posts, girts of main beams, plates, etc., etc., there mtII b«» 

 required 913 feet in length, of 6x6. For purlin beams, girts, etc., there will 

 be required 4M feet of length, 4x6; and for intcmiediate girts, bracva, etc.. 

 894 feet of length, of 3x4 stuff. The sides should all be of oak or white i)ino 



