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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
barn would bo likely to bo filled, so that no room will be lost, and the 
barn will be practically free from obstruction to pitching with a horse-fork. 
“In the bents, where the cross-beams are raised nearly to the plates, 
there must be a beam framed into the posts on each side of the floor, 13 
feet abo\ e the sills, to correspond with the other beams over the floor, 
upon which scaffolding may be placed for using the room ever the floor. 
It remains only to be mentioned that the interior sills are four cross-sills] 
140 feet apart, to tie the barn together at the bottom, and two sills running 
lengthwise, one on each side of the floor— that is, the centre of each of 
these long sills is placed 8 feet from the centre of the barn. The joists 
for the bays will run from these long sills on each side of the floor to the 
outside sill about 21 feet. Each of these long sills come over a row of 
stanchion timbers in the basement below.” 
ItaKMEK TnUIFTT’S CAri'Llt. 
The reader will see that these wings above the basement are built in 
,the simplest manner, using no surplus material, and as cheap as may be 
••nsistent with strength and durability. 
Basements for Cattle. 
“We will now examine the construction of the basements of these long 
wings. The wall under each of these wings, if built of concrete. 15 
inches thick at bottom, 12 inches at the top and eight feet high, being 
460 feet long, would coutaiu 4,140 cubic feet, and could be built in most 
