The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . size has littlereference to the extent of the farm. This is more par-ticularly the case where water or steam power is em-ployed for thrashing ; a certain amount of space beingrequired to contain the machinery in the corn anddressing barns, their dimensions are in a greatermeasure regulated by this, and the straw barn is adaptedto the amount of work which the machinery performs. Being necessarily connected together, the barns donot admit of much diversity of arrangement. Thestraw barn may be a continuation in a straight line ofthe dressing and
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . size has littlereference to the extent of the farm. This is more par-ticularly the case where water or steam power is em-ployed for thrashing ; a certain amount of space beingrequired to contain the machinery in the corn anddressing barns, their dimensions are in a greatermeasure regulated by this, and the straw barn is adaptedto the amount of work which the machinery performs. Being necessarily connected together, the barns donot admit of much diversity of arrangement. Thestraw barn may be a continuation in a straight line ofthe dressing and corn barns, or it may cross them atright angles, thus J., where the horizontal limb of theinverted X represents the straw barn in two divisions, avery convenient arrangement, and the vertical line thecorn barn. In this ease the straw falls from the rakesof the thrashing machine into the centre of the strawbarn, and is conveyed right and left to be stored ;another and very good arrangement, and one easilyapplied in practice, is the following :—. ! E lEi J Li . Fig. 1 is a plan of the ground or dressing barn floor;and fig. 2 a plan of the corn barn floor. In the formerA is the dressing barn, B is the chaff house, and C partof the straw barn. In fig. 2, D is the corn barn ; atE, the position of the thrashing machine is indicated bydotted lines ; the motive power may be at F. In thisarrangement, the whole space from a to 6 is available for storing unthrashed corn ; the granary may be in thedirection H or I, or it extend over the straw much for the arrangements of the barnsin themselves ?— when considering the motive powerand its applications, I shall again have to advert tothem. It would confuse the subject to treat of themodifications in the disposition of the barns required toadmit of the utmost advantage being taken of the poweremployed to drive the thrashing machine in the prepara-tion of food and other matters. I shall, therefore, pro-ceed to the con
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