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BAR the stables in return are buttresses to the barn, and strengthen it greatly." Tins building is of the follow- ing dimensions : The length of the barn inside is 6S feet ; its width 22, 1 ; the height of the sides 17 feet ; of the front doors 15 feet ; of the back doors 8 feet and 6 inches ; the stable at each side, in length 26 feet 6 inches, in width 14 feet ; the door 4 feet 5 the threshing-floor has in front an entrance of 1 1 feet ; behind, of Q feet 6 inches ; and the width of the porch is 14 feet. The whole expence of erecting this fabric, in the year 1/91, was stated to be nearly three hundred pounds. Mr. Arthur Young has, in the same volume, inserted a plan for a barn, and other buildings neces- sary for cattle. The dimensions of this structure were given in conse- quence of a request made by the late General Washington to the author, that he would send him a sketch of a good barn, and the ne- cessary out-buildings, proportioned to a farm of five hundred acres. The threshing-floor is large enough for three men to work on, who, in the course of a winter, can thresh the corn produced on such a farm. This plan appears to us, by far the most advantageous of any that has fallen under our observation : we have therefore been induced to describe it, for the information of our readers. The inner width of the barn is 2/ feet square, on each side of the threshing-floor. The porch 11 feet 4 inches, by 12 feet 3. inches. Threshing-floor 3Q feet by 20, on its upper end, and 12| feel at the smaii door of the porch, which is 6£ feet in width. The great door BAR D>-?: at which the carts enter with corn, ■ 14 feet Q inches. The sheds for catde, on the four longitudinal sides of the bays, are 27 feet by 12. Mangers,' 2 feet broad, out of which the cattle eat their food. The passages for carrying the straw from the threshing-floor to feed the cattle, are between two and three feet wide. Each passage has a door ; there are four principal posts to each shed, besides the smaller ones, and gutters for conveying the urine to four cisterns, from which it is every day thrown upon dunghills, placed at a convenient distance. From the mangers to the gutters there is a pavement of bricks upon a slope, laid in such a manner as to terminate 6 inches perpendicular above the gutters; which pavement is 6 feet broad from that edge to the manger. The gutters are from 18 to 20 inches broad. There are four sheds for various uses, one at each corner of the threshing-floor. At each end of the barn there are two yards with a shed, to be applied to any purpose wanted: one for sheep, surrounded with low racks, and the other divided for a horse, or two, loose, if necessary : the other half is for yearling calves, which thrive better in a farm-yard, than when stalled. These yards are inclosed by walling, or pales. The main body of the barn rises 14, 10', or 20 feet to the eaves. There are various sheds placed against the waling, as this is the cheapest way of sheltering cattle that has yet been discovered. — Should the number of cattle in- tended to be kept, be greater than here admitted, a circular shed may be ere&ed fronting the small door of the porch, and the hay-slack* be conveniently disposed near those sheds