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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
for building the bam aro given as follows, the wings being 30 feet wide 
and 200 feet long : 
“This square cross bam will have all its extreme parts equi-distant 
from the center. It will be the same distance from the quadrangular 
center to the extreme animal in either wing as from the octagonal center. 
By doubling the width of the wings, we dispense with eight long sides 
200 feet each, or 1,600 feet ; and as the ends of the four wings aro the 
.same length as the eight wings, the saving in outside wall is 1,600 feet. 
And if these sides are 20 feet high, and boarded up and down with a two- 
inch batten, it will take 3G,933 feet to cover these sides thus dispensed 
with. It will also save all the outside and interior posts of the four 
wings dispensed with, as it will require no more posts in a wing 60 feet 
wide than in one 30 feet wide. This will make a saving of about 22,000 
feet; and the outside sills and plates on theso 
long sides will be saved, amount- 
ing to 24,000 feet, besides girths 
Vj and braces — amounting in all to 
a saving of 100,000 feet. The 
— ilLs roofs and floors will cover the 
wu?T BaKLTEE THOtIT same number of square feet as in 
the eight wings, and cost the same. wiuteded witu good 
SHKLTE.lt. 
*‘It wouid cilso save 14,400 cubic feet of wall. Tlio wbole saviug by 
building the wings 60 feet wide could not be less than two-fifths of tho 
whole cost of the barn ; and the convenience and economy of labor must 
be e\^n tci than with the ei^lit narrow wings. This square cross 
barn has the capacity to feed conveniently and comfortably one thousand 
head of cattle; and it now remains to notice some of the details of 
construction. 
“The quadrangular center, 60 feet in diameter, may he built with largo 
corner posts, say 14 by 14 inches square, 37 feet long, and the plates 
and girths of the wing may be framed into theso posts ; but it probably 
would be better that the wing should have separate corner-posts, and 
they be bolted to the posts of the center. The quadrangular center 
should be high enough above the wings to clear the ridge of its roof. 
This would require the posts of the center building to bo 17 or 18 feet 
longer than the wing posts, as the ridge of the wing roof should rise at 
least 17 feet in 60 feet, and come up under the cornice of the center 
building; as these wings will cost about the same money with posts 20 
feet, and the latter height will hold about 40 per cent more, and as this 
storage room will be wanted for so many animals, it will be better to 
provide room in abundance, and make the posts twenty feet long. 
