The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-10
SCIENTIFIC rAaxINe j

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Theodore usvemsverssi Great Rrpsr1-
mont In the Rsnsps VALLEY. f
J" Mountain Side" the farm Of Mr..
Theodore A. Hsvemeyer, Of New York.
lies In Bergen county, New Jersey.
twenty-nine miles from New York city,
In the beautiful Ramapo valley, which
at this point Is scarcely O mile wide.
Through The farm, from north TO south,
flows the Ramapo river. "Mountain
Side" comprises six hundred acres,
three hundred Of which lie In the val.
ley and are under cultivation, and the
remainder on the sides OF the noun.
tains. which at this point rise to the
height Of about six hundred feet. The
farm is under the superintendence and
management OF Mr.. John Mayer, an
educated farmer, who learned his art In
the State Of Rhode Island, and who Il
assisted by foreman, and employs In
the management Of the farm from thirty
to forty men, who ara all comfortably
cared for In suitable cottages. In the
construction Of the buildings an aver
age number Of seventy-five men were
half.
The main road from Suffarns to
Pompton passes almost through the
center Of Mountain Side, from north to
south. Mr.. Havemeyer's barn, dairy
and silos are comprised in one building,
forming the letter 4. The barn proper
stands east and west, and contains the
cattle-foor, the hay loft, feed bins ard
manure-cellars. The south wing con.
tains the ice-house, dairy, enaine-room
and On kop f,x. a IL r ~
north wing are the silos. The length
OF the barn from east to west IL 269
feet, its width forty.four feet; the length
from north 10 south, including the diary
and sjlos, is 283 feet, the south end
being thirty-one feet wide, and the
north end, or silos, forty feet wide.
Beneath the barn on each side and di.
rectly under the cattle are the manure.
cellars, each fourteen feet IN width and
$50 in length. Under the center 81 the
barn and surrounded by the manure
beds is room for keeping roots, $50
feet long and fifteen feet wide, with
stone walls and cemented sides and
bottom; this root cellar Is tborouRhly
ventilated by flues Of its own, quite dis.
connected from those for the manure
cellar and for the cattle door above. !
At the extreme west end Of the
barn cellar. between the two
cartways, II built Q cistern OF o..
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times are tept some o. The most yAlu-
able animals, and others, When they ere
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