1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAIuVIER. 



63 



For the New England Farmer, 

 A CONVEJMIENT FASMEK'S EAKHiT. 

 In compliance with your request that some 

 of us, practical farmers, who have barns that 

 we think are about right, would furnish you 

 plans of their arrangement and descriptions 

 of their construction, we send you the follow- 

 ing sketch of one that we have built during 

 the past season, and which we are now using 

 with the most perfect satisfaction. The barn 

 is 75 feet long and 40 feet wide. The fol- 

 lowing is the plan of 



THE BASEMENT. 



West. 



East. 



Explanation of Plan of Basement,— TSo. 1 is a room 

 ■for poultry, 11x15 feet, fitted up with roosts, nests, &c. ; 

 No. 2, stair Wivy 3 feet wide ; No. 3, feeding place, 

 llxl7>i feet, including stairs; No. 4, pen for calves and 

 for mjir'ure thrown from the cow stable ; No. 5 is the 

 cow Kt.ihle, 12x15 feet; No. 6 passsgo way, 3>^ feet 

 wide ; No, 7, pen for hogs in front and for the manure 

 from hor.ro stable, 7>ixll!-i; No. 8, horse stalls— the 

 boree crib Is 2 feet wide at bottom, 2>^ at top, 2 deep 

 and 1 foot from floor, made of maple plank; No. 9, har- 

 Eessroom; No. 10, stairs, 3 feet wide; No. 11, hospi- 

 tal, or spare pen for colt, sheep or other animal, 12x12 

 feet. The place for door« is shown by d ; wt indicates 

 location of water troughs; w, windows. 



Here all our stock are kept. It is all above 

 srround and is eight feet high. The first two 

 feet are stone wall, on which rests the frame, 

 except under the big doors, where the wall 

 extends to the floor. The posts of the barn ^ 

 are 20 feet in length, extending 6 feet into the 

 basement, and 14 feet above the first floor. 



Excepting the open space for wagons, &c., it 

 is all enclosed, and so warm that water in the 

 troughs does not freeze over in the coldest 

 weather. Ample means are provided for ven- 

 tilation. The partitions in the basement are 

 made by nailing cleats on the inside of the 

 posts, which are 10 inches square, and slip- 

 ping boards between them. The south side, 

 at dotted line, is boarded down to foot of the 

 braces outside, and inside of braces doors 

 with large glass windows are hung to the tim- 

 bers above, so as to turn up and fasten over 

 head. There are one of these at each bent 

 where the stock is kept, and one for the pur- 

 pose of ventilation. Below these are smaller 

 doors for the passage of sheep, which turn up 

 at bottom. In summer time, the sheep doors 

 are set one side, and the upper part or large 

 doors are fastened up and the whole basement 

 becomes an open shed. The manure is 

 thrown from the horse stable through a win- 

 dow into the pig pen, and from the cow stable 

 in the same way into the calf pen, and the 

 treading of these animals keeps it lirom heating. 



PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR. 



West. 



East. 

 Ifloplanation of Plan of First Floor.— No. 1, the 

 bi/is, 2 feet wide at bottom and 2K at top, which are a 

 pert of the corn-room, No, 2, 11x15 feet. Including the 

 bins; No. 3, stairs, 3x8 feet; No. 4, stair-way ; No. 5, 

 oat-room, 9xl2>^ feit, including Nos. 6 and 7, which 

 are bins. The parallels, =i, show the feeding places to 

 the sheep, cow, and horse departments below. 



