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VOL. XLVI. NO. 1975 
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1887 
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Entered, according to Act of Congress. In the year. 1887, by the Rubal Kew-Yorksh, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
t lean and nice. This might do for the few in¬ 
expensive tools of 50 years ago, the time our 
old barn was built: but it seemed that now, 
with a thousand dollars’ worth or more of 
costly and complicated machinery, there ought 
to be a special place for it, where it could be 
stored handily, so handily that there would be 
no temptation at any time to leave anything 
out-of-doors, and where everything could be 
kept clean and nice. Therefore we built a 
tool and carriage house, 22 by 56, connected 
with the main barn, but so arranged that it 
could be entirely closed up by itself, away 
from dust and dirt of stable, etc. One entire 
roof, and to have it so that one man could 
empty the grain. So I built a granary of hoi- 
low brick, with a tile-and-eement floor, right 
under the thrashing floor. We thrashed the 
other day, and one man easily emptied the 
gram. The cost was much le&s than it would 
have been had there been a separate building, 
to say nothing of the greater convenience. 
Again, I wanted a large barn and a good 
one; but did not want it to cost any more than 
was absolutely necessary. This called for a 
bank or basement barn, of course, as this is 
the most economical style where grain is raised 
and some stock are kept. But the bauk barn, 
with timbers heavy enough to store hay and 
grain over the basement, is quite costly. 
Therefore I let the two bays, one on each side 
of the floor, go right down to mother earth. 
They will hold about lit) tons, [n this way all 
our hay goes in, or about all, down hill: then 
the grain goes on top. No horse fork is need¬ 
ed, as a man can tumble oft' a load in five or 
six minutes. We got in 14 loads the first day 
this year. This is double what we would have 
done in the old barn. It is 14 feet from hay 
rack to bottom of bays. 
Then I never did like having the straw out- 
For years wh drew it back, after 
- 1 . I always vowed 
MR. TERRY’S NEW BARN. 
of-doors. 
thrashing, in the old barn. I always vowed 
that when [ built a new one, the straw should 
never go out. So I planned to have room for 
all the straw right over the stables, where it 
would be dry, and to have chutes, so that it 
could be thrown down either for bedding or 
feed Many of the spleudid great bank barns 
of Ohio are quite empty except for about two 
months in the year. Mine is just as full after 
thrashing as before. 
Again, I did not want a separate horse barn; 
but a nice warm-in-winter and oool-in-summer 
stable in the main barn, handy to hay and 
straw and so we could drive into the tool 
house with the wagon or earriaere or tool nn. 
Defects in nn old barn remedied ; capacious 
tool house-, granary ; economy in construc¬ 
tion ; hay and straw storage-, horse stable-, 
saving manure-, roofed yard-, cost, 
.r y._ nE writer has been tearing down 
his old barn and building a 
new one. He thinks he has 
improved on the old one in 
tuau - v Particulars. In the 
first place, we had no good 
place for tools before. They 
were stored on the barn floor, 
or in sheds, or anywhere they 
could be kept dry. It was not handy to get 
them in or out. They could hardly be kept 
NKW BARN OF T. B. TERRY 
