. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . at top, and are left down half the year; the two-feetprojection of the roof protects them from all storms. Cellar ialighted by four double windows and the side-light at head ofstairs. The open space, 13 feet long, at end of floor, admit a 134 The House. the horse, so that the hay-cart is brought to the center of thebam for unloading. A scaffold 13 feet long is put over thefloor, and 12 feet above it. This small barn, Mr. Chamberlain says, will store 20 tons ofhay. IV.—ME. BECKWITHS OCTAGON BARN


. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . at top, and are left down half the year; the two-feetprojection of the roof protects them from all storms. Cellar ialighted by four double windows and the side-light at head ofstairs. The open space, 13 feet long, at end of floor, admit a 134 The House. the horse, so that the hay-cart is brought to the center of thebam for unloading. A scaffold 13 feet long is put over thefloor, and 12 feet above it. This small barn, Mr. Chamberlain says, will store 20 tons ofhay. IV.—ME. BECKWITHS OCTAGON BARN The annexed cut represents the basement plan of the barnerected by E. W. Beckwith, Principal of the Boys BoardingSchool, at Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut, in Sep-tember, 1858. The beauty and convenience of the arrangement for stallsand feeding can be seen at a glance. The octagon form isadopted because it is best adapted to inclose the desired plan. This building, 30^ feet short diameter, 12^ feet each side, or100 feet inside circumference, and 13 feet each outside, or 104 Fig. Basement Plan. feet circumference when the wall is 14 inches thick, as in thepresent case, incloses an area of 750 feet. The wall is grouted stone work, laid up between planks cutthe right length for each inside and outside of angle, lield to Barns, Etc. 135 the proper distance apart by cast-iron clamps pierced withholes at each end to receive the iron dowels driven into eachedge of the planks. These planks, when in an upright positionon the wall, should be plumbed and staylathed preparatory tolaying the stone. The basement floor is cemented, the horsesstanding on a movable slat-work, which keeps the beddingdry. The height of this story should be eight feet; the clearspace from the stalls to the wall, four feet wide ; the stalls sixfeet long, including manger-box, which leaves a circle in thecenter about ten feet diameter as the base of a cone, overwhich all the feed is thrown down to th


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