New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 369 
2x10 set between. The outsides above main wall have only 2x10 
supported by the exterior walls ofthe barn. The inside is boarded 
horizontally with matched hemlock, sheathed with tarred building 
paper, and boarded again with matched pine. The bottom of the 
timbers are backed by the nine inches of stones and cement of the 
basement floor, and they are strongly supported in the middle by 
the main floor and by the second floor at the top. The outside 
is covered with a good quality of hemlock flooring. 
In the basement there is a door 3x7 feet through which to 
remove silage when low enough, while a trap through the main 
floor, and two doors above in a vertical line allows the most 
economical filling and emptying. 
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