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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
Vermin on Live-stock. — Wc have been in- 
strumental in supplying farmers with great 
quantities of carbolic soap for destroying vermin 
of all sorts — ticks, lice, and fleas, besides scab 
and mange. In no case where this article has 
been used and applied according to directions lias 
it failed of producing a perfect cure. Before ani- 
mals are taken up for the winter, they should 
be cleansed, and their stalls and pens should be 
showered and washed with strong carbolic suds. 
The Barn at Ogden Farm. 
(Continued from page 374.) 
As it was not convenient to give the plans of 
the barn with the elevation, they are placed 
here. Fig. 1 is the manure and root cellars. 
Fig. 2 shows the plan of the cattle floor, which 
contains stalls for two 3-okes of oxen, good 
stables for four horses, two bos-stalls, and stalls 
Fig. 1. — PLAN OF MiSniE AND ROOT 
for 39 cows. Fig. 3 shows the upper or hay 
floor, which is 80 feet by 100, and has three 
rooms and a recess for tools, built in such a 
manner as to occupy only the bight required 
for these purposes, the space above them being 
available for the storing of hay, etc. Fig. 4 
shows a longitudinal section of the barn on a 
line drawn through the front part of the horse- 
stalls. Fig. 5 gives a cross-section of the barn. 
The references to the letters on the plans make 
any other explanation of them unnecessary. 
This barn was built with reference to keep- 
ing the cattle in stalls throughout the year, 
and combines many facilities for carrying on 
the necessary operations of feeding, etc., with 
the least possible expenditure of labor. For 
soiling in summer the green feed is hauled in a 
cart on to the upper floor of the barn, dropped 
through a hatchway into a car on a railroad be- 
low, and on this it is run along the gangway 
between the heads of the cattle, being thrown 
to them on a floor on the same level with that 
on which they stand. Running along in front 
of the cow stalls is a series of iron drinking 
troughs, one for each two stalls, connected by 
one-inch galvanized iron pipes, which pass from 
the bottom of one trough to the bottom of the 
from a wooden tub standing near it, which 
is filled from a tank on the floor above, 
water from a distant well 
being thrown into this 
by a wind-mill and force- 
pump. By adjusting the 
stream flowing from the 
storage tank, so as to keep 
up a constant flow from 
the tank to the outlet- 
pipe at the far end of the 
series, a constant supply of 
fresh water is furnished 
without labor and almost 
without attention. The 
floor on which the hind Fk 
feet of the cows stand, bin 
and for a little distance to 
their rear, is made of two-inch plank, six iuches 
wide, and placed at a distance of one and a 
quarter inches from each other. The urine and 
the smaller droppings 
fall directly through the 
openings. The manure 
that is not thus dis- 
posed of is thrown with 
shovels through scuttles 
in the floor near the 
outer wall. For winter 
use this barn is equal- 
ly well arranged. A 
cutting-machine, driven 
cellars. , 
by a steam engine, 
reduces the hay to a state of chaff; it is then 
thoroughly moistened with water, of which an 
ample supply is at hand, sprinkled with bran or 
meal, and mixed with sliced roots, and then 
labor, either of work or supervision, could have 
been saved. The barn is built of the best mate- 
. — HAT FLOOR. — a, Straw Loft ; 6, Hay-room ; c, jfeed-room ; d d, Grain- 
c, Steaming Vat; ff. Hatches; ff, Water-tank; h, Tvol-room; i, Work- 
shop; J, Bed-room; /■:, Boiler-room ; I, Hay-cutter. 
rials, amply secured, where necessary, with 
wrqught-iron work ; the roof is supported on 
trusses, so that the hay floor is cut up by no 
posts; and every convenience that could be 
suggested by economy alone has been intro- 
duced. At the same time, nothing has been ex- 
pended for ornament ; and, by a strict adherence 
to this principle, the entire cost of the bam, its 
machinery and its approaches, has been brought 
within $7,500 — a sum on which the saving of 
labor alone, or the perfect protection of manure 
alone, would almost pay the interest, while 
the barn affords complete shelter for produce, 
implements, and stock. The ventilation is man- 
aged at present by means of the doors and 
windows — the cattle floor having eight sliding 
doors, 5 feet wide and 8 feet high, and about a 
dozen windows, all of which may be opened. 
In summer, everything is kept open day and 
4. — longitudinal SECTION. — a a, Cattle Stalls ; a\ Straw Loft ; 6 b. Hay-room ; c c, Hoot-cellar ; d d, 
Manure Cellar ; e, Bridge ; g, Water-tank; h, Tool-room; i, Door to Workshop ; j, Do. to Bed-room ; 
k k, Horse Stalls. 
Fig. 2.— cattle FLOOR. — a, Trap to Boot-cellar ; 6 6 6, Loose Bores ; <• c, 
Calf I'ens ,- d d, Cum Sta'ls ; c, Ox Stalls; ff. Horse Stalls; <j g, Water- 
tubs; h //, Watering Troughs; i i, Slopes to Enter. 
adjoining one. The last trough of the series 
has an overflow pipe, passing out near the 
top. The first one is supplied with water 
packed into the steaming chest, which has suf- 
ficient capacity to cook one day's supply for all 
of the stock the barn can accommodate. The 
storage capacity of the bay floor is about one 
hundred and twenty tons, and the stowing-away 
is done by the aid of a Palmer hay-fork, work- 
ing on hooks in the roof. 
It will be seen that in this 
baTn there is no pitching up, 
except what is necessary for 
throwing the manure into 
the carts, by which it is to 
be drawn to the field. The 
hay is stowed in its place 
by horse-power. After cut- 
ting, the chaff is carried by 
an elevator to the floor over 
the feed-room. All feed 
given is dropped through a 
trap-door to the feeding-car, 
and the manure again drops 
into the cellar. Every- 
thing is so arranged that all the operations are 
under the easy control of the manager ; and it 
is difficult to see where in the arrangement any 
night, except during the prevalence of high 
winds; and even in winter, doors and windows 
are opened on the leeward side of the building. 
For winter, the 
ventilation will 
be effected by 
four flues pass- 
ing from the 
manure cellar 
to ventilators 
in the roof. 
As the cellar 
has no commu- 
nication with 
the outer air, 
the flues can be 
supplied only 
by the descent 
of air through Fi S- 5.— cross-section.— a a, Cat- 
. , = . tie Stalls; 6, Hay - room ; e, Feed- 
tlie slatted room . ^ Passage with Car for Feed; 
floor behind the e c, Manure Cellar; g, Water-tank; 
cattle. This ar- *> n**-'™"- 
rangement will check the rising of air from the 
manure into the stables, from which it will ven- 
tilate without causing drafts above the cattle. 
