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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
Fig. 1.—ELEVATION, OB PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN SIDES. 
An Excellent Barn Plan. 
The accompanying plans and elevations are 
frcm a barn just erectingat New Castle, West¬ 
chester Co., N. Y., by Drs. Reisig and Hexamer. 
The plan was thoroughly studied during the 
winter—the size determined, each floor planned, 
and each room and door located. Having been 
consulted repeatedly, we have watched the com¬ 
pletion of the plan and the progress of the build¬ 
ing with interest, and think we can not better 
serve the interests of the readers of the American 
Agriculturist , than by explaining it in detail. 
The main part of the barn is 60x40 feet, 3 
stories high, and on each side is a wing 25 
feet wide and about 100 feet long. The barn¬ 
yard is about 260 feet long, and at each end con¬ 
nected with the wings, are open sheds, the 
south one being 
used for com¬ 
post and ma¬ 
nure. Fig. 1, 
is a perspective 
elevation, 
showing the 
northern side, 
and eastern end 
of the main 
building. The 
approach (Z>,) 
to the great 
doors is over 
the ice-house (I, 
in the plans.) 
E, fig. 3, is the shute through which the ice is put 
in. Fig. 2, is the elevation of the southern side 
toward the barn-yard, with large doors to afford 
bays on each side 
(B.B.) 22 feet. At 
the rear of the 
floor are sliutes 
(E), for hay and 
cut fodder, which 
discharge in the 
feed room on the 
lowest floor. At 
the same place 
there are also two 
smaller sliutes ( G,) 
for grain, etc., 
which discharge 
into the bins (S', 
fig. 4,) on the 2d 
floor. —Fig. 4, is 
the second floor. There is a drive-way (AJ) 
through the barn, in which are trap-doors, one, 
P, communicating with the fruit and cider 
cellar, large enough to raise and lower casks 
through; the others (0, 0,) for discharging 
roots into the root cellar, if, is the carriage 
house, not separated from the passage way. L, is 
a fruit-packing 
room, lighted 
on the western 
and northern 
sides, and con¬ 
nected with a 
cool room (A) 
through which 
is an entrance 
to the ice¬ 
house. The 
Lofts in the 
wings on each 
side are above 
the stables,etc., 
seen in fig. 5. 
The stair-ways 
all over the 
barn are de¬ 
signated by F, 
the inclined planes for horses and cattle to pass 
up and down by F'. J?, indicates the feed room, 
in which are 4 bins marked /S'; each shute (G) 
from above leads to either of two bins; and at 
W, W, are four other tin-lined sliutes, each a 
foot square, which lead to the feed boxes, in 
which the feed is mixed. These “ shutes ” or 
leaders are arranged so that the farmer can fill 
them up with a measured quantity of grain and 
feed, then lock his feed room door, and still 
plumbing tools will be kept and used. In one 
corner the chimney, O, rises from the cook-room 
beneath, and a stove, the pipe of which enters 
it, is indicated by a circle near the chimney, and 
in the opposite corner there is a closet 4 feet 
square. At the near end of the cattle wing, Z 
marks the herdsman’s room, entered directly 
from out of doors, but communicating with the 
stable floor by a trap-door, and steps not seen 
in fig. 4, but indicated in fig. 5. On the right of 
the feed room, and conveniently accessible from 
all parts of the building is the tool room, (Z,) 
where all small implements have their place. 
Near this room the stairs (P,) go to the upper 
floor. Y, is the harness and saddle room, where 
the better class of harness, etc., is kept; that 
used for common work is hung up in the stable, 
or under the horse stairs (F l ). The stairs adjoin¬ 
ing the harness room descend to the stable 
floor. The long dotted lines indicate the road¬ 
ways, which are not fenced, but underdrained 
and well made, so as to be hard at all seasons. 
Fig. 5, is a plan of the stable floor and cel¬ 
lars, yard, manure pit, etc. The fruit and cider 
cellar (A,) is entered through the root cellar (S). 
This room is 25 feet square, lighted by a sash 
in the partition. Opening out of it is a cool cel¬ 
lar (-D,) 12 by 6 ft., for preserving grafts and cut¬ 
tings, hanging a side of beef, or any similar pur¬ 
pose. E, is a room 60 by 13 feet in which the 
feed is prepared for the stock of all kinds. The 
hay shutes (E,) from the upper floor discharge 
here, and as there are two, different kinds of 
fodder can be thrown down without the trouble 
Fig. 3.— HAY AND GRAIN FLOOR. 
Fig. 2.— ELEVATION OF SOUTHERN SIDE. 
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Fig. 4. —FLAN OF SECOND OR MIDDBE FLOOR, THE LOFTS EXTENDING OVER THE SHEDS SEEN IN PART IN FIG. 1 AND FIG. 2. 
easy access to the root, fruit, and cider cellars. 
Fig. 3, shows the hay-floor and bays—the 
threshing floor (/!,) being 15 feet wide, and the 
know exactly how much of each the men use. 
A work-shop ( Q ,) is provided, 18x12ft., in 
Which work benches and vices, wood, iron and 
consequent upon having but one, of moving the 
heap of one kind before the other can be thrown 
down. At G, the grain shutes discharge; the 
