1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Plan of First Floor and Yard, 



dumped from the drive-way above. This 

 room can be enlarged by inclosing the calf- 

 pen, or by using the cellar directly under it, 

 if necessary. The roots being on the same 

 lioor with the cattle, can be readily brought out 

 in baskets or on a barrow or truck. The 

 stalls at CC are furnished with stanchions, 

 and the platforms on which cows are to stand 

 are 4^ feet wide. The stalls at DD are sep- 

 arated by partitions extending across the 

 mangers, and two feet back between the cat- 

 tle which are fastened by chains about the 

 neck. At EE are passage ways, six feet 

 wide, between mangers, which open into them 

 by hanging doors at the bottom for conven- 

 ience in cleaning. The mangers are boarded 

 up three feet from the floor, and the doors 



are one foot wide. The fodder is thrown 

 down from the floor above into the passage 

 ways through openings, 3x3 feet, seen at GG, 

 in the plan of the upper story, which is 

 reached from below by the stairs at L. 



The upper floor is entered at A on the east 

 end of the barn, by an easy ascent upon a 

 drive-way of earth about 60 feet long and 20 

 feet v;ide at the top. To support the weight 

 of this at the barn, the cellar wall is carried 

 up 18 feet, and strengthened by buttresses ou 

 the inside. The threshing floor is 15 feet 

 wide, and the exit for teams entering at A is 

 by a driveway of timber at B. The bays for 

 hay are 17x43 feet, and represented at CCCC. 

 The posts of this story are 16 feet in height. 

 At K is a room 14x27 feet, with a window. 



