. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE STEADING OR FARMSTEAD. 107 threshing the cora, are made on the ground, and the barn-door is made as large as to admit a loaded cart to enter and empty its contents on the floor. (58.) In fig. 16, AA are two granaries over the sheds DD, implement- house G, and hay-house H, in fig. 4, Plate IV. That on the left is 76 feet in length and 18 feet in width, and the other 65 feet in length and 18 feet in width. The side walls of both are 5 feet in
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE STEADING OR FARMSTEAD. 107 threshing the cora, are made on the ground, and the barn-door is made as large as to admit a loaded cart to enter and empty its contents on the floor. (58.) In fig. 16, AA are two granaries over the sheds DD, implement- house G, and hay-house H, in fig. 4, Plate IV. That on the left is 76 feet in length and 18 feet in width, and the other 65 feet in length and 18 feet in width. The side walls of both are 5 feet in hight. Their roofs ascend to the slates. Their wooden floors should be made strong, to support a considerable weight of grain; their walls well plastered with hair plaster; and a neat skifting-board should finish the flooring. Each granary has 6 windows, three in front and three at the back, and there is one in the ga- ble, at the left hand over the door of the implement-house. These win- dows should be so formed as to admit light and air very fi-eely, and 1 know of no forai of window so capable of affording both, as this in fig. 17, which I have found very serviceable in granaries. The opening is 4^ feet in length and 3 feet in hight. In the frame a are a glazed sash 1 foot in hight, composed of two rows of panes, and b Venetian shutters, which may be opened more or less at pleasure : c shows in section the manner in which these shutters operate. They revolve by their ends, formed of the shape of a round pin, in holes in the side-posts of the frame d, and are kept in a parallel position to each other by the bar c, which is attached to Fig. GRANARY WIiVDOW AND SECTION OF SHUTTERS. them by an eye of iron, moving stiff on an iron pin passing through both the eye and bar c. The granary on the right hand being the smallest, and immediately over the work-horse corn-chest, should be appropriated to the use of horse-com and other small quantities of grain to be first used. The ot
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