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save. Twelve cross-purlin beams, 8 x 8, 20 feet long 1,284 

 feet ; 360 feet of 8 x 8 timber, for long purlin plates, being 

 1,920 feet of lumber ; 48 six-foot braces at foot and top of 

 the posts 576 feet; amounting in all to 3,780 feet of 

 lumber, costing $40 or more, according to location ; and 

 the labor of framing the timber and putting together would 

 be at least as much more. The average saving by the 

 improved method would be $100. 



It will be seen that from this long floor the barn can be 

 completely filled to the ridge with the horse-fork, and 

 would require but little labor in mowing away. 



In this form the barn may be made any length desired, 

 and may afterwards be extended at will. This form of 

 long barn requires the smallest amount of timber and 

 lumber consistent with its length; but the travel from 

 each end of this barn to the center is 90 feet, whilst in the 

 90-foot octagon it is but 45 feet, each having the same 

 capacity. 



This barn is supposed to have a basement for the animals. 

 But to make the basement of this barn as convenient in 

 space for carrying away the manure as the octagon it would 

 require to be 44 feet wide. 



The great point about this form of oblong barn is the 

 facility of lengthening it at pleasure, and its comparative 

 freedom from interior posts or obstructions. 



BARN FOR 1,000 HEAD OF CATTLE. 



Having discussed the best form of barn, and described a 

 cheap and convenient method of building oblong barns, 

 which may be lengthened at any time to suit convenience, 

 without any change in its present form, giving reasons for 

 preferring the octagonal form, except for barns 40 feet 

 square or less, we now proceed to describe two forms for a 

 barn that will accommodate large feeding operations upon 

 western farms, where the large feeders shall be convinced 



