. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . ent as possible. * The floor of the main barn is three feet higher than thatof the stables. This will allow a cellar under it, if desired—ora deeper extension of the bays—and it allows storage lofts overthe cattle, with sufficient slope of roof. A short flight ofsteps at the ends of each passage admits easy access from thelevel of the barn floor. The line of mangers is two feet wide. A manure windowis placed at every 12 feet. Tlie stalls are double; that is,for two animals each, which are held t
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . ent as possible. * The floor of the main barn is three feet higher than thatof the stables. This will allow a cellar under it, if desired—ora deeper extension of the bays—and it allows storage lofts overthe cattle, with sufficient slope of roof. A short flight ofsteps at the ends of each passage admits easy access from thelevel of the barn floor. The line of mangers is two feet wide. A manure windowis placed at every 12 feet. Tlie stalls are double; that is,for two animals each, which are held to their places by a ropeand chain, attaclied to a staple and rinf at each corner of the Barns, Etc 131 stall. This mode is preferred to securing by stanchions. Apole or scantling, placed over their heads, prevents them fromclimbing so as to get their feet into the mangers, which theyare otherwise very apt to do. The sheds, which extend on the three sides of the barn, LL SHEnS to =.rn o 1 111 111 iM 1 nil ? 1 * SAVS 30NvaiN3 uoonj Nivn J K\flK dvy3 I-1 \ SAV8 H r Tiiiiiiniiii 1 I 5 1 c Sa3HS. and touch it at the rear end, are on a level with the inclined plane, from the main floor through the middle ofthe back shed, forms a rear egress for wagons and carts, de-scending three feet from tlie floor. The two rooms, one oneach side of this rear passage, 16 by 84 feet, may be used for 132 The House. housing sick animals, cows about to calve, or any other pur-pose required. The stables at the front ends of the sheds areconvenient for teams of horses or oxen, or they may be fittedfor wagon-houses, tool-houses, or other purposes. The rooms,16 feet square at the inner corners of the sheds, may be usedfor weak ewes, lambs, or for a bull-stable. Racks or mangers may be fitted up in the open sheds forfeeding sheep or young cattle, and yards may be built adjoin-ing, on the rear, six or eight in number, into which they mayrun and be kept separate. Barred partitions may separate
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