Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

barn, except passage way at one end Of sta
BILE and each end Of bay. The bay is 20 fl.
wide, the floor IL 1-2 f., and the stable l3
1-2 #. The floor to bay, high beams and
scaffold, are all double boarded SO that no
dirt or dust is falling through in either apart
ment, to disturb the quiet Of the laborer.-
My barn floor Is planed and jointed, and to-
day is water tight. It is elevated Is inches
above the sill, as a matter Of convenience, so
that in feeding my cattle, l may with rake
shove the dust and chaff that collect about
the floor into the manger, thus keeping the
floor always in good trim. Besides l am fa-
vorable to feeding stock of cattle from tho
floor, instead Of feeding over board parti-
ton of three feet high. l have a partition
between each Of my cattle hangers, 50 that
each creature has its own feed, and none are
robbed of their dues.
The platform on which my cattle stand is
elevated four inches, in the rear Of which is
Is inch wide space for the reception of ma
nure and of muck, which use daily in sum-
mer time, sufficient to absorb the liquid made
from my COWS. This manure is dropped
through the floor into the cellar, for safe
keeping until the time when it is needed for
the land, and is superior to anything that can
be found among our farmers where it is with
out shelter, as every farmer will testify that
has had experience in the matter.
In one stable tie 32 head of cattle, using
stanchions instead of chains, with an improv-
ed latch or fastener. Only for its being an
invention of my own, would say that in
my opinion it is superior to anything now in
use, being at all times perfectly safe, never
needing any repairs, and like the boys cedar
rails, will last thousand years for he said
his father had tried it out and out.
My barn is boarded and cleated on all
sides, the stable double boarded on the inside,
making it very comfortable for my stock in
all weathers The roof is slated, and on this
| have fine cupola for ventilation of barn.
In the basement have a stable in which l
can tie fourteen head of young cattle. have
also fitted in one end of the bay comforta-
bic room for my hens, giving them, besides
said room, the whole bigness of barn cellar
for play ground, using picket gates to each of
the stairways to prevent them from coming
up into the upper part of the barn. Thus
they have every convenience for their happi-
ness except the patent nest, which presume
most of you may have heard of, but fearing
they might be so busily engaged in laying as
to never know when to stop, and the evil
prove fatal in their case, concluded not best
to put that patent in, but try and be satisfied
with less eggs. In the basement part Of the
barn have root cellar, about II Is it.,
in which l can keep roots through the entire
winter without freezing. My yard is on the
south side of the barn, with shed running
from southwest corner of barn, 4G feet south
making the yard warm and comfortable, il
pleasant weather. | have a never-faiing
spriEg of water, twelve rods above my barn
which supplies my stock from very arg,
water-trough in the middle of yard, and from
thence is conducted to another tank in tn,
basement where my young stock are supplied
With all the convenences referred to- cal
fodder stock of fifty head of cattle in TWEEN
ty minutes, and can do it easier than coulC
in twice that length of time in barns situated
as many OF our farm buildings are. There ar,
other particulars that might be mentioned
but it is not necessary here. The cost o
barn and shed complete is about $4,000.
do not speak of this, gentlemen, to boas
of my buildings or what have done by way
of improvement; but merely to convince 20,
that good thing is actually better than
poor one. l may utterly fail however to ac
complish my object after l have said ALL
Says one, you are extravagant and you hav,
been to needless expense, and more thai
that you will never get your money back
Well, my friend, how do you know that fact
Let us see. will 60 back to 1867, and t,
years previous to that. Then had no con
venences for saving fodder, or making ma
nure, being obliged to throw all the manur,
out Of doors to be leached and bleached il
sun and storm, thus losing nearly all the liq
uid and much of the strength of the solid
We thought we were doing well if we accu
mulated 200 loads of manure annually. No
feeling fully satisfied with such results cam
back to estimate the loss and profit in m
style Of doing things on the more improves
plan, and in striking balance, see if ther
remain anything to my credit In the frs
place We say the interest of money on cost o
barn is $3.50 per annum. l have becom
fully satisfied that save in fodder equal h
five tons Of hay annually, which at $l4 pc
ton would amount to So 1 am as full,
: satisfied that make $50 loads and more o
manure annually above what | ever mad
: when l occupied the old buildings and which
for convenience sake, we will call 81 0C
per load, (but, by the way you farmers woul
: not take $500 per load, were it on your Ow
6 farms This will give us profit of $3.50
n added to the $40, it will make 1920. This
b gentlemen, is not exaggeration. But will
b do to make those figures little stronger
r If | have succeeded in gain of $50 loads q
Q manure, to carry back on to my farm, wha
d is the probability of the result of this yearl
$ increase2 Am l not to expect similar il
J, crease of population from the soil thus PROF
g erly fed, and moro and more each succeedin
L year2 think ! have right to expect i
: ALLOW me to say that from "A cows mad