Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-26
A Talk About Farm Barns
AT H MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE CLUB

MI. Wetherell opened the discussion up
on the influence of a good house in making
a good, well-regulated family. One born
and bred in a mud-hut is only a little ele-
waited above the brutes.
The grounds about farm buildings should
be thoroughly drained, to promote the CON-
fort and health of a family. Animals, too.
suffer from living in moist barns.
Barns should be well ventilated to pre-
vent offensive odors, and an unhealthy
state of the atmosphere. The stable
should be neither too warm nor too cold,
but have a medium temperature.
There should not be too many animals
in the same stable, if so, they will suffer
as individuals do in a too crowded house.
Hon. Mr.. Brooks of Princeton said build
ings must conform somewhat to the land on
which they are built. He likes the old
New England barn, it being large enough
so that hay need not be pitched up much
above the beams. He built a barn thirty
three years ago, having a cellar. He carts
the manure out in the spring. If he was
to build again he would have a cellar moi
for manure, but for other purposes. He
would throw the manure outside of the
barn, and have it covered.
His barn is ventilated by windows from
the top and sides. The height of a BARI
should be about sixteen feet. Cattle should
be turned out to water. rather than have
water directly before them. The exercise
does them good.
General Sutton, of Salem, said he begar
farming thirty-fve years ago-cultivatinl
four acres. He has gradually increased his
farming operations to the present time
In one of his barns he keeps eighteen cows
In another barn he has about forty head o.
cattle. He ventilates from the gable ends
In this barn he has usually eighty tons o.
hay. His barns are 100 feet apart
and no. a quarter of a mile, as Mr.. Proc
tor stated.
He has q room for his men where ht
places the Agricultural papers. and they
like to spend their evenings there. He re-
CARDS it as the best room on his farm. HI
now has four hundred acres, and he like
farming better every year.
He composts his manure in the field
where he uses it. He has cellars under
each of his barns, and he could not gel
along without them. A barn without a eel
lar, is like a house without a chimney
His own men have made all his cellars, anG
paved all his yards.
He feeds in the morning in the barn; al
noon in the yard; and at night again il
the barn.
His yards are somewhat in the shape of a
dish. The water found there is carried
out by means Of a water cart four or five
times a year. He removes the manure
from his barn cellars once a month.
Mr.. Davis, of Plymouth. finds no fer
mcntation in his barn cellar where Gov
manure is dropped. He holds that com
mon farmers may allow all their manure K
rest in their cellars from October to May
He visited Gen. Sutton's farm two years
ago, and remarked that his modesty haG
not permitted him to do it justice. He
has everything in the most perfect order
One of his rooms interested him more thar
Kimbalps museum. 1t is said there i:
nothing but what is needed on a farm once
in seven years. Whatever is needed Gen.
Sutton has it, and in its place; and in the
best condition.
Mr.. Stedman gave his experience as q
farmer. He has raised a platform for hi:
COWS, and in general, practices the modes
most recommended by the previous speak
ers.
Mr.. Quincy has been recently to The
farm of DIR. Loring in Salem. He founG
him bedding his animals with sand. HI
was once in a celebrated racing stable il
South Carolina, where were several horses
worth $4,000 each.
Horses should have a plenty of light ant
air in the stable. He would recommend
the horse pitch fork to gentlemen having
high barns. He would only use it for yer,
high pitching.
Mr.. Howard said horse pitch forks hat
been used in Pennsylvania ten or ffteel
years where they are only used in higl
barns.
Mr.. Hersey of bingham said his barni
100 feet long, by 80 feet wide. He KEEP
all his cattle in his cellar. Last year b
sold so tons of hay. He has window
around his cellar, but never found it neces
sary to open them He has other barn
for sheep. Those kept in the cellar are in
better condition than those under the opel
sheds. He thinks his cattle are as dry a
those tied in barns. He never lost an an
imal.
Mr.. Andrews has barn cellars for hi
cattle. He sends milk to market. and i
the milk is not in a good condition he sool
hears from it. He keeps from thirty t
forty-fve animals.
Mr.. Brooks says sand is used in hi
neighbOrhOOd for bedding, and also saw
dust.
Mr.. Hersey put twenty tons Of hay int,
a barn with no ventilation whatever, anC
when he sold the hay in the winter b,
found it in the best condition of any he ev
er sold. He believed that farmers VENT
late their barns too much. The housewife
puts her summer savory into a bag away
from the air. And grass is nothing but an
herb.
A gentleman from WATERFOWL said hi
was avery small farmer. A farmer il
Belmont has built a barn 40 by So feet fol
$3.50. The small farmers desire to know
how they can build a barn for $500.
Mr.. Howard spoke of hay being put
into air tight barns. 1t can be done, just