Vol. XXXIX. No. 19, 
Whole No. 1580. 
Price Five Cents, 
$2.00 Per Tear. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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A GENERAL PURPOSE BARN. 
llural J|rrljitfctut£, 
OUR NEW OFFICE. 
As our readers are aware, we have for some 
time contemplated the removal of the offices 
of the ROrm. New-Yorker from No. 78 
Duane Street, where the paper has been pub¬ 
lished during the past bix years, to a more con¬ 
venient location. It became necessary that 
we should occupy quarters which would facil¬ 
itate the transaction of our enlarged and con¬ 
stantly increasing business. This removal has 
now taken place, and in the accompanying 
engraving we present to our readers a view of 
the building containing our new offices. It is 
most conveniently situated on the corner of 
Park Row and Beekman Street, the very center 
of the most busy region of thiBbusy metropolis. 
The street in which the horse car is seen, 
in the engraving, is Park Row. As this street 
is the chief outlet from the old parts of the 
city to the streets on the eaBt side, the side¬ 
walks are always thronged with pedestrians and 
the roadway busy with vehicles of all kinds. 
To the loft in the engraving is Beckman 
Street, while diagonally across from the Rural 
office and in full view from all Its windows 
lies one of the “ lungs” of the city—the City 
Hall Park—with its green lawns, fountains, 
and shade trees. Directly opposite the Rural 
offices on Park Row stauds the $11,000,000 
Post Office, while within a block on either side 
are the Herald, Times, Tribune, World, Suu, 
Mail, Evening Express, Scientific American, 
Nation, Turf, Field aud Farm, Practical Ameri¬ 
can, Truth, and a score or two more political, 
scientific aud specialist papers. 
The accompanying figures represent plans 
of a barn recently erected by one of my neigh¬ 
bors, Mr. F. 8. Clark. It Is most emphatically 
a barn for all purposes. The owner is not 
only a good farmer, but he Is also a good car¬ 
penter, and these plans are the result of years 
ot experience and due consideration of the 
purposes for which the baru was to be used. 
The structure measures 58 x 36 feet, and 
is built on a gentle slope facing the west. 
Most men would have thought it Impossible to 
arrange the budding so that hay and grain 
could be driven Into the third story, but the 
owner found this both possible and practica¬ 
ble. The basement, or first floor. Is eight feet 
high. Besides the windows marked W, there 
are four panes of glass in each of the doors, 
D, which, together, give all the light that is 
needed. The space not otherwise marked is 
used in the fall for storing corn fodder, pump¬ 
kins. etc., and at other times for the stabling 
of calves and incoming cows. To serve this 
purpose better, pens arc formed by panels 
which can bo put up and *aken down as occa¬ 
sion requires. One end of this floor and the 
entire adjacent side are built into the bank, aa 
Indicated at B. In this cool corner is con¬ 
structed au Ice-house, at the end of which the 
stairs, 8, lead up to the next floor. At P, is a 
hog-pen, at H, a hen-house, the dimensions of 
each bsing Indicated in the plan, and at 
8 are stanchions for ten cows. 
The secoud floor is nine feet high. Here is 
the horse-stable (indicated at II 8), with ad¬ 
joining harness room, box stall and a store¬ 
room for bedding. The stairs at 8 lead to the 
third story, and the open space not otherwise 
marked is used as a store-room for wagons, ma- 
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