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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
April 14 
A CHEAP SOUTHERN BARN. 
Will you submit a plan of a conveniently- 
arranged barn? It should be large enough 
to stable three horses, four or five cows; 
ample space for forage, and shedded on 
two sides to store farming implements. 
Cost not to exceed $125, labor not included. 
Lumber is worth $9 per 1,000 feet; shingles, 
$2.65 per 1,000. H. B. T. 
Beverly, W. Va. 
It is somewhat difficult to plan a barn 
winch will be satisfactory m every way, 
and have the cost for material not ex¬ 
ceed the price stipulated, viz., $125. In 
North Carolina there was constructed a 
barn for the State Geological Survey, the 
cost including everything was only $150. 
We present herewith two sketches, 
one of which shows the front ele- 
GROUND PLAN OF BARN. Fig. 83. 
vation and the other the ground plan. 
Perhaps this plan may he modified and 
altered somewhat, and be made to suit 
the needs of the correspondent. The 
break in the roof, which is shown on 
one side, should be remedied, as it will 
add to the expense. In the Report of 
the North Carolina Experiment Station 
for 1897 the plan is described. The foun¬ 
dation timbers of the barn were raised 
nearly a foot above the general level 
of the soil. The floor of the stalls and 
the anteroom, including all of the main 
body of the barn, but not including the 
side shed rooms, was built up with rock 
and gravel a depth of one foot, so as to 
be even with the top of the sills. The 
floors of both shed rooms were also cov¬ 
ered to a depth of several inches with 
broken stone and gravel, so as to keep 
them dry. The stable proper is 16x24 
feet, with two sheds, each 10x24 feet, 
practically all under one roof. The shed 
shown at the left could have been con¬ 
structed at less cost had the roof been 
A CHEAP SOUTHERN BARN. Fig. 84. 
made similar to the roof on the right 
and more room would have been secured. 
The following is the itemized bill of lum¬ 
ber used in the construction of this barn, 
not including the shed at the left. 
sq. ft. 
3 sills 6x6x16. 344 
2 sills 6x6x24. 144 
1 sill 6x6x10 . 30 
3 posts 4x6x12 . 72 
4 posts 4x6x14 . 84 
3 posts 4x6x8 . 4S 
4 plates 2x4x16 . 43 
4 plates 4x4x24 . 64 
1 piece (ridge) 1x8x24 . 16 
13 rafters 2x6x13 . 169 
13 rafters 2x6x23% . 306 
13 collar beams 1x6x10 . 65 
13 floor joists 2x9x16. 312 
9 pieces, braces 3x4x15. 13o 
2 stall partitions 4x5x15 . 33 
Roof boards, 56 pieces 1x4x24. 448 
Gables and carriage room . 650 
78 slats at horse stalls 1x3x9. 179 
6 pieces horse stable 1x10x10 . 50 
Lumber for four doors . 163 
Timber for stalls, 6 pieces, 2x10x6. 60 
Temporary stalls, 10 pieces 2x10x9 . 150 
Stall doors . 37 
% in. matched for harness room . 124 
Feed boxes . 43 
13 pieces 1x10x11 ft. (floor joist in shed). 120 
Floor in shed loft . 180 
Partition between stable and front 
room, 19 pieces 1x10x9 ft. 200 
Grain boxes for storage . 70 
1% in. floor for room . 600 
15 pieces 2x10x15 (floor joists). 375 
Total .4,592 
7% thousand shingles. 
We give this detailed bill of lumber 
used in the construction of the barn. 
It must be changed somewhat in the 
present case, but yet it will serve as a 
guide in the purchase of material. If 
the shed at the left is made continuous 
with the barn roof there wilt be required 
six posts 14 feet long, and 26 rafters 
23^4 feet long, dropping out the three 
posts 12 feet long and 13 rafters 13 feet 
long. A little additional lumber would 
be required to cover shed and for 
braces. If the expense could be slightly 
increased and tha barn made higher, 
more space for the storage of hay and 
straw would be secured. It is always 
well to build a barn high, because no 
more roofing is required than for a low 
one, ana also no more foundation is re¬ 
quired. The plan of the North Carolina 
barn is given simply as a suggestion, 
which may be improved upon, and 
changed to suit the conditions. 
l. a. c. 
