1908. 
837 
SOME BARN PLANS. 
After the conflagration, what? On Au¬ 
gust 13 I had a barn, 70x40 feet, and out¬ 
buildings. They contained nearly 40 tons 
of hay, two horses, silo, horse-power, tools, 
etc. August 14 all that was left of them 
were ashes and ruins. The cause of the 
fire was a lightning holt, which mercifully 
killed the horses outright. I have the cows 
left, so that a barn this Fall seems a neces¬ 
sity. The insurance is small, so nothing 
elaborate can be considered, but it must he 
fit to satisfy the health inspectors. The cel¬ 
lar walls are good, nine feet high, open to 
the south. What do you think of stable in 
the basement? I can have large windows 
on north and south, and small ones on 
east and west. Would it bo allowable to 
use end of basement for a manure shed 
if there was a close wall between that and 
the stable? The stable before was on the 
ground floor over cellar. I was greatly 
troubled with the planks rotting. I thought 
a cement floor in basement would do away 
with that. Would it be as healthful? My 
cellar is dry and fairly light and it seems if 
any basement was suitable for a stable mine 
would he. I wish I could hear from those 
who had them. I would like some barn 
plans; the stable for 10 cows, some young 
stock and three’ horses. e. w. c. 
Massachusetts. 
I do not quite understand how a barn 
40x70 with large windows on both sides 
could be called a basement. If his 
40x70 can be well lighted so as to let 
in plenty of sunlight I sec no objection 
to keeping his cows in the basement. 
One advantage of having his stable on 
ground is that he can concrete the 
trenches back of his cows, and the 
walks, thereby being able to keep his 
stable clean, and ability to save all the 
liquid in the trenches. I think all 
manure should be removed outside the 
stable to avoid smell. I should be 
afraid the end of the basement would 
be hard to keep sweet and difficult to 
keep free from odors that would get 
into the stable, however carefully he 
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MR. LITCHFIELD’S BARN PLAN. 
tried to partition it off from the stable. 
If he is to build new, I think an L 
running out from his hay barn wide 
enough for two rows of cows is pre¬ 
ferable, as it keeps all odors from the 
hay, can be better lighted, and can be 
nicely ventilated in the roof. In this 
way his hay barn need not be so ex¬ 
pensive. c. M. WINSLOW. 
Vermont. 
It is entirely practicable to use his 
old cellar for stable if he wishes, but 
I would count very carefully and see if 
an entirely new structure could not be 
built at less expense. This question of 
barn building is one on which I have 
spent a great deal of thought and study 
these last two years, with the result 
that I am now putting in a concrete 
foundation for a small but thoroughly 
up-to-date dairy barn. If I were to 
build E. W. C.’s barn and wished to 
utilize the old cellar I would not hesi¬ 
tate to do so, putting in a good job of 
concrete for floor, and as much window 
space as possible. Sunlight is the best 
disinfectant known to science, and with 
plenty of window glass it can work all 
the time, without being dependent on 
the memory of an employee, or the feel¬ 
ing that it costs too n...ch. The 
manure shed in one end is not the 
most modern way, but with a good tight 
double wall between manure shed and 
stable there ought not to be any rea¬ 
sonable objection on the part of inspec¬ 
tors if manure was removed frequently 
and care taken to use plenty of ab¬ 
sorbents, including chemicals, and in all 
ways try to keep things in workman¬ 
like, cleanly condition. I should pre¬ 
fer such an arrangement to the ordin¬ 
ary manure cellar -under the room in 
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which stock is kept. I know of no law 
of animal economy whereby dairy cows 
do not require just as pure air as we 
do for perfect health, and I have never 
seen a perfectly sanitary stable with a 
pile of fermenting manure underneath. 
I he modern idea, where not possible 
to draw manure to field every day, is 
to put manure shed 30 or 40 feet from 
main barn, and convey manure from 
stable with one of the suspended car¬ 
riers, advertised in the columns of The 
R. N.-Y. and other papers. 
The chances are that E. W. C. will 
find it advisable to set up studding 
around next the cellar wall and sheath 
with paper and boards on account of 
frost forming on the walls in cold 
weather, and on this account I would 
figure very carefully and examine my 
surroundings very closely to see if 
there may not be some hill or other 
elevation suitably located, against which 
the barn could be built, but out from 
the bank a few feet, and the space 
bridged across for driveway to barn 
floor. This does not cost much and 
does away with so much stone wall sur¬ 
face. I would put the roof as high as 
possible and get the needed room with 
less roof area, another economy. All 
this is worth weighing carefully in 
these days of high-priced lumber and 
labor. 
The sketch shows substantially the 
floor plan to be put in the writer’s new 
barn, except that I have no use for 
manure shed, as we draw every day and 
spread in field. The cow-stalls can be 
placed with the tails to the walls and 
facing a central feed alley if desired, 
though the best stables I have been in 
have been arranged as shown in sketch. 
Such an arrangement avoids so much 
re-breathing of the vitiated air and is 
less work to remove manure, always 
a hard, disagreeable task, and avoids 
soiling of walls, etc. If E. W. C. should 
decide to build an entirely new struc¬ 
ture he will, in most cases, be able to 
effect a saving by building his founda¬ 
tion wall of cement and cobblestones 
put into a plank form. This can be 
done by ordinary unskilled help instead 
of hiring an expensive stone mason, as 
would be necessary in using heavy 
stones. 
Another saving, where new lumber is 
to be bought, is to buy only plank and 
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spike them together to form posts and 
beams. And by using much of the ma¬ 
terial used as studding and putting the 
outside boarding on horizontally, a 
saving of material is realized with a 
gain in strength and ability to with¬ 
stand pressure from within and with¬ 
out. Used in this way every board and 
. nail helps to brace the structure. A 
driveway to the top of barn and nar¬ 
row deep hay bays, is, all things con¬ 
sidered, a better arrangement than any 
horse fork or other mechanical means 
for unloading hay, where the topo¬ 
graphy is favorable to such construc¬ 
tion. Any fool can pitch hay down 
into a bay with a fork, but it takes ex¬ 
ecutive ability to operate any kind of 
machinery successfully. Unskilled help 
will easily waste more time using a 
horse fork than the thing is worth. 
Of course no one disputes the value of 
the horse fork in old barns or where it 
is possible for the “boss” to be present 
most of the time. E. W. C. will find a 
careful study of King’s Physics of 
Agriculture and the Creamery Patron’s 
Handbook to be well worth his while 
before he builds. L. c. Litchfield. 
I would advise him to put in cement 
floor with tar paper between upper and 
lower coats of cement, being careful to 
have thorough drainage and under no 
circumstances using end of basement 
for manure pit. Put in King system of 
ventilation and his basement stable will 
be perfectly dry. H. e. cook. 
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Several readers ask if it would be safe to 
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Ans. —This smut is a disease which 
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the next, and especially on well-manured 
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year there would be greater danger next 
season. This smut is not like that of 
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germs or spores of corn smut are not 
on the seed unless a smutty ear is se¬ 
lected. Those spores float in the air and 
attack the plant from the outside, so that 
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