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•isterne, if connected by an underground pipe, may be all drawn from by % 

 Bingle pump if necessary. 



The floor of tlie main bam is three feet higher than that of the stables. 

 This will allow a cellar under it, if desired— or a deeper extension of the 

 bays— and it allows storage lofts over the cattle, with sufficient slope of 

 roof. A short flight of steps at the ends of each passage, admits easy access 

 from the level of the barn floor. 



The sheds, which extend on the three sides of the bam, and touch it at 

 the rear end, are on a level with the stables. An inclined plane, from the 

 main floor through the middle of the back shed, forms a rear egress for 

 wagons and carts, descending three feet from the floor. The two rooms, 

 one on each side of this rear passage, 16 by 34 feet, may be used for housing 

 sick animals, cows about to calve, or any other purpose required. The sta- 

 bles at the front ends of the sheds arc convenient for teams of horses or oxen, 

 or they may be fitted for wagon houses, tool houses, or other purposes. The 

 rooms, 16 feet square at the inner comers of the sheds, may be used for 

 weak ewes, lambs, or for a bull stable. 



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or yonag cattle, and yards may bo built adjoining, on the rear, six or eight 

 in number, into which they may run and bo kept separate. Barred parti- 

 tions may separate the different flocks. Bars may also enclose the opening 

 in front, or they may, if required, bo boarded up tight. Step ladders are 

 placed at convenient intervals, for ascending the shed lofts. 



A granary over tho machine room is entered by a flight of stairs. Poles 

 extending from bay to bay, over the floor, will admit tho storage of much 

 additional hay or grain. 



A Convenient Barn._A recent inquiry about how to build a b.arn, 

 writes a correspondent of an agricultural periodical, tempts me to di'scribo 

 mine, wliicli I tliink very handy. My barn is situated on a side hill with an 

 incline of about seven feet in forty to the west. There is a bridge at each 

 end for a driveway, only one of which is shown in our illustration", Fig. 1. 



On tlio riglit, us you enter the main door, the bays extend down to tlio 

 ground nine feet. Under the main floorway T keep my sheep. Under tho 

 bridge eacli end is open, to give the, sheep plenty ()f light -and air, as it will 

 not do to keep them too warm. In stormy wcatlier I clo^e the doore. On 



