June , 1858 . 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Farm Buildings... .IV. 
A WORKSHOP, CARRIAGE-HOUSE, AND STABLE. 
We do not know that we can better dispose of 
these three indispensable appendages to a well- 
conditioned farm establishment, than to throw 
them together in one combined structure, within 
convenient distance of the chief dwelling house. 
Our elevation and ground plan are both easily un¬ 
derstood, and simple in arrangement. 
The main building is 40 feet long, 24 feet wide, 
and the posts 14 feet high. A lean-to stable is 
added, 24x14 feet, with 8-feet posts on the outer 
side, and a shed roof with slope of six feet, or a 
trifle less than a quarter pitch—that of the main 
building being one-third in slope. On the left is a 
workshop, 16x24, with a front door and two side 
windows. A flight of stairs is near the further 
inner corner, leading to the timber-loft above. A 
joiner’s work-bench may stand on the side be¬ 
tween the windows. Here may also be the tool- 
chest, and racks, and pins on the walls to hang 
the larger tools, and various things put in for safe 
keeping. Over head is a lumber-room, with a 
door-window hung on butts or hinges, to take in 
lumber, and a glass window in the gable to light 
it. A door leads from the shop into the waggon 
or carriage-room, 24 feet square, entered by two 
large double doors. Two windows light the room, 
in the rear, and a flight of steps lead to the hay¬ 
loft above. A harness-room and feed-bin may be 
put up in the opposite or left hand corner, if re¬ 
quired, and the affair is complete. This, and the 
workshop rooms are 9 feet between joints, leaving 
a hay-loft over the carriage-room, of 4 feet up¬ 
right on the sides, and the whole pitch of the 
root above, with a couple of blind-doors to receive 
in the hay and straw. 
The stable, by an error, as laid down in the 
the plan, is 16 feet wide, but.in reality should be 
only 14, that being wide enough for common use, 
with either horses or cows. A loft is over it to 
store the straw for bedding. A window on one 
side, as shown in the drawing, and another at the 
further end, not seen in the cut, give it sufficient 
light, and serve also to let out the manure and 
litter It contains two double stalls of 8 feet each, 
and a single one of 4 feet, besides a side passage 
of 4 feet from the carriage-room. A line of man¬ 
gers with rack above is in front, occupying 2 feet. 
We give no plan of racks and mangers, as they 
are exceedingly simple in construction, and al¬ 
most every one has his peculiar fancy in arrang¬ 
ing them. 
It will be seen that we have thrown the broad, 
or hanging roof over the building as usual, the 
eaves projecting 2 or 2£ feet over the walls. The 
stable roof in front comes out on a line with that 
of the main building, and running up immediately 
under it the effect is not incongruous. This plan, 
indeed, is almost an exact copy of a building of 
our own, which we planned, for like uses; and 
we are so well satisfied with its arrangement, 
throughout, that we would not alter it. 
COST. 
This will depend altogether on the manner in 
which it is built and finished. It may cost $300 
or $600, built of rough boards, or planed—with 
plain cornices, as in the cut, or with brackets, as 
in our best farm-house appendages. The expense 
and particular manner of the building, in labor 
and material, depend so much on the taste and 
means of the proprietor, that we need not go into 
it, supposing him to have sense enough to regu¬ 
late that matter. 
In the color of all these outer buildings, where 
washed or painted, we prefer a light, Quaker drab, 
with the body of the paint chiefly white lead. Any 
Fig. 10.- CARRIAGE HOUSE, STABLE AND WORKSHOP-ELEVATION. 
good painter knows the proper ingredients. That 
color is strong, durable, and agreable to the eye, 
and comports well with the natural hue of sur¬ 
rounding rural objects. We may, perhaps, as well 
say here as anywhere, that all farm outer build¬ 
ings should have a cheerful, light color, instead 
of the dark and dingy shades which modern in¬ 
novators and fancy architects have so freely intro¬ 
duced. We are not in favor of a clear white, as 
too glaring, but a subdued, neutral color—neither 
yellow, red, dark brown, nor sooty. 
A small ventilator may be thrown into the roof, 
as in the carriage-house of the dwelling, if desi¬ 
rable, but in a building of this kind it is more of 
an ornamental appendage than absolute utility. 
