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The space given to sliee^ is 38 x 36 feet, and is 
divided into two enclosures by a rack into which 
a shoot opens. Still further divisions may be 
made—and several yards could be enclosed con¬ 
venient to them—if this should be desired. 
A narrow passage crossing the walks and sta¬ 
bles gives convenient access for the fanner to 
the different departments. There is a broad 
doorway from the wagon room into the horse- 
stable, admitting a team in harness. The walk 
shown in the plan is for the use of the attend¬ 
ant alone, and is raised 6 inches above the sta¬ 
ble. "Where the floors join, is a gutter for drain¬ 
age of the liquid portion of the manure, which 
conducts, with pipes from both the other drains, 
to a cistern, f/, 67, are closets for harnesses, 
ox-yokes, &c. The main stairway also opens 
from this walk, and conducts to the roof of the 
barn. 7] IT, are trap-doors in the floor above; 
and S, S, S, S, S, are shoots for hay, etc. 
The room for wagom and carriages admits 
six or eight vehicles. 
The room for im'ple- 
ments is large enough 
for a mowing machine, 
horse-rake, etc., besides 
sundry smaller tools. 
The 'poultry 'room up¬ 
on the first floor is 14 x 
Goi feet, and is connect¬ 
ed with a small room, 
with a set-kettle for 
preparing their food, as 
well as that of the hogs, whose pens also adjoin. 
The largest pen is 14 x 16, and there are three 
smaller ones. If more ample accommodations 
are required for swine, the accompanying plan 
for a Detached Piggery should be adopted. 
A permanent endless-chain power is provided, 
to which the horses can be led directly from 
their stable. This occupies but little room, and 
a belt might connect it with a saw in the yard, 
for sawing up firewood. The pulley of the 
horse-power is also connected by a belt directly 
with the shaft of the thrashing machine above, 
r PLAN OP TIES SECOND FLOOR. 
The 'machinery connected with the horse¬ 
power is placed at one end of the main passage. 
The floor, 67, is 7 feet above the second floor of 
the barn, and upon this stands the thrashing 
machine, A. The hay-cutter can also stand 
upon this floor, if it is desired to cut up large 
quantities of feed at once ; or, it can be placed 
below, nearer the bays containing the most of 
the forage. Tlie separator (which is removed 
when not in use) is over B, The arrangement 
gives considerable space for the grain as it is 
thrashed—as there would probably be little ad¬ 
vantage found in a thrashing and cleaning ma¬ 
chine combmed. The latter, if separate, stands 
upon the main floor, and can also be connected 
with the power. Lay a flooring from the floor, 
67, as far as • tlie stairway when needed. 
The poultry rooms occupy the whole second 
story of one of the wings. There are small 
rooms fitted with nests, and the main room is 
provided with roosting poles at each end, with 
troughs beneath, and there are stairs to the 
lower room, for the use of the poultry. These 
rooms can be divided as well as the poultry 
yard, if different kinds and breeds are to be kept 
separate. The building is lighted and warmed 
from the windows, and could be further warmed 
by a stove if necessary. Beside nests and poles 
for roosting, there are few special fixtures re¬ 
quired in a poultry-house. It should be as light 
and airy as possible, and yet warm. There 
should be no floor to the lower story, and the 
fowls should be Avell supplied with gravel, ash¬ 
es and w’ater, besides plenty and variety of feed. 
All the rooms should be completely plastered, 
that they maybe occasionally whitewashed, and 
whatever fixtures are put up for the fowls should 
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be movable, that they may be readily cleaned. 
There is a large garret in this building which 
connects with the stairway. The flues for ven¬ 
tilating the poultry rooms can go through this 
to an opening in the gable. 
It will be noticed that in this design the barn 
is divided into numerous small bays. In most 
Fig. 4.— ELEVATION OF PIGGERY. 
large barns the room for storing hay and grain 
is left in large spaces. When we consider the 
variety of forage which every farmer produces, 
and the manner in which he may wish to 
feed it out, it is easy to perceive that such an 
Fig. 5. —GROUND PLAN OF PIGGERY. 
arrangement is extremely inconvenient. Large 
mows bring only a few kinds upon the top. 
Many of the sorts it is impossible to get at when 
they are wanted. The judicious farmer, how¬ 
ever, wants every kind of forage in his barn 
available at all times—as well to give a constant 
variety of food to his stock, as to give particu¬ 
lar sorts to the different kinds, etc. Thus, he 
will want within easy reach eveiy day of the 
foddering season, the several kinds of fodder, 
from coarse to fine—the clover, timothy, corn¬ 
stalks, etc., besides the different varieties of 
straw. To secure this end they must be in sep¬ 
arate mows. These can be partitioned with 
some cheap and light vertical boarding, fastened 
upon thin horizontal scantlings. It must be re¬ 
membered that the capacity of the barn is not 
reduced by perpendicular divisions, which give 
chance for the mows to settle. As the contents 
will be much better stowed in small bays, they 
will settle much closer. 
The Shoots are at S, S, S, S, S. These are 
fixtures which should never be stinted in num-, 
her in a large barn; and their position should 
be such as to render them available from differ¬ 
ent mows, as much as possible. And while they 
should communicate, if convenient, with the 
main passage, the mows should be independent 
of the barn floor for 
their connection with 
the feeding floors of the 
first stoiy. In this way 
the wdiole barn, includ¬ 
ing the central passage, 
can be filled nearly so¬ 
lid, and yet there be no 
difficulty in getting all 
the different sorts of 
forage to tlie stock be¬ 
low. The benefit of 
such an arrangement is very manifest, yet it 
is very seldom attended to. The whole barn 
will hold more than 135 tons of hay and grain. 
The trap-doors in the main floor are at T, T; 
and there is also a trap-door through the bridge 
at A, for filling the root-cellar. 
DETATCHED PIGGERY. 
On many accounts, especially in fattening, 
accommodations separate from any other farm 
building wonld be preferred; for, with the ut¬ 
most care in cleanliness, the hog seldom falls 
much short of being a nuisance. A plan for 
one is thus given to accompany this design. 
The building is 35 feet square, with various 
sized apartments, which are all convenient to 
a small room in the center, furnished with a set- 
kettle for cooking their food. The pens are 
made as airy as possible in warm weather—the 
enclosure being 4 feet high, and above that with 
shutters which can be opened the full width of 
the pen. The hinges are upon the upper edge, 
and they can be fastened up overhead. A gar¬ 
ret gives room for storing food; and a manure 
cellar under the whole building to be well sup¬ 
plied with dry muck or some other absorbent, 
would be a good addition. 
An old Farmer’s Experience. 
The following bits of experience arc worth 
making a note of. There is only one point in 
which we disagree with our venerable friend. 
It is in regard to the degeneration of wheat, 
oats and potatoes. If we save the seed of small 
grains, in the ear or head, and especially if we 
give drill culture, extra care and perhaps hoeing 
to the grain we wish for seed, and select the 
heaviest kernels from the earliest and largest 
heads, small grains will not degenerate any 
more than corn. Our friend writes: 
“ I have farmed 46 years for myself and ever 
since 1831 h.ave taken two agricultural papers. 
I have been greatly beuefitted by their instruc¬ 
tion, although there are many things published 
