The Portland daily press., 1883-08-14
The Model Farm Barn.

The model barn, when it is built, t,will stand
upon ground so nearly level that teams can
enter at one end and go out at the other,
thus avoiding backing or turning round.
The driveway will be wide enouth for the
entrance of good sized load of hay, and
probably wide enough for one light carriage
to pass another in the floor; and the space
under the seaffolds, upon each side, will be
high enough to permit the farmer to stand
erect, which will give better air for the stock
thus housed. The cellar under the main
building will not be intended either for
keeping poultry or swine, or for the manure
heaps, but will be well adapted for storage
of roots of all kinds, WEIGH should never be
stored in the house cellar. The latter should
be used only for storing fruits, preserves,
meats for Winter use, and possibly for fuel,
if there is not better place outside for that,
as there should be when wood is used. 1t
will have an entrance from the outside,
where the team can bring roots to the door,
if not inside the cellar, and another from
above by which they can be brought up to
the barn without going out of doors in
Winter, and the outside entrance will have
double doors, which will effectually shut
out the cold air of Winter. 1t will be light
enough to see to work at any time of day
without a lantern, and the windows will be
so arranged as to allow of thorough ventila-
tion in hot weather. If the land be dry
enough, and the barn large enough, there
may be place in the cellar for storing carts,
sleds, plows, moving machines and other
tools, but especially for those which are used
only few months in the year. Even when
the cellar is naturally little damp it can
be used for that purpose, If wood
work is painted once year, and iron
work is kept well oiled. The
The cattle will stand upon one
side of the driveway in stalls large
enough to give them room to lie down COM
fortably. A tight flooring between the cat
tie and the NOW above, and swinging door
in front of them. will keep their breath, also
the odor from themselves and their excre-
ments, from tainting the hay, or seenting
the barn, while their droppings will be put
outside into a shed intended for that pur-
pose. If the ground slopes sufficiently the
windows for throwing out the manure will
be low enough for convenient handling.
This shed or manure pis will have cement
ed bottom and sides, so that no part of the
liquids with their valuable salts can be lost,
and series of pipes under the stable floors
will conduct all the liquids into this pit. 1t
may be desirable for the house slops and
soap suds to be conducted through the out
house vaults and water closets, so that all
their accumulations will be deposited with
the manure from the stables. Opposite the
cattle will be grain room, on the other
side of the driveway, and near the centre OF
it, so that there will not be much travel re-
quired to give the stock their grain. If the
horses are kept under the same roof as the
cattle, there will be harness room, and .
room for the family carriages, and business
wagons, opening out of the driveway, and
perhaps shut off from 1t by sliding doors. II
the barn be large enough, there may also be
a tool room, where the smallest tools can be
kept. In this room should be provided
bench, and such carpenters tools as will en-
able the farmer to do such little jobs OF
mending broken implements as he has skill
for and can find time to do upon rainy days.
Some farmers may think it necessary to
have apparatus for cutting hay and roots,
and possibly horse power for driving them,
located at some convenient point in the
building, or the power may be in an adjoin-
ing shed and connected by belts with the mar
chimes, which will not take up much room
in the barn. If many roots are to be fed,
there should be an elevator for bringing them
from the cellar below, and where ensilage IS
fed from a silo attached to the barn or near
it from the silo can run will save much la
Dor. The building will be well lighted by
windows, and have doors in convenient
places, so that it will not be necessary to go
around the barn on the outside, after going
out of tito reach any place where It is neces-
sary to so frequently from Cno Darn
the house, hennery,. piggery or
other sub-buildings. The barn will
be high posted, so that there may
he sufficient room for storing hay, and
horse hay forks and hay carriers will make
easy work of putting the hay upon the scaf-
folds in any part of the building, and the
scaffolds above the driveway will be so ar
ranged that it can be taken up in such place
or places as to allow convenient handling OF
hay. If water can be conveniently obtained
by pipes, or even from pump, it may easily
be so planned that it can flow by the animals
in their stalls, so that they may be watered
without being turned out of doors in cold,
stormy weather. Other arrangements may
be made, such as providing calf pens, bins
for holding absorbents for use in the stables,
etc., as the fancy of the owner may dictate,
but the sheep, swine and poultry should
have no place in the barn with the cattle or
the horses. There should be doors to smut
up each part or room in the barn from tne
other parts, and all doors on outside and ln-
side should slide upon rollers rather than
swing upon hinges, Such structure,
when well insured, with its contents, against
fire and lightning, might well be called q
model arn.-American CultlVator.