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AMEEICAIn' ageioultueist. 
[January, 
Plans and Description of a Small Barn. 
BY “bUBB oak.” 
For general dimensions see drawings, and for 
timber, etc., see estimates below. The foundation 
lined plank. All the doors are made of inch dressed 
and matched flooring six inches wide. The floors 
over horse and cow stables are eight-inch matched 
boards. The outside covering of inch stock boards 
twelve inches wide, dressed and battened. The 
cornice of the main building projecting about 
walls are started in a trench below frost and laid in 
mortar above the grade, eighteen inches high by 
eighteen inches thick, faced and pointed, with the 
sills imbedded and suitable openings left in the 
walls for ventilation. The horse stable is nine 
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Fig. 3.—GEOtTND PLAN OP THE BAEN. 
feet high between timbers; its floor of two-ineh 
plank laid with three-inch slope, the planks doubled 
in the stalls. It is fitted up with mangers, feed 
boxes, harness-room, etc., as shown. The cow stable 
is eight feet high between timbers ; floor of two-inch 
twenty-eight inches, is finished in good style with 
' neat crown moulding. Ends of rafters cut to pat¬ 
tern as shown (fig.7). Outlookers are cut in the same 
style in the gables. The roof is covered with the 
best quality of shingles. Cupola as shown on ele¬ 
vations, made thorough¬ 
ly watertight around its 
base. Rafters doubled 
and made four by six 
inches under cupola. 
The tops of the centre 
bents are secured by iron 
rods as seen in fig. 4. 
The large doors are hung 
with three heavy forged 
strap and hook hinges to 
each. All other doors 
are hung with T hinges, 
and provided with all 
necessary hooks, hasps, 
latches, etc. The out¬ 
side is painted two coats 
of iron or other prepared 
paints, of colors to suit 
the owner. All material 
for the small barn to 
be flrst-class of its kind, and the entire building to 
be thoroughly and completely finished, as specified. 
K^timate for Barn. 
Timber, 862/8 inches. Length 
Home-Made Incubators. 
Several subscribers who have read the recent ar¬ 
ticles in the American Agriculturist on this subject, 
wish to know what success has been obtained,especi¬ 
ally in using the machines, packing in sawdust, etc. 
Mr. “C. E. M.,” Fall River, 
Mass., asks for the dimen¬ 
sions of all the parts of a 
machine to hold seven hun¬ 
dred eggs, best mode of ven¬ 
tilation—in short, all details 
for constructing a successful 
incubator. Most of these in¬ 
quiries are answered in the 
following from P. H. Jacobs, 
author of the article in our 
June, 1883, number, which 
called out the above requests: 
—Nearly all the makers of in¬ 
cubators have testimonials in 
proof of their efficiency, and 
some of them are excellent. 
The inquiries now are about 
those “home-made.” Two 
methods of construction were 
adopted for the trials; sev¬ 
eral made by the operators 
and heated by lamps, hatched 
well. The average percentage 
of chickens may be safely 
stated at sixty per cent. 
One gentleman secured over 
eighty per eent from three 
trials, with about one thousand two hundred eggs, 
one thousand chicks being hatched. One incubator, 
which was operated by drawing off cold water from 
a tank daily,and replacing it with heated water, gave 
fifty per cent. In every case the operators were nov¬ 
ices. The secret of success is in the storage of heat 
by the sawdust packing which, when fully warm¬ 
ed, gives off the heat very slowly, thus preventing 
Fig. 4.—BAT SIDE OF DEIVEWAT. 
plank sloping one and one-half inch back to the 
drop. It is fitted with stanchions (fig. 8), manger, 
etc., as shown. The driveway floor is of two-inch 
plank dressed and matched, or square edged and 
2 sills, 
2 sills, 
S sills, 
2 sills, 
1 sill. 
5 To be ) .30 feet 
I spliced ( .28 feet 
.32 feet 
.16 feet 
13 ft., Ido.. 12 feet 
6 by 6 inches. Length 
8 plate braces.12 feet 
6 pieces.16 feet 
4 62 / 4 inches. 
30 pieces, .16 feet 
30 pieces, .12 feet 
20 pieces, .18 feet 
20 pieces.14 feet 
2 62 / 8 inches. 
130 joists.16 feet 
2 1 joists.14 feet 
2 62 / 6 inches. 
40 rafters, .21 feet 
16 rafters, . 20 feet 
12 pieces, .16 feet 
50 pieces, 2 by 4.18 feet 
. . $220.53 
4 beams.32 feet 
2 plates, j To be i ,26 feet 
2 plates, 1 siiliced ? .18 feet 
8 posts, 18ft.&2do.l6feet 
7 by 7 inches. 
2 plates, 5 To be ) .26 feet 
2 plates, ( spliced J .18 feet 
8 posts, . 10 feet 
2 pieces, 6 by 8 inch .16 feet ^_. . 
Total, 12,252 feet, ® $18.00 per 1,000 feet 
2,800 feet roofing, ® $12.00 per 1.000. 33.60 
19,000 shingles, ® $4.; 0 per M. 85.50 
2,000 feet,l by 12 in.stock boards,18ft.long, @ $17.00. 34.00 
4,000 feet,l by 12 in.stock boards,16ft. long, ® $17.00. 68.00 
1,500 feet, matched flooring, 16 ft. long, @$20.00. 30.00 
2,200feet,2by 12 in. planks, 16 ft. long, @$16.00. 85.20 
300 feet, 2 by 12 in. planks, 10 t. long, @$16.00. 4.80 
850feet, 2 by 12 in. planks, 12 ft.long,@$18.00. 15.30 
2,800 feet battens, @ 80 cts. per 100. 22.40 
12 windows, 4 lights each, 12 by 14 glass @$1.25. 15.00 
4 do. 5 do. do. 12 by 14 glass ® $1.25. 5.00 
Mouldings, $10.00 ; foundation, $40.00. 50 00 
Carpenter work, $225.00; painting, $50.00. 275.00 
Spikes, nails, bolts, trimmings, etc;. 50.67 
Total Cost.. 
$945.00 
In giving the estimates of cost, the prices for 
building materials are those of the large markets. 
They will vary somewhat in difierent localities. 
Fig. 5.— STABLE SIDE OP DEIVEWAT. 
sudden changes of temperature. The thicker the 
packing of sawdust, the longer the retention of 
heat, but of course this increases the dimensions of 
the incubator without corresponding increase of 
capacity. The hot-water incubator is the safest, 
as no lamps are used. To hold one hundred eggs, 
the tank should be eighteen inches wide and thirty 
inches long, and the depth not less than twelve 
inches, as the deeper it is the greater the volume of 
Fig. 6.— SECTION OF HOESE STABLE. 
water, and the longer will the heat be retained. 
The tank is larger than the drawer, as the former 
rests on supports, while the drawer slides in and 
out under it. The ventilator and drawer are of 
the same dimensions (making allowance for the 
