BUILDING LONG BARNS. 



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smaller compass, this form of barn requiring less travel in 

 feeding the animals and less labor in storing the crops. 

 But the writer knows how tenaciously the farmers hold to 

 old ways and opinions ; and since they will largely build 

 the oblong form, it may be of service to show them how 

 cheaply they may avoid many of the interior posts and 

 beams which so obstruct labor in filling such barns. 



Fig. 14. 



If the barn is 40 feet wide and the posts 25 feet long, all 

 the purlin posts and beams may be left out, and these 

 obstructions thus avoided by using a long, strong brace 

 from the top of each cross-beam, over the floor, to near the 

 top of each outside post. If the floor of the second story 

 runs lengthwise of the barn, each bent will have a cross- 

 beam, the top of which will be 13 feet above the floor, 

 running across the barn from outside post to outside post. 

 Now, instead of the ordinary short brace from the top of 

 this beam to the outside post, the brace should be 6 x 8 



