oot, and allow a line of
eave gutters under it, if needed, and to show the lean-to line of roof
as distinct from the other. The stables are 7 feet high, from the lower
floor to the girts overhead, which connect them with the main line of
barn posts; thus giving a loft of 4 feet in height at the eaves, and of
12 feet at the junction with the barn. In this loft is large storage for
hay, and coarse forage, and bedding for the cattle, which is put in by
side windows, level with the loft floor--as seen in the plate. In the
center of the rear, _end_ lean-to, is a large door, corresponding with
the front entrance to the barn, as shown in the design, 12 feet high,
and 14 feet wide, to pass out the wagons and carts which have discharged
their loads in the barn, having entered at the main front door. A line
of board, one foot wide, between the line of the main and lean-to roofs,
is then nailed on, to shut up the space; and the rear gable end boarded
down to the roof of the lean-to attached to it. The front end, and the
stables on them vertically boarded, and battened, as directed in the
last design; the proper doors and windows inserted, and the outside is
finished.

[Illustration: FLOOR PLAN.]

INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT.

Entering the large door, (_a_,) at the front end, 14 feet wide, and 14
feet high, the main floor (_g_,) passes through the entire length of the
barn, and rear lean-to, 116 feet--the last 16 feet through the
lean-to--and sloping 3 feet to the outer sill, and door, (_a_,) of that
appendage. On the left of the entrance is a recess, (_e_,) of 20x18
feet, to be used as a thrashing floor, and for machinery, cutting feed,
&c., &c.--5 feet next the end being cut off for a passage to the stable.
Beyond this is a bay, (_b_,) 18x70 feet, for the storage of hay, or
grain, leaving a passage at the further end, of 5 feet wide, to go into
the further stables. This bay is bounded on the extreme left, by the
line of outside posts of the barn. On the right of the main door is a
granary, (_d_,) 10x18 feet, two stories high, and a flight of steps
leading from the lower into the upper room. Beyond this is another bay,
(_b_,) corresponding with the one just described on the opposite side.
The passages at the ends of the bays, (_e_, _e_,) have steps of 3 feet
descent, to bring them down on to a level with the stable floors of the
lean-to. A passage in each of the two long side lean-to's, (_e_, _e_,) 3
feet wide, receives the hay fo