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THE FAltM. 



Hanging Barn Doors on. Rollers. — The great convenience of Hlidlug 

 or rolling doors on the farm outbuildings is well known, and as every 

 farmer with a little ingenuity can construct them himself, there is no reason 

 why they should not be generally adojjted. Our illustration. Fig. 1, repre- 

 sents the sliding doors, comijleted, as applied to the bam; Fig. 2, the man- 

 ner of applying the rollers to the doors and track. The rollers, track and 

 other tiiujLUiings may be obtained at any hardware store. The track is first 



^j2 securely fastened to the edge 

 of an inch or two-inch board, 

 about four or five inches wide. 

 This is then firmly nailed or 

 spiked to the building, parallel 

 to and even with the top of the 

 doorway, and should extend 

 the width of the door on each 

 side. In order that the doors 

 may run easily, the track 

 should be laid as level aa 

 possible, and upon one board. 

 The manner of fastening the 

 rollers of the doors is clearly 

 shown in the engraving Fig. 2. The doors are placed upon the tracks at the 

 ends of the latter, and are prevented from I'uuniug ofl' by placing a block at 

 the end of the track or upon the aide of the door. The track should be pro- 

 tected from the weather by some kind of covering. Two narrow boards 

 nailed together similar to an eaves-trough, and fastened to the building 

 above the track and rollers, form the best kind of protection from snow or 

 rain. 



Al'I'EAlUNCE A|-ri:U COMPI.F.TION. 



Model Carriage-House and Stable 



on the following page, shows 

 doors of the rectangular, car- 

 riage-house portion of the 

 building; also door to liay- 

 loft. The caniage-houso 

 doors are folding, and open 

 outward, as they can be made 

 closer when hung on hinges 

 than when hung on rollers; 

 and as it is desirable that all 

 doors and windows should 

 bo as close as practicable, 

 that they may not afl'ect the 



-Our engraving of the elevation, 



FIG. 2.— MANNER OF APPL^aNG THF. ROLT.ERS. 



ventilation, the ingress of which is provided for by a subterraneous air duct, 

 seen at A, in the ground plan. 



The posts are sixteen feet in length; the ceiling of the stable is nine feet 

 in the clear, with storage in the loft for twelve tons of hay. 



The oat bin is a cylinder of one hundred bushels capacity, around which 

 circular stairs are built. Its location could not be more convenient, as six 

 horses can be fed grain with walking but fourteen feet, on account of the aix 

 stalls being with the head end around a semicircle of sixteen feet diameter. 

 This circular area is open to the cupola, and being su])i)li<'d with air through 

 the flo«r, under the utairs, and the animals all breathing into a common ceu- 