Working the Bull. 
Some time ago you had a description and 
picture of a bull that was trained to har¬ 
ness. I used to see bulls down south, in 
Georgia and Florida, driven the same as 
a horse, with harness and bit, single and 
double. I don’t see why a bull cannot be 
trained to work the same as a horse or 
ox; use them to cultivate or rake hay, or 
any other light work. I am going to raise 
a bull this year, and he will have a chance 
to earn his keep, if he doesn’t make me 
earn enough for the two of us training him 
to it. J - B - K - 
So. Portsmouth, R. I. 
We will try to have some one who 
ft as trained a uuil tell us how he did it. 
We have seen bulls at work in a tread 
power. One New York dairyman used 
his bull in the hay mow to tread down 
fhe hay. The bull was pulled up and let 
down in slings, fastened to tne hay car¬ 
rier. This bull also pulled the hay rake, 
and was occasionally put on a cultivator 
jar harrow. A bull is always dangerous, 
and we advise great caution in handling 
Four-Legged Insect Catchers. 
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There has been some discussion as to 
which is better for orchard work, the sheep 
Or the pig. Mr. J. S. Woodward gives 
these arguments for his friend, the woolly- 
back: 
I agree that when a pig gets an apple 
containing a worm there is no dan¬ 
ger that that worm will ever cause any 
damage to the future apple crop. But as 
an insect destroyer the pig is nowhere 
Svith the sheep. The trouble with the 
pig is that it is too much like a man; 
when it lies down and goes to sleep it 
is oblivious of all its surroundings. It 
Sleeps just as soundly and snores just as 
loud as its human cousin, and when an 
apple drops it doesn’t hear it or go for it 
until its sleep is out. The instinct of the 
worm teaches it to get out of the apple 
just as quickly as possible after it drops. 
I have stood and watched an apple after 
it struck the ground, and seen the worm 
come hustling out in a hurry and go 
for some secure place, and before the pig 
gets the apple the worm is in some safe 
hiding place. Not so the sheep; they 
never sleep so soundly but they will 
hear an apple falling rods away, and 
they are up and there before the worm 
can get out, and that worm is traveling 
to that bourne whence no worm ever 
comes baek to curse the apple grower. 
Yes, pigs are good, but sheep are a 
hundred times better, j. s. woodward. 
Hogs and Hay.— The Nevada Experiment 
Station at Reno gives, in Bulletin No. 40, 
an account of a feeding trial with pigs. 
The object was to test the value of Alfalfa 
hay for pig feeding, and also some of the 
other feeds which are common to the Ne¬ 
vada farmer. This Idea of feeding hay 
to pigs would probably strike some east¬ 
ern farmers as a novel thing; yet, there is 
no good reason why a pig should not be 
fed on anything that suits the horse, the 
sheep or the cow. These Nevada pigs 
were fed Alfalfa hay from hay boxes, 
which were made of rough lumber some¬ 
what in the form of an ark. The hay was 
put inside, and the pigs helped themselves 
at will. The results showed that while 
Alfalfa pasture Is a great help in raising 
pigs, Alfalfa hay alone in Winter will do 
little more than keep the pigs alive. When 
fed with roots or grain, however, it will 
prove a very useful and valuable food. Al¬ 
falfa hay and sugar beets or turnips give 
a good gain with satisfactory results. 
When we think how easily both these crops 
are produced in the West, it seems as 
though a new idea in pig feeding had cer¬ 
tainly been developed. It appears that a 
hog can be given frame and shape on 
these cheap feeds, and a comparatively 
short feeding period on corn will give him 
the necessary fat. This experiment indi¬ 
cates one of the things that eastern farm¬ 
ers can pick up and make use of to their 
advantage. 
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