CHAPTER XIX 
FRIED PORK 
I HAD given Nelson this sketch as a guide in 
working out the plan for the cow barn: Length 
over all, 130 feet; width, 40 feet. This parallelo- 
gram was to be divided lengthwise into three 
equal spaces, one in the centre for a driveway, 
and one on each side for the cow platforms and 
feeding mangers. Twenty feet at the west end 
of the barn was partitioned off, one corner for a 
small granary, the other for a kitchen in which 
the food was to be prepared. These rooms were 
each thirteen feet by twenty. At the other end 
of the building, ten feet on each side was given 
over to hospital purposes, —a lying-in ward ten 
feet by thirteen being on each side of the drive- 
way. 
The foundation for this building was to be of 
stone, and the entire floor of cement; and the 
walls were to be sealed within and sheeted with- 
out, and then covered with ship lap boards, mak- 
ing three thicknesses of boards. It was to be 
one story high. An east-and-west passage, cut- 
ting the main drive at right angles, divided the 
barn at its middle. At the south end of this 
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