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It seems to the Committee that a simple building, about 

 forty feet wide, and of such length as is required, with a drive- 

 way from one end to the other, is the most convenient design 

 yet adopted. With this plan, the cattle may be furnished with 

 roomy stalls, and they may stand near the hay. Room is fur- 

 nished for closets, stables, &c., in convenient localities. The 

 space over the drive-way can be occupied with a moveable 

 scaffold if desired. The building can easily be aired ; and 

 the frame of such a building can be constructed with ease and 

 economy. Under such a building the cellar can be properly 

 arranged so as to accommodate the design of the room above, 

 whether it be for cattle or horses, or for the easy storing of 

 roots ; a cellar being, in the minds of the Committee, as im- 

 portant to a well-ordered barn as to a house. 



These views governed the Committee in their choice of a 

 plan for the building. They proposed to have a cellar easy of 

 access for teams ; convenient for making manure ; and provided 

 with a root cellar, into which roots can be tipped from the cart 

 through a trap-door in the passage-way of the barn, and the 

 labor of carrying in baskets be thus avoided. They en- 

 deavored to divide the space in the barn into comfortable 

 arrangements for the cattle and horses, and convenient places 

 for the hay, straw, &c. And they endeavored, also, to erect a 

 building which would be pleasing to the eye. 



The sketch on page 160, drawn by Mr. Emmerton, of the 

 firm of Foster & Emmerton, architects, Salem, Mass., will 

 give an idea of the appearance of the building. 



The cellar, which was built by N. W. Brown, the tenant of 

 the farm, extends under the entire building. It has a wide 

 opening under the front long side of the barn, and a narrow 

 one in the rear north-west corner, for the convenience of the_ 

 fields lying in that direction. It is seven and a half feet in 

 depth ; has a substantial wall ; and a small portion of it in the 

 south-west corner is set apart for a root cellar. 



The stalls for the horses are located in the two bands on the 

 left of the front doors. They are provided with a passage- 



