The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-08

the box should be slanting, and open
towards the feed-hoor There should be
two doors on the back side, four feet
long-one at, or near the top, and the
other just below. The tops should be
open, thus giving chance to pitch the
hay, even when the bays are full, di-
rectly into the feed-hoors, where it is
wanted, thereby doing away with a
scuttle in the upper floor, and saving
the labor of pitching the hay over two
or three times. There should be a
door where this box opens into the
floor. There should be another door
by the side of this, leading directly
into the bay, thus keeping all scent, if
there should be any, from the hay.
Now we have barn forty-eight feet
wide, constable eighteen feet, barn
floor twelve feet, bay eighteen feet-and
all without any long timbers. In the
upper floor one of the posts on the cow
stable side should be left out and an
extra beam put in the perline posts
lengthwise of the barn, and this trussed
to support the roof, thus giving room
thirty feet by thirtY-two feet, space
enough to turn any kind of team. On
each side of this there should be two
large ventilators, reaching to the roof
and open at the bottom, directly over
the gutter in the constable. There
should also be two running from the
basement up back of the pens in the
constable and connecting with these
in the loft. The meal-room and grain
airy should be over the horse-stable,
with spouts down into the feedhoor.
The bays will be twenty-four feet deep
and not go below the feed-foor, thus
giving the whole of the basement for
manure and pens. There should be
low partition to prevent the manure
under the stables from spreading, leav-
ing all room under the bays and floor
for pens. The partition should be made
movable, to be set aside when you wish
to get out the manure.
Now, instead of covering the bridge
into the upper floor, would continue
the barn out over the bridge, and on
one side l would have room for all
kinds of farm machinery; on the other,
room to store carriages in winter and
sleds and sleighs in summer. Under
the bridge [ would have a carriage
room. This, of course, will be as wide
as the bridge is long and forty-eight
feet in length, the width of the barn.
This gives plenty of room 10 drive in
team and turn the carriages, and you
can always harness and unharness under
cover. l would have a door leading
into the horse-stable from this room,
and one into the cow-stable; also a
double door into the feed-foor. Under
the carriage-room l would have root
cellar, just as small or large as l wished,
with trap door through which could
dump the roots. A door opening from
this cellar into the main cellar makes it
easy of access. OF course there will be
bank wall at the upper end of the
main barn, so there would be no base
ment to this bridge addition. This car
riage-room also makes a handy place
to hang up all hand-tools, where they
are always handy.
Here we have a barn that will hold
from seventy-fve to one hundred tons
of hay, with horse-stable, constable,
meal and grain-rooms, storerooms for
all carriages and machinery, with plenty
of cellar-room, and calf, colt and sheep
pens in abundance-all under one roof.
But there are still many more things to
be thought of-such as the size of the
timbers, the feeding of the colts and
sheep, which can be done from the
feed-hoor, the place for silo, if
wanted, the placing of the power and
cutter advantageously, the building of
the silo, the construction of the venti-
lators, the storage of bedding for cow
stable, the finishing of the meal and
grain-rooms so as to be mice-proof, and
numberless other things that 60 to
make up the model barn. Now, if you
have had the patience to follow me
through, only hope you may be able to
get some idea that will help you in
building barn. l.. A. PAQUIN.
South Cabot, VT.