Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-04-12
A SPLENDID BARN.

Few farmers can afford to erect building
equal to me tha: they Can plan, and still
fe Ser to build one like that described below.
Still, we publish description Of it, because
he who cannot obtain all its advantages may
secure part. Perhaps some ofthem can be
provided for in those already occupied. We
ask special attention to the manner Of feed
ing. The italics fn that paragraph are ours.
The description was given, as appears be-
low, by correspondent Of the Rural Nem
Yorker.
"A correspondent of the Rural New York
er gives an account OF barn belonging TO
David Leavitt, Esx., merchant prince OF
New York city, who has farm in Great Bar
rington, Mass, pleasantly located upon the
Housatonc.
1t is two hundred feet in length, with a
center wing on the east side, three store S
high, with an arched roof covered with tin,
and cupola on the center, and erected at an
expense Of rearly $4,000. 1t is based in a
ravine which it spans, thus atfJrdng an ea-
I sy entrance into the third story. Through
this ravine runs durable stream, with which
is formed beautiful reservoir Of water di-
rectly above the barn, that operates upon a
wheel twenty feet in diameter, thus forming
an excellent motive power, that is used fer a
great variety of purposes, such as saving
wood and lumber, threshng, cleaning,and ell
evaiing The grain, cutting straw, and stalks,
unloading the hay, dePositins it in any desi'
red loft, churning, grinding, etc.
The first story is used as manure vault
the second for stabling; the third ior grain
hay, and apartments for domcstics. The ar
ransement for feeding the cattle is most is
genious and convenient the following de
scriptor of which give in the language o
Mr.. Wilkinson, namely: Gall the manual la
Dor required in feeding the cattle is to run q
car which contains twenty-five bushels sof
feed, before the line Of cattle, and shovel the
food into the feeding boxes, which are o
cast iron, quadran t-shlped,o %! about one bnsh
ell capacity, and one to each stall. The box
es are placed one on each side of a partition
that divides two stal!a, and are each attache
at the right angle corner Of the box to tn
front partition stud by hinges, so that tn
=, boxes may be sYung around into the feeding
hall, in front Of the cattle, and over the feed
, ing-car, that the seed which spills in tillin
f the boxes; may fall into the car instead of
the floor. Alter the boxes are filled, the
are turned with isht touch, before tn
, cattle again. In the center, between tn
next or adjoining pair of stalls, is an erec
cylinder, two feet in diameter at the bottom
aud one foot eight inches at tho top, whic
= projects equally into each stall, and extend
| from about a horizont line with the top
It of feed boxes (on the opposite side OF tn
- stalls) to the upper surface Of the hay-lo
= floor, directly over the cattl that it miy
r. filled from that floor. There is circular {
it,. perture six inches in diameter, in each sid
>. Of the hay-tube at a convenient height fro
,r the floor, So that two animals may eat fro
ID the tube at the same tine. Under the tut
70 is drawer into which all the loose h,
$. seed falls through its latticed bottom, whic
10 drawer, when full, is emptied, and when
ut large quantity of seed accumulates, it is Gle
er ned for use OF market. The seed obtained
al Of superior quality, and Tie quantity ordina
Il iy saued by This arrangement ,OiH payfor {
in the manual labor required about the buildi
ed throughout The gear. Across the front of
e. stalls there is also an ordinary box-mans
he directly under which, and running the wi
hs, length Of the stable, is trough or water,T