Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-02-08
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Westminster Farmers Club.
FARM BUILDING

| FARM BUILDINGS.
Mr.. Henry Wizard said farm buildings
should have ample ventiators, and should
be made air tight. Dwellings should have
the outside partitions filed in with brick
and mortar or have back-plastering, the
latter method being preferable. The roofs
should be durable. He recommended
plastic slate. The roof mig then be fiat,
and the dwelling Of two stories would cost
no more than that with steep roof of one
story. The slate would become better by
age. Farmers put loo little study upon
their buildings. The first cost was of
small importance as the building was to
last three or four generations. The foun-
datioa must be permanent and below frost.
MIR. nj. w. Davis said he recommended,
advised and importuned his hay-makers to
make hay dr;er for stacks than for the
barn; rather keep sheep on an upper
floor than in basement and bis barn cellar
was badly situated, getting no sunlight.
MID C. Wright said his hnnse ~ao
ninety years old. Should he build, he
would make two stories, have the back
part as convenient as the frout,-dining
room the largest, have wood and water as
near as possible not right under foot. Barn
cellars made less work. Hogs were valu-
able TO the manure but not the manure to
the hogs. Hay in stack will settle close,
hence must be drier than ia barns.
Mr.. Iihamer Richardson had two very
tight barns and had stored his hay COM
parativcly green but it came out bright
and new. Tight barns are better than
those full of cracks and open.
]. N. Farr approved rot of open barns,
would have hay made in the field not in
the barn, would have the barn elevated so
as TO have cellar not beneath the surface,
convenient to fodder, easy of access, or he
would shed sheep, feed them in fair wealth
er in open air. lie would have no more
house Of any kind then should be fully &C.
cupied. Most people had buildings with
too much shell costing too much for shell
and for furnishing it. No building would
suit two persons, every new tenant wanted
little alteration; when you build suit
yourself. He believed manure in our
common baro cellars burns and loses one
half IFS value; animals kept in them or
over the gases arising from them when
used to store the manure, were made sick
ly; The frost and dampness too was detri-
mental TO the animals the wool of sheen
kept in them would start and much loss be
suffert d. He stated that Western farmers
claimed that it was better for hay. and all
kinds of grain TO be stacked raj Rer than
be placed in tight barns.
Mr.. Horace Goodhue said that manure
from horses would not burn if kept properly
saturated with moisture, also muck should
be mixed with it and thus valuable COM
post made. He would have a trench built in
the stable in rear Of the cattle, raising the
floor by their fore feet, thus the cattle
would be kept dry and clean and with
much litter and muck with the LIQUID man.
ure much additional value would be given
to the crops.
MIR. n. Fisher did not approve Of
large house or large sum of money in
vested in house, in the language of a
neighboring farmer it did not give any
milk, it was a nuisance rather than other
wise. lie had applied msnures which had
been exposed in the yard, and which had
been protected in cellar and he found no
difference. Manure would heat under COW
er unless water was applied.
Nj. Grout said that the whole room of
the basement OF the barn was got without
additional roofGg. Three times the amount
Of valuable manure FOR the farm can be
easily made by the farmer to that which he
would have without the cellar.
Dea. McNi,l liked open barns the b ST.
now be had TO labor more TO cure his hay
than when he had more open barn. He