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made convenient. This leaves a 52-foot interior circle 

 which may be put to any purpose required. The track (c) 

 takes out six feet, still leaving a circle of forty-six feet 

 diameter. The horse stalls (d) are laid out partly on a 

 circle, but are placed at right angles with the drive-way. 

 One strong point to be made in favor of the circular plan 

 is, that by means of the cars running across the drive- way, 

 food dropped through the floor above upon the car can be 

 run to every animal in the basement. The horse stalls 

 would also be very convenient of access from the drive-way. 

 One side of the drive-way might be fitted up with box 

 stalls for brood mares or colts, or calf-pens. We give this 

 plan merely as suggestive, and not as the best arrangement. 

 Every one may divide the space as he sees fit. Of course, 

 it will be more expensive to fit up on a circle, but to one 

 who fancied it, a few dollars would be, perhaps, no objec- 

 tion. This plan has been adopted, since we devised it, by 

 some fancy breeders, as affording the best arrangement 

 for showing many animals and for convenient display at 



The plan of basement given in fig. 8 would, generally, be 

 preferred, and if wanted for a large dairy barn there is 

 room for two parallel floors with two rows of cows to each 

 floor, giving one long and one short row of cows to each 

 floor, affording ample room to drive a cart behind each row 

 of cows to take away the manure. One drive-way would 

 answer for both inside rows of cows ; also leaving room for 

 a narrow calf-pen on the outside wall behind each outside 

 row of cows. This would be occupying the basement to 

 its full capacity, but, usually, on a 250-acre farm, which 

 this size of octagon would accommodate, not more than 

 fifty head of cattle and horses are kept, and our first plan 

 of basement would be the most convenient, leaving ample 

 space for a great variety of uses. 



