366 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
floor above. Between the silo and box stalls, a passage 43 feet 
wide and a four-foot door makes the way from the cow stable to the 
dairy nearly a straight line. In the northeast corner a room is 
intended to be used as a barn office or herdsman’s room. 
The stairway leading to the main floor is between this room and 
another, designed for a lying-in stall, or storage for feed or bed- 
ding. A passage between the latter and the silo leads to a room 
under the driveway 10x11 feet which will hold 700 bushels of 
roots. The floor of this room is on a level with the silo bottom. 
The floor of the basement is all of cobblestone and cement, 
except the platforms and gutters which are of elm plank laid in 
fresh cement. Very little of the floor is level. The feeding floor 
slopes gently to three central points which are connected with a 
drain. The small room under the driveway is also connected with 
the same drain and a branch of it reaches under the silo floor but 
has no connection with the silo. a 
The “tie-ups” with the walks around same, and the box- 
stalls on the west side all slope to the gutters which are to 
empty through glazed tile with cemented joints into a cistern 3 or 4 
rods south of the barn. This cistern will be at one extremity of 
the manure yard which will be so graded, that whatever drainage 
there may be from the manure pile will return to the cistern, the 
contents of which will be kept pumped over the manure pile. 
This liquid will be supplemented, when necessary to prevent burn- 
ing, by water from the barn supply pipe which extends through 
the south wall of the basement for that purpose. Returning to the 
basement we pass up the stairs indicated above, and find ourselves 
at the left of the main entrance at the north end. There are & 
bents of 16 feet each lengthwise the barn, and the 50 feet width is 
apportioned into two outside bents of 17 feet each, and the mid- 
dle one of 16 feet. The silo occupies the whole of the northwest 
bent and a grain room behind the stairway fills the northeast bent. 
‘The remainder of the main floor is open, except for the interior 
posts at intervals of 16 feet, which support the upper floor and 
roof. This main room less the north bent is 80x50 feet and is 15 
feet high. It will be used for storing such experimental field 
crops as may be found. desirable to keep by themselves longer 
than to take harvest weights; to store hay; and to work the horse 
