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Stock 111 the leaiito, it being on a level with said lloor, and for 

 unloading muck or loam through scuttles into the cellar be- 

 neath. The hay and fodder are all unloaded from the upper 

 drive way or floor, into bags on either side, both of which are 

 seventy-five feet long by fourteen wide. One is twenty-six 

 feet deep and the other eighteen ; the leanto being under the 

 last, fourteen feet wide, and running the entire length of the 

 barn, is fitted to tie up sixteen cows, and six oxen, and is light- 

 ed by five glass windows, having a shelf eighteen inches 

 wide, and three feet from the floor to protect the windows, and 

 for setting pails while milking. The manure from the leanto 

 is deposited in the cellar, which is under the whole barn, nine 

 feet deep, and open to the south fifty feet, and the cellar wall 

 is from one and a half to three feet thick, mostly laid in mortar. 



The frame of the barn is of chestnut timber entire, except 

 the rafters, which are spruce. The body of the barn, except eight 

 feet of the basement, is covered with pine boards twelve inches 

 wide, placed four inches apart, and the intervening space cov- 

 ered with boards eight inches wide, and one and a half inches 

 thick, thus making a tight finish externally, and upon the inside 

 a space for the free circulation of air, which I deem of great 

 importance for the better preservation of the hay. The base- 

 ment story is covered with matched boards, grooved and paint- 

 ed upon the surface with the Ohio fire-proof cemeftt, so called, 

 and sanded to imitate freestone. The remainder above is paint- 

 ed with lead and oil. The roof is slated, and there is a cupo- 

 la in the centre twelve feet square, and sixteen high, with a 

 window on each side, to open when necessary to ventilate the 

 barn. 



I also erected last year a building fifty by fifteen feet, for 

 tool house, work shop, (fee, adjoining the south west corner 

 of the barn, with abasement story eight feet high, the bottom 

 of which is on a level with the lower story of the barn, having 

 a heavy stone wall on one side and one end, the other side be- 

 ing open to the barn yard, for the access of the cattle to the 

 watering trough, which is supplied by a lead pipe, seventy- 

 three feet to a fountain, and made to receive the water of two 

 under-drains which I have laid for the purpose of draining the 



