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and a half feet wide, out of which, come two rows of 

 mangers two and a half feet wide, leaving a space of ten 

 feet for driving a wagon through or running a car carrying 

 food for the cattle. There are places for twenty cows or 

 other cattle on each side, leaving a space of sixteen feet at 

 the west end to drive a cart around behind the cattle on 

 either side to carry away the manure and pass out at a side 

 stable door, eight feet wide. The horse stalls are arranged 

 on the south side, but may be placed on either of several 

 other sides, or on all. By placing tails to wall and heads 

 on an inner circle, drawn twelve feet from the wall, with 

 feed-box room three feet wide for each horse, with ample 

 room at the rear, sixteen horse stalls may be arranged on 

 southwest, south and southeast sides. But for 200-acre 

 farms generally, no more than forty head of cattle and six 

 horses would be kept, and for such our ground plan would 

 be most convenient, because it furnishes easy access with a 

 cart, both for supplying fodder and carrying away the 

 manure. On our plan, we have much space on the north, 

 northwest and northeast sides, which may be used for 

 various purposes, such as root cellar, sheep-fold for fifty 

 sheep, or for stowing away tools, working-wagons and 

 implements. 



It will be seen that the basement is not sunk in the 

 earth, but on the north and south sides it is graded up to 

 the floor of the second story, so as to make an easy drive- 

 way into the barn. The base line, as represented on the 

 drawing, is four feet below the general level of the land on 

 the north side, but there is an open channel of water, into 

 which every part is drained, on the south side. The earth 

 on the east and west sides is scraped up on the north and 

 south sides to grade up the drive-ways into second story. 

 This basement is lighted by six windows of twenty lights, 

 8 x 12 glass, and six of ten lights each. 



