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A Small Barn. 
A general barn should provide ample store-room 
for hay, grain, straw, etc.; comfortable quarters 
for the live stock ; convenient storage for wagons 
and all farm implements, and the best arrange¬ 
ments for making and preserving fertilizers to be 
returned to the land. The plan herewith present¬ 
Bins for other grain may be constructed on the 
other sides as desired. The loft over the gran¬ 
ary is reached by a step-ladder (the fruit-ladder 
may be kept there), and is a good place to store 
lumber, fruit packages, etc. The horse stable, 
fifteen-and-a-half by sixteen feet, is divided into 
three stalls and has no floor. The slide door open¬ 
ing into the side shed is used in getting in dry 
earth and other absorbents, while the manure is 
thrown out at the rear door. A small door next to 
Fig. 1.— EXTERIOR OF A SMAXL BARN. 
ed (figs. 1, 2, and 8), is for a barn thirty-six by 
forty feet, with a lean-to shed upon one end. The 
threshing floor (fig. 2), eleven feet wide, is entered 
by a sliding door ten feet high, kept in place at the 
bottom by a hewed sUl, placed nearly on the level 
of the floor and even with the gravel drive-way 
outside, making an easy entrance for heavy loads. 
First, at the right, entered by a door-way three feet 
wide, is the shop six by six feet, provided with 
work-bench, vise, etc., and lighted by two small 
windows. There is also a window of six, nine by 
fifteen, lights above the entrance, and a similar one 
at the other end of the threshing floor above the 
roof of the shed, which admit of all the light 
needed. Next to the shop is a floorless room eleven- 
and-a-half by sixteen, suitable for a wagon and 
farm tools, and is entered by a sliding outside 
Fig. 2.— MAIN FLOOR OF BARN 
door eight feet wide. A stairway, starting two 
feet back from the line of the threshing floor leads 
through a passage two-and-a-half feet wide, to the 
floor of the scaffold and granary. The latter (flg. 
3), sixteen by eighteen feet, entered by a door three 
feet wide, is provided with cribs for corn on two 
sides, two-and-a-hal£ feet wide and nine feet high, 
sufficient for four to five hundred bushels of corn. 
the stairs is very convenient, and a similar one 
opening into the rear stall makes a good place to 
feed a calf when one is kept there. The hay bay 
has a girt in front two or three feet high, supported 
by short studs, upon which boarding is fitted tight 
to the floor, to prevent any escape of grain in that 
direction while threshing. Similar boarding in 
front of the cow stable will serve the same pur¬ 
pose and keep the fodder in place. There should 
be a permanent ladder at the side of the centre 
post, reaching from the bay girt to the beam. The 
boarding in front of the stall next to the hay-mow 
should be hinged, so as to allow a passage-way 
there when the stall is not occupied. A sliding 
door at the rear affords a convenient place to sup¬ 
ply absorbents as well as a short passage to the 
shed. Through a sliding-board window, eighteen 
by eighteen inches, the ma¬ 
nure may be thrown into a 
shed, where it can be work¬ 
ed over by hogs when de¬ 
sirable. The mangers should 
be two-and-a-half feet wide, 
and provided with com¬ 
fortable ties. The rear door 
of the threshing floor need 
not be more than eight feet 
wide and seven-and a-half 
feet high, to slide on rollers 
like the others. The stable 
doors opening into the yard 
might as well have hinges. 
The cistern, seven or eight 
feet in diameter, should be 
properly protected from the 
yard and supplied with a 
pump and trough. A gate 
between it and the corner of 
the barn would allow the 
passage of a wagon when 
desired. There may be a 
floor over the rear part of 
the threshing-floor on a level 
with one in the shed, thus 
making more room for straw 
or fodder. The following es¬ 
timate contemplates board¬ 
ing the outside with ordinary 
barn boards, and lining the 
cracks with cheap half-inch 
stuff two to four inches 
wide, except the gables, 
which are without lining and 
lap over the boarding below the end rafters, being 
set flush with the same. The crib sides of the 
granary should be boarded with strips three or 
four inches wide and an inch apart, being set 
upon a narrow piece of zinc, nailed over the ends 
of the lower boards to keep the water out. 
