. Barn plans and outbuildings . n, Figure 98, inwhich a is the grain pit, h the spring house, c the feedpassage, and d the manure gutters. The same is seen incross-section in Figure 99. The barn floor, shown in Fig-ure 101, has four bays and three floors. Two of the floorshave sliding doors, opening into the barn yard, andspacious windows above them, as seen in Figure are made in the floors, by which hay is throwndown into the feed passage. These also serve for ventila-tion, in connection with the cupolas upon the roof. ANOTHER NEW YORK BARN 111 ANOTHER ORANGE COUNTY^ N. Y., DAIRY B
. Barn plans and outbuildings . n, Figure 98, inwhich a is the grain pit, h the spring house, c the feedpassage, and d the manure gutters. The same is seen incross-section in Figure 99. The barn floor, shown in Fig-ure 101, has four bays and three floors. Two of the floorshave sliding doors, opening into the barn yard, andspacious windows above them, as seen in Figure are made in the floors, by which hay is throwndown into the feed passage. These also serve for ventila-tion, in connection with the cupolas upon the roof. ANOTHER NEW YORK BARN 111 ANOTHER ORANGE COUNTY^ N. Y., DAIRY BARN The accompanying engravings illustrate a milk dairy-barn, belonging to J. E. S. Gardner of Orange County,N. Y. The barn is 110 feet long, thirty-two feet wide,twenty feet high, with a basement nine feet high. Thebuilding is on a slope, facing west. In front is a pit forpreserving brewers grains, thirty feet long, nine deep,and sixteen wide. The interior arrangements are veryconvenient. Figure 103 shows the main floor. There. Fig. 102 VIEW OF AN ORANGE COUNTY^ N. Y.^ BARN are six horse stalls, sixteen feet long, with a manurechute in the center, leading to the manure pit in the base-ment beneath; a driving floor, twenty feet wide, withstairs and feed room, and a hay mow, seventy-two bythirty-two feet, with hay chutes leading to the feedingfloor below. Figure 104 shows a plan of the basement,in which are thirty-six stanchions along the center, withdoors at each end. In front of the cows is an alley, six-teen feet wide, for feeding, through which a wagon canbe driven from end to end. Behind the stanchions is a 112 BARN PLANS AiM) OUTBUIMJINGS standing platform for the cows, with a drop fifteen incheswide, then a walk of three feet, and a manure pit sevenand one-half feet wide and four feet deep, with a cementJioor. In the rear are several sliding doors, one in each , MANURE SHOOT Ifeed L BAY MOW73X3£ FLOOR ?- a: . o HAr SHOOr HAY SHOOT n n STAIRS mill ? M Fig. 103—PLAN OF M
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