It may be objected against putting the stable on 
as a lean-to appendage, but it is advantageous so 
to do, instead of its forming a part of the upright 
building. The floors and sills being more or less 
damp, from the continual droppings and stale of 
the animals kept in it, are liable to decay, and 
must be replaced, which is more easily done in a 
lean-to than otherwise. Besides, the lean-to ap¬ 
pendage gives the building a snug, comfortable 
look that rather adds to the homelike appearance 
of the place—an expression, as we think, more 
in character with the farm than buildings wholly 
upright in all their proportions. 
Fig. 12- TURKEY COOP. 
13- HEN COOP. 
These coops are to confine the mothers, and 
chickens when young. The turkey coop is 3 or 4 
feet wide, and 6 or 8 feet long, as may be chosen, 
and three feet high from the sill to the eaves ; the 
gable boarded up, and a broad roof thrown over 
the whole. 
The hen coop is 4 feet long, and 2 feet wide, and 
two feet high at the peak of the roof, which is of 
boards, lengthwise, from top to bottom, and slats 
nailed perpendicularly, or crosswise, at option. 
It is not necessary to describe these further, 
being so simple that any one can understand 
them. They are moveable, and may be made in 
the very roughest manner, and small wooden 
troughs or earthen, tin, or iron dishes set down 
to feed in. 
We have used these kinds of coops many years, 
and find them, altogether, the most convenient 
and economical of any. When not in use, they 
can be piled away in the waggon-house, or laid 
up, one over the other, next 
a fence—the cheapest possi- 
Dle good contrivance one can 
nave of the kind. 
The hen coops are the best 
things for a goose to sit un¬ 
der, during the season of in 
cubation, as she is secure 
from disturbance, and by rais¬ 
ing the coop daily, a few 
inches, she can pass out freely 
to her food and exercise ; and when again on her 
nest, it can be shut down. Where several geese 
are sitting at a time, such an arrangement is by 
far the best, preventing mistakes in getting into 
into each other’s nests, and quarreling, which, 
otherwise, they would be apt to do. 
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Tim Bunker on Curing a Horse Pond. 
Mr. Editor. —Your readers have already heard 
something about Jake Frink, and how he took 
the Premium on carrots over me at the Hooker- 
town Fair. Perhaps they would like to hear some¬ 
thing about a horse-pond that Jake used to own, 
about half way between my house and his. It was 
full a quarter of a mile from his house, but as it 
was the nearest water that Nature had provided, 
it had always been used to water Jake’s horses 
and cattle, when they were not in the pasture. It 
lay by the road side at the foot of a gentle hill, 
and the water for all the wet part of the year 
flowed off over the adjoining lot, making it a sort 
of quagmire, except in times of drouth. An ani¬ 
mal would mire in any part of the lot up to its 
knees. It never occurred to him, that he could 
bring water into his yard at a little expense, and 
save this daily journey of his cattle to the pond. 
He never thought how much manure was wasted 
along the road, and what a nuisance his cattle be¬ 
came to his neighbors, as they were often turned 
into the road, to get water, and to take care of 
themselves. He never thought, that the horse- 
pond spoiled two acres of the best land on his 
farm, and that it cost him at least twenty dollars 
a year to keep up this watering place. The quag¬ 
mire did not pay him the interest on twenty dol¬ 
lars a year. It ought to have paid him ten per 
cent, on two hundred. 
The horse-pond I did not care anything about, 
but Jake’s cattle, geese, and pigs, 
always drawn up my way by this 
water, were a perpetual torment 
to me and to my neighbors. I 
thought I had a right to abate the 
nuisance. So I hailed neighboi 
Frink one day, last Fall, about sell 
ing the two-acre lot near the 
horse-pond. It was before the Fair, for since my 
remarks about stimulating the carrot crop with 
horse manure he has been rather offish. Ever 
since I put down the tile drain in my garden I 
have formed a great idea of curing wet land, and 
I thought this piece of sour, unprofitable pasture 
might easily be turned into a productive meadow. 
Says I “ Mr, Frink. What will you take for 
that bit of swamp land at the foot of the hill 1” 
“ It is worth about twenty dollars an acre, I 
suppose. You hold a note against me for about 
what the land would come to. Give me the note, 
and I will give you a deed.” 
“That is rather a hard bargain, neighbor, the 
land does not pay you the interest on half that 
sum. But as I want the land, I will take it.” 
The deed was given, and I took possession last 
November. We had a wonderful mild Fall and 
Winter, and I went right to work upon the land 
The old broken down wall by the road side tha 
