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is one of the most satisfactory. The objection to the 

 shppery character of such floors is largely obviated by 

 leaving the surface a little rough when laying them. The 

 objection to their being cold for animals to lie on in 

 northern latitudes is said to be obviated by putting down 

 an intervening layer of tar paper when constructing the 

 floor. Unless where the temperatures are extremely 

 low, no harm will result from keeping cattle in stables 

 with cement floors where liberal supplies of bedding are 

 furnished. When such floors are well built, they will 

 last indefinitely, and where a hose can be used they are 

 easily flushed. 



Barn and stable built by the author. — The sketch on 

 page 350, represents a barn erected on the basement 

 plan by the author on his Riverside farm, Ontario, Can- 

 ada, in 1886. It was built for cattle only, but could be 

 so modified in the basement, and without much additional 

 outlay, as to accommodate a number of horses and a 

 flock of sheep. But it may be mentioned in passing that 

 where sheep or horses occupy the same basement with 

 cattle, the separating partitions should extend from the 

 floor upward to the ceiling of the basement for sanitary 

 reasons. The essential features of this barn, or, at least, 

 many of them, were embodied in the plan of the cattle 

 barn subsequently erected by the government of Ontario, 

 at the provincial experiment station farm located at 

 Guelph. 



It is not intended that the sketch thus submitted 

 will furnish an exact guide to any one in building a barn. 

 For the average farm it would be far too costly. It is 

 submitted for the reason that many of its features may 

 be embodied in a basement barn of very moderate dimen- 

 sions. Those readers, therefore, who are about to en- 

 gage in building barns or stables may find it to their 

 advantage to examine carefully into the details of con- 

 struction submitted. 



The building is no feet long and 60 feet broad. 



