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say, 12 feet is left unfilled next to the basement and 

 bridged over with planks, the convenience in getting 

 around the building is thus much increased. The end 

 of the driveway where the bridge begins is protected 

 by a wall of stone, brick, or concrete. 



While basement barns may assume many forms, 

 usually they assume one of two forms known respec- 

 tively as the end-drive and the side-drive, f n the former a 

 passageway, wide enough to admit loads of fodder, runs 

 right through the barn above the stable from end to end. 

 The mows are on either side of this passageway. (See 

 page 360.) In the latter the entrance is from the side, 

 and, in some instances, there is more than one side 

 entrance, dependent on the length of the building. In 

 side-drive basement barns, the mows are on either side 

 of each driveway, and there are no driveways on the 

 other side, which is the yard side of the barn. The end- 

 drive plan of barn makes it easily possible to get at food 

 or litter stored in any mow, and also possible to put the 

 same down into the basement where desired. But to 

 this plan there is the objection that unless after the 

 mows are filled on the two sides of the driveway, much 

 space will be lost unless scafifolding is used and food is 

 stored upon the scafifolding. The scafifolding referred to 

 means poles or sawed timber laid across the passageway 

 and resting on beams between the bents when bents are 

 used. The second objection is the dust that is more 

 or less confined within the building while the grain is 

 being threshed. 



Some basement barns built against somewhat high 

 banks of earth have been constructed with three stories. 

 The lower is used as a duiup for the manure, the one 

 above this for stabling the stock, and the one still higher 

 for storing the food. Such barns have not met with 

 much favor owing to the unpleasant odors that come 

 from the ground story and find their way into the stable. 



It would seem safer to say that no other form of 



