Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-26

cost goods, and in which there is no economy
to rich or poor.
l like the plan of building a house that is
proof against vermin, which is easily done
without much extra expense. Instead of a
frame as is the common custom. have your
lumber sawed into Stats l 10 by 4 or 5 inches,
which may be Of cheap material, answering
every purpose in this case. After placing
stills on foundation, begin to lay on Stats as
above, mentioned breaking joints each time
and the same with the partitions to all the
rooms mailing them sufficiently strong until
high enough for your overlays. After they
are all laid in their proper place continue to
slat between them and so on above until COM
pleted, making one of the most substantial
and comfortable houses that our farmers can
have, and always free from those pests that
annoy so many dwellings among the farming
community generally. One OF the houses Cd
my " farm is buils after the above plan, and
has ever been free from rats and mice until
this day, while in the other house we have
suffered great annoyance and damage.
In connection with the house, the Ice-holse,
though thought by some to be OF minor con-
sequence, is in many instances of valuable
consequence, and may be safely reckoned
among the necessities Of the dairy product.
No family should be without it that has a
dairy, unless they have a very cold spring of
water handy to the milk-room; and even
then ice may be used to advantage, especially
with those using the Jewett pan land by the
way | would highly recommend those pans
to all oar farmers, believing them to be a
success, both in labor saving and in quantity
and quality of %butterl. | think one great
fault with our milk-rooms is in the tempera-
ture not being even and sufficiently cool.
With a little care and by using ice it may be
rene lied to some extent and with so trihing
expense that it need hardly be reckoned.
In speaking of other farm buildings you
will please allow me to speak only from my
own Experience, which is said to be our best
teacher, and rely not merely upon observa-
ton, and then as before | leave you to dis
play your own tlste and fancy, regardless OF
what | may say upon the subject. In 1861
| built me a horse barn % X 40. at a cost o
1925. 1t would cost to-day nearly double
that amount, as all kinds OF material then
were very low, nails being less than $500
per cwt. and other things in prop ,rtlon.
My plan was to double board and cleat the
main body of the barn, having a basement or
cellar under the whole barn. THIS base
meat Was double boarded on the front side
and south end, the opposite side and north
end being walled with enbankment of earth
up nearly to ii level with the sill. In lid
basement | have my hog-pen with several
apartments, with convenIencIeS Tor changing
the swine from one to the other at my
leisure; also a Swill-room with large farmers
boiler set for the convenience OF the hog
family, with potatoe cellar in rear corner
where | Can drop my potatoes down from the
upper room with little trouble. Ia the hog
apartment | laid a plank q 'or over the whole
space that was TO be occupied by the manure,
laying 1t fat upon the ground alter scraplns
the earth TO ID perfect level. That hoor to-
day, after having been laid eleven and one
half years, is to all appe france as sound as
che day it was LAID, beng exposed but very
little OF the time to the air. Tue manure
from the stable drops directly through the
floor into the manure pit below, and muck
as often as needed is drawn INTO the upper
room and dropped through the same scuttle
into the manure pit where the swine, as
their wonted custom Is. spend much OF their
leisure tune IN roofing and Overturning the
entire mass, searching for pearls, or tor what
Is to them of equal value; and that they
search not in vain, a handful OF corn thrown
into the manure now and then may not be
amiSs.
The great ad n of this barn is the
comfort of my horses, which | never have to
blanket at all, and the benefit OF the manure
from horses, hogs, and muck being all
thoroughly worked together. This is of the
first qddlity, and It's Increased value over
that of the old barn where manure was all
thrown out of doors to be denched in the
storm, to heat and mould AMI burn until it
bee me nearly worthless, pays me more tlan
II per cent or the money the barn cost, and
[ might add 3 per cent more aud be safe. So
[ say, that Instead Of being ex travagant in
THROWING aside the old barn and building
new, it was grand economy, besides the COM
fort and convenience of a warm b IN for my
horses and an every day satisfaction to my
self.
In 1865 built me a corn barn at an ex-
pense of Sl50, I6 -, with posts running
three feet below the the sill, enclrcled with
tin lust below the sill for protection against
mice. | boarded and cheated the north side
and both ends of the barn, and on the south
side for cribs, / used 2! inch Stats with an
open space of I inch. My grain bins [ plan
, ed and matched, and in each apartment are
) openings of q or 3 feet space with boards
fitted, marked and numbered, to be inserted
at the top and slide downward as they are
!. needed. Thus if We please we may enclose
each apartment entire. | have also one small
, room done off for storing butter in tall or Tor
. any use | wish to make OF it. My corn crlt
-, on the south side of the barn is divided IDtc
+ two, and is made of three inch bass stats
r nailed fast except a ) feet space IN each
apartment, where | can insert the same width
slat at nv leisure. The door runs on rolls
at the bottom SO that a child four years ole
/ can open and shut it with ease, and on the
whole [ call it a model barn.
In 1868 | built me a large and commOdlOu,
rattle barn, 100 by 45 it., II #. posted, witt
bay Fl Jor and stable whole length ofbarn, ex
cept passage way at one end Ot stable anC
Y each end of bay. The bay is 20 it wide, the
, floor ii 10 It,, and the stable IL ID IT, The
-, floor to bay, high beams and scttfold. are al
. double boarded, 50 that no DIRT or dust i
falling through in either a apartment, to dls
=, turb the quiet of the laborer. My barn foo
: is planed and iointed, and to-day is waite
, tight. 1t is elevated Is inches above the sill
: az a matter of convenience, 90 that 10 teedln:
my cattle, | may, with a rake, shove the dus
and chaf that collect about the II Dor, IN.
. the manger, thus keeping the floor always Il
: good trim. Besides | am favorable to teedini
. a stock Of cattle from the fl 'or. instead o
teeding over a board PARTITION OF three lee
high. | have a PARTITION between each q
a my cattle Managers, 50 that each creature ha
its own iced, ana none are rODoeu oi Vuei
dues.
!, The platform on which my cattle stand i
!, elevated four inches, in the rear of which
u a Is inch wide space FOR the reception otma
! nure and of muck, which | use daily in sun
Il mer time, sufficient to absorb the liquid mad
!. from nv COWS. This manure is droppe
n through the q Dor into the cellar, for safe keek
ing until the time when it is needed for th
:" land, and is superior TO any thing that Cd
y be found among our farmers where it
e without shelter, as every farmer will testif
that has had experience in the matter.
~ 10 one stable [ tie 30 head of cattle. usin
W stanchions instead of chains, with an in
~ proved latch or fastener. Only for its being a
.ss invention of my own, l would say, that i
u nv opinion, it is superior to any thing no.