ISGO." 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
135 
Plan of Fa I'm Biiildiugs. 
By a. E. HARNEY, OF COLD SPRINO, PUTNAM CO., N. T. 
The eug-raviugs represent the front and rear 
views of the barii, aud also a plau of the whole. 
M.ux Bab::^. — The Hay and Grain Barn is the 
center, with wings projecting from each side 
for distributing fodder conveniently to ani- 
mal? from the principal Hay Bays. It may be 
taken in trucks running on rails through tlie 
feeding passages, and crossing the floor of the 
barn. These trucks may be simply large boxes 
running on small cast iron wheels. The Main 
Barn measures 44 by 96, with 16-feet posts and 
a hipped roof. This form of roof gives greater 
room for hay with the same hight of post and 
ridge than the usual slant roof. The frame is 
pine throughout. The Thrashing-floor is 13 
feet wide,ruus 
through the 
whole length, 
and has large 
double doors 
at each end, 
13 feet wide 
and 13 feet 
high. Over 
the thrasliiug 
floor and a- 
bout IG feet 
above it is a 
loft. On each 
side the bays 
are boarded 
up to the hight of three feet from the floor, 
with common ceiling bo.ards. The floors of the 
bays are of l4-inch floor plaulj, aud 3-inch plank 
is used for the thrashing floor. — All the roofs 
are covered with hemlock boards and shingled. 
The Cow Stable. — The wing on the left for 
20 cows, etc., isSixSOfeet. Running through 
the center is a feeding passage 6 feet wide, with 
a door at each end feet by 8 feet, made to slide 
along the partition. Each stall measures 7i x 
7J feet, and will accommodate two cows. The 
passage be- 
hind the stalls 
is 5 feet wide, 
and commu- 
nicates with 
the cow-yard 
in the rear. 
There are 3 
loose boxes, 
each measur- 
ing 8 feefljy 
13 feet, on the 
other side of 
the passage ; 
and occupy- 
ing the rest of 
the space are: 
Work Slwp and room for tlie storage and repair- 
ing of tools, measuring 13 x 1.5 feet ; a Cook 
Room for preparing food for cattle, with a 
large Root Cellar underneath ; and a Oranary, 
13 X 26 feet, fitted up with bins, etc., for grain. 
The entire floor of this wing, including stalls 
and passages, except in the rooms indicated^ 
should be floored with paving stones, laid in 
cement, and the interstices filledwith the same. 
Sheep Sheds. — Projecting at right angles 
from the cow wing is the sheep shed, 18 x 84 
feet, with a gravel floor rammed hard, and 
a loft above for Hay. From this there are five 
doors each 5x8 feet opening into the yards. 
If desired, a portion of this shed may be parti- 
tioned off for straw and bedding for the cattle. 
The Horse xsd Os Staisle, etc.— On the 
right of the main barn is another wmg, 34 x 73 
feet, arranged with stalls for oxen, and pens for 
calves and bulls. The center passage is 6 feet 
wide. Three of the stalls are 5 x 9i feet, exclu- 
sive of rear passage, and thj-ee arc 6 x9i feet. 
The ox stalls are 8 x 7i feet. The Bull pen No. 
1, is 13 X 16, and No. 3 is 13 x 13 feet. There 
are sis calf pens, each 6x8 feet, an open or 
loose box 13 x 14, and a close box of same size. 
JL^JTUKE, — At the rear of both wings are ma- 
nure vaults, one 14 feet, the other 13 feet wide, 
the bottom of each sunk 3 feet below the level 
of the stable floors, and paved in cement, or 
grouted so as to be perfectly tight. Into these 
all the liquid flows, and all the solid manure from 
the stock is put. Its outer walls are 4i feet above 
the ground, and between that and the roof plate 
barn, two m the ends, and several arc placed at 
different points on the ridges of the wings. 
Houses of Unburnt Brick— Adobes. 
FBOHT ELEVATION OP BABN, PACING NOBTH. 
is an open space for the free circulation of ah-. 
Hog Pej5s. — At right angles with the Horse 
stable is a wing for swine. Six pens, each 6 
by 8 feet, with a yard opening from each, and a 
passage way ia front along tlie whole range. 
Beyond tliis ii a room for preparing the food, 
with a chimney so arranged tl .it the extra heat 
from the boiler and flue may je taken into the 
hen coops beyond. This room has bins for 
food placed along the side, and should be sup- 
plied with all the necessaiy or useful fixtures. 
KEAK ELEVATION OF EAKN, 
The Poultry House opens from this room 
and is divided into apartments, as in the plans, 
for the several breeds or groups of fowls. Each 
apartment, 8 x 16 feet, contains nests and roosts, 
and other conveniences, as feed boxes, ash box- 
es and water troughs. Separate rooms are sup- 
plied for setting hens, and separate coops in the 
yard for spring chickens and for fattening fowls. 
The whole is 30 x 78 feet, with posts 9 feet high. 
The hen yard may be extended indefinitely. 
The Cattle Yards at the rear of the barn 
may be made as large as is desirable. All this 
range of buildings is designed to be built of 
wood on a .stone foundation, the sides to be cov- 
ered with vertical boarding and battened, and 
the roofs covered with shingles or slate.— There 
are two large ventilators on the top of the main 
On page 47, we asked for information from 
any who had cmiiloyod this material in build- 
ing at the North, and receive in response the 
following letter from W.F. Pack, Hamilton Co., 
Ohio. The ralijoined responses, in numbered 
paragi-aphs, are in answer to several questions 
which v.'cre proposed to him by us after re- 
ceiving his first communication. — He writes: 
" From a wish expressed in the February 
numl^er, I give my experience with houses built 
of unburnt brick. We have lived in one for the 
last fouryears, and find it very warm and com- 
fortable, in 
almost every 
respect. The 
house is two 
stories and a 
half high, the 
waUs twelve 
inches thick, 
with a rough 
fair casting 
of mortar on 
the outside. It 
has eaves pro- 
jecting four 
feet, and is 
40 feet square. 
The rough casting which covers the walls on the 
exterior seldom comes oft', and when it docs, the 
broken place is easily mended, by mixing a little 
coarse mortar and spattering it on, without any 
other preparation. The house has stood four- 
teen years, and seems likely to stand three times 
as many more. Such is our experience ; and 
wc sincerely liope this (if 3'ou think it worth 
a place in the Am. Agriculturist) will be of some 
benefit to those desiring to build such houses. 
1st. — The manner of making the brick is 
not different 
from the man- 
ufacture of 
the common 
=- burnt brick ; 
only they are 
fourteen inch- 
es in length, 
6 inches wide, 
and 4 inches 
in thiclvuess. 
3d. The brick 
for fJtis house 
were made in 
August, and 
the erection 
of the build- 
ing was commenced in the succeeding autumn. 
3d. — The foundation of stone is raised about 
eighteen inches from the groimd all around, so 
that there is no possibility of water soaking into 
the brick. The rough casting on the outside 
also prevents any dampness from entering. A 
wet brick might crack to ijieces if frozen, but 
an unburncd brick will not absorb 7iear so much 
water as one that is burned. 
4th. — The walls are neither stayed nor studded, 
nor built in a fi'ame of any kind, aud are merely 
put together with mud mortar. Neither sand 
nor lime being used. The rough casting, how- 
ever, is of veiy coarse sand, and strong lime. 
Very much must depend upon the excellence 
of the rough casting, and the wall should 
be left rough that it may hold on. 
