Farm Buildings* 
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Explanation, 
a. Barn floor, 14 feet wide. 
b. b. Bays for hay and grain, 18 feet wide and 92 
feet long. 
c. c. Stables for cattle and horses, 13 feet wide in 
the clear. 
d. d. Passages to stables, 4 feet wide. 
e. e. Mangers for feeding, 2^ feet wide. 
/. /. Great doors, 14 feet wide. 
g. g. Stable doors, 5 feet wide, double. 
Length of Barn, 100 feet. 
Width of do. 50 do. 
Posts of do. 18 do. 
Pitch of roof, 12^ feet. 
Height of leanto posts, 7 feet. 
Pitch of stable roof, 8 feet. 
Length of side leantos, 100 feet, 
do. end do. 38 do. 
The barn is framed as if to stand alone, 
omitting the lower girt at the ends on each side 
of the large doors. The leantos are then fram¬ 
ed on the barn in the simplest manner—the pas¬ 
sage being round the main body of the barn, 
excepting at the ends, where the passage is in 
the main barn, and the leantos there only 16 
feet wide, and the manger is fitted up to the 
main barn. Only one passage is made to go 
into the short stables at the ends. Stalls are 
made seven and a half feet wide and boarded 
between, and each ox or cow is tied next to the 
partition side of the stall, which prevents their 
getting together, and saves much room. The 
doors are sufficiently wide to drive in a pair of 
oxen yoked, and large spikes are driven in the 
plates all round the stables to hang harness, 
yokes and chains upon. 
The bottoms of the mangers are raised ten 
inches from the floor, and laid double. The 
sides of the stable are also battened with thin 
boards, inside, which makes them perfectly 
tight and warm; windows with sliding shutters 
are made in the sides, to throw out the manure. 
Girts run parallel with the main floor in the 
posts, across which are laid poles, nine feet 
above the floor, on which hay or grain can be 
piled up to the peak. 
This barn will hold 200 tons of hay and 46 
yoke of oxen, or 100 cows or horses. If only 
ordinary stock is kept, the long leantos need be 
only 18 feet wide, and the short ones 14 feet. 
Granaries can be partitioned off from the bays 
or stables as may be convenient. If a thrash¬ 
ing machine is used, a part of the stable can ac¬ 
commodate it. Its whole expense, finished 
complete, is about $1,500. 
On this model, barns of any size may be 
built, and I am well satisfied that, according to 
the room required, it is altogether the cheapest 
in cost and simplest in construction of any plan 
I have seen. If a less proportion of stable 
room be needed, it may be omitted where con¬ 
venient. 
The passages around the ends of the bays 
and in front of the mangers, are for feeding the 
cattle, every thing being put in front of them. 
The passages are wide enough to carry hay, and 
when the bay is partially fed out, the hay may 
be thrown directly into the passages. 
I would on no account, store hay or other 
material over the cattle, under the stable roofs, 
although there is considerable room, as I am 
satisfied from experience, that there is not too 
much space left for ventilation. 
The floors are lined with thin refuse boards, 
excepting a part of the stables, it being my 
wish that nothing be lost. 
This barn is placed on level ground, having 
no side hill convenient on which to place it. 
This, it is true, is on a larger scale than is 
needed for an ordinary farm ; yet many farms 
require as much and a larger quantity of bam 
room. If every thing be saved and housed that 
can be profitably expended in the feeding of 
stock, much more shelter is required than is 
supposed. If the farm be small, the size of 
the barns should be graduated to its wants. 
This plan has been closely examined by many 
farmers of great experience, and pronounced to 
be the best they have seen. The utmost possi¬ 
ble economy of room is made for packing the 
hay and grain, and the stables are mere leantos, 
made of light frame, attached to the sides and 
ends of the main building. If wood covering 
for either the sides or roof of boards and shin¬ 
gles are not to be obtained, they may be made 
