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CATTLE, HOW TO SHELTER. 
This bam will contain about 100 tons of hay.' ' The btfftTWduld bo better 
facing the South if the lay of the land aktO dddlifity #ili allow. The 
hay-house may extend twenty feet in width and height in the form of an 
L and of such a length as may be wanted for storage, say forty feet- 
This barn, if the space below the hay-house is utilized, will stable six 
horses and forty cattle. 
The basement of the main barn may bo divided into stabling as follows. 
A, horse stables 12 feet deep, with mangers two and a half feet wide for 
hay, with suitable troughs for grain and manger for hay. B and C ara 
cattle stalls. Those in B hung with swinging gates, opening side wavs, 
G the same, but each stall having a separate gate entering direct from the 
yard. E is the main entrance eight feet wide and may contain feed chests ; 
e is an entry five feet wide, with steps up to door D, and having an en- 
trance into the horse stables at each end. F is the overshot or shed. G 
is the portion under the hay-house to be utilized in stalls, if the hay is 
not desired to run clear to the ground ; and H is the yard connected there- 
with. If necessary this may bo roofed over making additional shed room- 
Square and Octagonal Barns. 
In the square or octagonal barn the bay is in the centre, in which a 
vast compact mass of hay can be kept, and this wdl run from the basement 
to the peak. The basement will be used as a stable, and if desired the 
main floor may also be so used ; modern builders understand perfectly tho 
art of making a floor proof against the leakage of liquids. 
One especial advantage in the octagonal shape for barns, when a large 
number of cattle are to be fed, is, the roof is easily supported and con- 
tains more economy of space for its size than any other form except the 
circular. In this the hay will be in the center, and the cattle next the 
wall, facing inwards. Above the cattle will also be a mow for hay, ex- 
cept such portions as are wanted for granaries, grinding machinery and 
other conveniences. At the peak may be a windmill of sufficient power 
to do the pumping of water for the stock, unless it be feasible to conduct 
water by its own gravity. In this case it may be used for grinding and 
cutting fodder. 
Let us see what an octagonal barn sixty feet in diameter will 1 old. 
The width of the stablo will be twelve feet, and the feed next the ba y six 
feet, making eighteen feet in all. This running clear around will have a 
central core of twenty-four feet, besides the entire area, from the floor 
above the stock. The stable will be one hundred and eighty feet in cir- 
cumference, and, allowing three feet, six inches to each, steer, will accom- 
modate fifty head of steers, or if cows, a still greater, number. 
