1870. 



2irEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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For the Xew England Farmer, 

 HAY AND GRAIN BARN FOR CATTIjE 

 AND SHEEP, 



The following is the plan of a barn built on 

 the farm of Jedediah Smith during the sum- 

 mer of 1869. It is 40x72 feet, with posts 21 

 feet, with basement under the whole, nine feet 

 in height. The basement is level with the 

 ground around the barn, except at the north 

 end, there being a bank with a wall built per- 

 p'endicular with the north end, with a jet back 

 nine feet from the ground on which sets the end 

 of the barn ; the rest of the barn resting on 

 posts securely braced. There are twenty of 

 these posts, which are arranged in five rows 

 of four posts each across the basement, two 

 of each row being under the side sills. The 

 south end is open. The east side receives 

 the manure from the stable above and the re- 

 mainder of the basement can be divided into 

 as many apartments as may be desired, by 

 bars extending from post to post. There is a 

 drive-way across the cellar near the centre, 

 with doors on each side. The water trough 

 may bo located where most convenient. 

 There are windows on the side to correspond 

 with those in story above. The plan of the 

 basement is so simple that it is hardly neces- 

 sary to present an engraving of it. 



North. 



I I 



door. 



South, 



PLAN OF FIHST FLOOR, 



The stable is 12x72 feet, with entrance at 

 side, as the end is against the embankment ; 

 a bridge or platform rising from the yard to 

 the door. The = indicate traps for passing the 

 manure to the basement below, with windows 



at w. The stable floor declines two inches. 

 The foddering floor is 12x72, with cribs 3 feet 

 wide. A, B, C are bays for hay, 16x14 feet. 

 D, clutter-hole, with stair way leading to sec- 

 ond floor. E. calf pen, 16x16. 1, 2, 3, are 

 grain boxes ; 5, 6 are trap-doors for passing 

 hay, &c., to basement. At south end of the 

 foddering floor is a window of 12x2 lights. 



PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR, 



The driveway is 19 feet above bottom of 

 basement and 10 above the first or foddering 

 floor. At the south end is a long window, 

 also one over the door opposite. The four 

 divisions, marked F, are for hay. They ex- 

 tend three feet lower than the floor, and may 

 be called either bays or scaflfolds. They are 

 over the stable. H, H, H are bays for hay, 

 14x16 feet. J, J are scaifolds, one 14x16 and 

 the other 16x16, with stairway. 



Thirteen feet above the drive way there is 

 a floor 16 feet wide, extending the whole 

 length of the barn, intended for standing 

 bound grain while green, and as there are 

 windows at each gable end, the circulation of 

 air is so free that grain cures nicely here. 



The roof is boarded lengthwise and shin- 

 gled with pine and spruce shingles, laid six 

 inches to the weather. The body of the barn 

 is covered with two thicknesses of boards put 

 up and down. 



The owner of this barn had other out- build- 

 ings for horses, carriages, &c , and this was 

 designed especially for cattle and ^heep, hay 

 and grain. Those diflFeiently circumstanced 

 might desire some slight modifications, but 