In the side of the granary, between the bins and 
crib, there might be an opening, through which 
com could be shovelled from the wagon and after¬ 
wards into the crib. Ashutemight be constructed, 
through which grain could be taken directly from 
the bins to the bags on the wagon in the shed be¬ 
low. The broad boarding upon the side of the 
wagon-room and granary affords a good place to 
hang rakes, hoes, shovels, forks, etc., where each 
can be taken down without disturbing the others, 
and all be convenient and out of the way. The 
general appearance of the building might be im¬ 
proved by using dressed boards of uniform width, 
and covering the cracks with good battens; and 
further by surmounting the roof with a neat ven¬ 
tilator, and covering with paint. The stables 
might be paved and cemented at no very great cost. 
Estimates of Material and Cost: 
SILLS. 
2 40 feet long, 6x6, 240 feet. 
3 36 “ “ “ 824 “ 
1 48 “ “ “ 144 “ 
1 80 “• “ “ 90 “ 
1 22 “ “ “ 66 “ 
3 16 " ••• “ 144 “ 
2 11 “ “ “ 66 “ 
1 13 “ “ “ 89 “ 
8 8“ “ “ 72 “ 
16“ “ “ 18 “ 
2 4.. 86 “ 
POSTS. 
12 16 feet long, 6x6, 576 feet. 
7 6>^ “ “ “ 136 “ 
4 8“ “ “ 96 “ 
BEAMS. 
4 36 feet long, 6x6, 432 feet. 
4 16.192 “ 
3 18.. 162 “ 
1 13 “ “ “ 39 “ 
Total frame stuff, 7761 feet, @ $18 per JI.$139.70 
Shingle lath, 6192 feet, ® $6 per M . 37.15 
Boards, 16 ft. long, 5000 feet, ® $25 per M. 125.00 
PLATES. 
2 13 feet long, 6x6, 78 feet. 
2 11 “ “ " 66 “ 
2 16 “ “ “ 96 " 
2 purline,40ft.long,3x6,120ft 
1 shed, 64 “ “ 96 “ 
1 “ 48 “ “ 72 “ 
1 “ 30 “ “ 45 “ 
GIRTS, BRACES, ETC. 
50 pieces 16 ft. long, 3x4,800 ft 
6 “ 13 “ “ “ 78 “ 
20 “ 18 “ “ “ 360 “ 
RAFTERS. 
42 24 feet long, 8x4,1003 feet. 
71 14 . 994 “ 
JOISTS. 
16 12 feet long, 2x6,208 feet. 
16 16.. 256 “ 
12 16 “ “ 8x6,288 “ 
18 12 “ “ 324 “ 
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Fig. 3.—LOFT OF BARN. 
Yellow pine, 12 ft. long, 432 feet, @ $25 per M. 10.80 
Hemlock, 12 ft. long, ^2 feet, ® $18 per M. 7.77 
“ 13“ “ 468 feet,® $18 “ “ . 8.42 
“ 16 “ “ 865 feet, @ $18 “ “ . 15.55 
Half-inch lining, 1000 feet, @ $12. 12.00 
Cedar shingles, 4x24,18,500, @ $9.50. 175.75 
Stone foundation. 45.P0 
Labor. 150.00 
Nails.. 6.00 
Rollers and hinges. . 6.75 
Windows.. 5.00 
197 ft. eave gutters and tubing, @ $10. 19.70 
Cistern and pump. 30.00 
Sundries. 5.41 
Total cost,. 
.$800.00 
Practical Poultry Suggestions. 
There need be no trouble in moving sitting 
hens from the nest in which they have been accus¬ 
tomed to lay, to the one prepared for sitting. The 
nest should be made before the ben is disturbed, 
and so arranged that she can be shut in for a day af¬ 
ter being moved. Place the eggs in the nest and 
after dark set the hen gently on them, and leave 
her as soon as possible. Fowls accustomed to 
handling will not object to tliis change. It is well 
if possible to set them in a place away from other 
fowls, where they will be perfectly quiet and in 
partial darkness. Give the fowls intended for 
breeders a free range until planting time at least. 
This will keep them in a thrifty healthy condition, 
and prevent an accumulation of fat. A large per¬ 
centage of eggs will batch, and the chickens will be 
stronger and get a better start. 
Small coops for chickens should have a bottom, 
otherwise the digging of the ben in the ground 
will make hollow's in which water may collect, and 
if the cliicks are not drowned they will get wet, 
which may lead to cold and roup. To make a con¬ 
tinuous growth, chicks should be dry and warm at 
all times. A comfortable coop is shown in the 
engraving. If one wishes to be very careful of a few 
