each box being connected by lead pipes well secured
from frost, so that, if desired, each animal can be watered without
leaving the stall, or water can be kept constantly before it. A scuttle,
through which sweepings and refuse may be put into the cellar, is seen
at _f_. _g_ is a bin receiving cut hay from the third story, or
hay-room, _h h h h h h_, bins for grain-feed. _i_ is a tunnel to conduct
manure or muck from the hay-floor to the cellar. _j j_, sliding-doors on
wheels. The cows all face toward the open area in the centre.

This cow-room may be furnished with a thermometer, clock, etc., and
should always be well ventilated by sliding windows, which at the same
time admit the light.

The next cut is a transverse section of the same cow-room; _a_ being a
walk behind the cows, five feet wide; _b_, dung-pit; _c_, cattle-stand;
_d_, feeding-trough, with a bottom on a level with the platform where
the cattle stand; _k_, open area, forty-three feet, by fifty-six.

[Illustration: TRANSVERSE SECTION.]

The story above the cow-room--as represented in the next cut--is one
hundred feet by forty-two; the bays for hay, ten on each side, being ten
feet front and fifteen feet deep; and the open space, _p_, for the
entrance of wagons, carts, etc., twelve feet wide. _b_, hay-scales. _c_,
scale beam. _m m m m m m_, ladders reaching almost to the roof. _l l l_,
etc., scuttle-holes for sending vegetables directly to the bins, _l l l_,
etc., below. _a a b b_, rooms on the corners for storage. _d_,
scuttles; four of which are used for straw, one for cut hay, and one for
muck for the cellar. _n_ and the other small squares are eighteen-feet
posts. _f_, passage to the tool-house, a room one hundred feet long by
eighteen wide. _o_, stairs leading to the scaffold in the roof of the
tool-house. _i i_, benches. _g_, floor. _h_, boxes for hoes, shovels,
spades, picks, iron bars, old iron, etc. _j j j_, bins for fruit. _k_,
scuttles to put apples into wagons, etc., in the shed below. One side of
this tool-house may be used for plows and large implements, hay-rigging,
harness, etc.

Proper ventilation of the cellar and the cow-room avoids the objection
that the hay is liable to injury from noxious gases.

[Illustration: ROOM OVER THE COW-ROOM.]

The excellent manure-cellar beneath this barn extends only under the
cow-room. It has a drive-way through doors on each side. No barn-cellar
should be kept shut up tight, even in cold weather. T