Farm echoes . have a full supply of hay im-mediately over them, as is the case in all my barns. The building on the west side of the square has recentlybeen enlarged to its present size, one hundred and fifty-one feet long, and contains stalls for fifty-two cows. Itconnects with the North Barn, forty feet wide, whichmakes up the length of the one hundred and ninety-onefeet barn on the east side. The Dairy Building, also recently enlarged, now meas-ures thirty-six feet by sixty-two feet, and is two and ahalf stories high. It contains on the first floor, a reception-room forvisitors, who are adm
Farm echoes . have a full supply of hay im-mediately over them, as is the case in all my barns. The building on the west side of the square has recentlybeen enlarged to its present size, one hundred and fifty-one feet long, and contains stalls for fifty-two cows. Itconnects with the North Barn, forty feet wide, whichmakes up the length of the one hundred and ninety-onefeet barn on the east side. The Dairy Building, also recently enlarged, now meas-ures thirty-six feet by sixty-two feet, and is two and ahalf stories high. It contains on the first floor, a reception-room forvisitors, who are admitted to the Butter Department onWednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from eleven oclockA. M, until four oclock P. M., churn-room, engine-room,room for washing tins, etc., three milk-rooms, one ofwhich is a tank-room, and two rooms for milk and butterboxes. A large, well-aired cellar, with cemented wallsand floor, is used for bottling milk. The second story contains a large room for milk boxes. 92 FAKM FARM ECHOES. 93 These boxes are taken to this room as they are returnedfrom New York and Brooklyn. Thence the bottles arecarried to the wash-room adjoining. Tlie boxes are thencleaned and got ready for use again. When needed theyare lowered to cellar by elevator, from there they aresent by four two-horse teams to the railroad depot fortransmission to Nen York and Brooklyn. The boiler-room connects with the dairy on the north,and hot-water pipes extend thence to every part of thedairy building, for heating and for washing purposes. The ice-house, having a capacity of more than fivehundred tons, is not far from the dairy. Some cows, generally those not giving milk, are keptin the barn shown in the picture on the opposite page. The horse-barn measures sixty-six feet by forty feet,with a communicating L fifty feet long, which givesroom for fourteen horses in a row. The wagon-room,forty-six feet by forty feet, has but one post—a mas-sive one in the center of the room—thus
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