1884] 
AMEEIOAE^ AGEIOULTUEIST. 
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An $800 Barn. 
E. E. IIAERISON. 
The barn, shown in figures 1 to 7, is placed on 
sloping ground, thus saving much excavation, and 
giving .an easy entrance to tlie cellar. This brings 
the rear door of the granary just high enough for 
passing out bags of grain, etc., to a wagon. All 
brick walls are twelve inches thick, except the two 
parallel walls, which are nine inches. The front 
wall is built two feet below the sills, and one and 
one-half foot below the surface of the ground. 
The cellar walls are seven feet below the sills, and 
one foot below the surface in the rear. All studs, 
joists, and rafters, are two feet from centre to 
centre; the sills are framed togethei-, and the studs 
are mortised into sills at both top and bottom. 
The corner and door-posts are four by six inches, 
and the former well braced with same sized timbers.- 
All floors, except the stable, are dressed tougued 
and grooved plank ; that in tlie feed room being an 
Fig. 4.— PLAN OP CELLAR. 
inch and a quarter thick, and the balance seven- 
eighths inch thick. The latter is also used for 
all doors and windows. In figure 1, the centre 
doors are hung at the top with iron rollers and 
rails, sliding back on the inside. At a, a, figure 4, 
are foundations for pillars, used to support the 
floor above. The small door d, in figure 5, is used 
for ordinary passage from feed room to the gran¬ 
ary, but the whole partition in rear of feed room, 
a, b, is hung on hinges (see figure 7, s, s,), and when 
necessary may be hooked up to the joists above. 
This is very convenient in threshing, the straw 
passing out at the rear door. The feed room is 
used for threshing, being wide enough for a two- 
horse tread-power and separator, or a sweep-pow’er 
or engine may be placed in the front yard. The 
room at the side of the granary, containing bins, is 
ceiled on all sides with wide, dressed, tongued and 
grooved plank, and all corners protected with twelve 
inch strips of tin. This, with a close-fitting, 
self-closing door at A:, makes a rat and mouse-proof 
place for storing grain, etc. The bins hold about 
one thousand bushels. The stables have slightly 
eloping floors of two-inch plank. Wagons drive into 
the feed room for unloading hay, etc. A hay-fork 
with railway is used, shown at h, figure 7. Hay is 
hoisted through the uncovered space rf, c,/, g, figure 
6, and with the hay-fork is carried back where 
w'anted. The hay can easily be thrown into the 
feed room. The mow holds thirty to forty tons. 
The rafters are supported by four by four uprights, 
placed ten feet apart, and extending from the 
The cost may be reduced by using timber less 
good, especially flooring and upright plank strips, 
instead of weather boarding or siding, and by using 
nine-inch brick walls and pillars under the front 
part where there is no cellar. In this way the cost 
might be reduced to six hundred or six hun¬ 
dred and fifty dollars. This barn has been in use 
several years, and has proved itself most con- 
for sills. 
lower floor to a cap-board let into the rafters. 
Esliiii.-itcs for Barn, 36 ft. by 48 ft., IS It. 8tii<I.«. 
6 pieces, 6 by 10 inches, 1(1 feet Ions 
6 “ 6 by 10 “ 18 “ 
6 “ 4 by fi “ 16 “ “ 
4 “ 4 by 6 " 18 “ “ 
10 “ 4 by 6 “ 18 “ 
posts and studs. 
8 pieces, 4 by 6 inches, 16 feet long 
60 " 3 by 4 “ 18 “ 
50 “ 3 by 4 “ 16 “ 
4 by 4 “ 24 
for Braces_ 
studding.. 
10 
_ and support rafters. 
50 pieces, 3 by 4 indies, 22 feet long f 
17 “ 21^ by 10 “ 18 “ 
14 pieces, 2}4 by 10 inches,i2 feet long fo 
_ feed room. 
72 pieces, 2X by 8 inches, 12 feet long for joists. 
4 2^ by 8 ** ** Krtnivva 
top sills... 
uprights 
r rafters .... 
joists over 
joists under 
36 
tie beams.. 
venient and comfortable to both man and beast. 
Being w’cll made, it has needed no repairs. 
Hungarian for Hay or Green Fodder. 
A quick-growing plant is required for a second 
crop sown on land after oats, or early potatoes 
have been harvested. Hungarian grass is excellent 
for this purpose, and with a rich and mellow soil 
will be ready to cut in mid-summer, or soon after. 
If the conditions are most favorable, a heavy crop 
may be obtained in six weeks from sowing. Pre- 
fotal, 8000 ft. framing, @ $1.5.$120.00 
4000 feet 7 inch weather boards, @ $15. 60.00 
40CO “ tougued and grooved dressed flooring@$22... 88.00 
2000 “ 1 inch boards for shelving, ® $12.50. 25.00 
1000 “ 1 “ (good) for stalls, troughs, &c., 
@ $15.. 15,00 
2000 feet 2 inch boards for stable doors, @$12.50. 25.00 
7000 “ 6 " wide cypress shingles, ® $10. 70.00 
Fig. 7.—SECTIONAL YfEW OF BARN. 
Excavation for cellar and walls. 20.00 
23,0()0 bricks laid, @ $10. . 230.00 
Carpenter’s work. 125.00 
Locks, binges, nails, tin, &c,, say. 22.00 
Total cost.$800.00 
pare the soil as for oats, wheat, or other grains, 
and sow one bushel of seed per acre. It may be 
sown broadcast and harrowed in lightly. The 
Hungarian fodder has obtained a bad reputation in 
some localities, without deserving it, simply be¬ 
cause the cutting was delayed too long. The crop 
should be harvested as soon as the head is well 
formed, and before the barbed awns become hard 
and dry. The fully ripened bristles irritate the 
stomachs and intestines of animals, especially 
those of horses, and have sometimes done injury. 
If the crop is grown to help fill the hay-mow, it 
should be cut and cured in the same manner as 
Timothy or Red Top, when it makes a good hay. 
Hungarian grass is especially recommended as a 
late crop to be fed green, when the pastures are 
short and dry from close feeding and summer 
drouth. For this purpose it may be sown in 
strips weekly, from early June to the middle of 
July. By growing a few acres of this late crop 
after an early one, a farmer is able to carry an in¬ 
creased number of farm animals and keep them in 
good order. Bear in mind, that the conditions of 
success arc a rich, deep, and mellow earth, and on 
