BARN AND MANURE SEED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3536, 20 June 1905, Page 4

BARN AND MANURE SEED.

Just the Kind of a Structure Needed J. by Farmers Who Cannot Spend f Much Honey. I offer the plan of a small barn and manure shed, cheap and thoroughly strong. It is 30x50 feet, shed and all. The shed is for manure and can be used for a place to drive in to unhitch or to ’ leave team hitched during rain, etc. ' In this barn there is no expensive bridge to build or strong barn floor to construct, for the driveway is on level . ground or the*ground raised gently to > keep water out. This makes driving in easy and no backing down a steep grade to get out, as there are slide doors so as to drive clear through. The bay on the right of main drire-

. FRONT ELEVATION OF BARN, way is 12x15x30 feet, and could be made , 13 feet 1 wide byextending joists out over driveway This would T still leave- enough room. If the bays on left o; driveway are both used for hay it \v< .. be.2b feet wide i;-y 30 feet long, but )vouhJ not all be the.same depth, as the stud floor is higher than - the rest. I( .■•’'■■•iihl be about 12% feet from floor to ground. This will make ■ ( it so a large load of hay can pass through easily. If this shed is built on the south end of barn 1 would weatherboard between the two west

PLAN OF BARN. O S, open shed; B S. box stalls; S, stalls; S D, slide door; D, driveway on level ground. posts and hang a large slide door on west side to keep out storm. This would put three slide doors on the west side of barn, but they can work all right, if they are not all wanted open at once. If this barn is all used for hoy it would hold over 30 tons, but if the shed mow is wanted for straw I would fill the other with hay built up straight; a then with a hay sling the straw could lie thrown over the haymow easily an 1 would be convenient to get .'or bedding. Thirty feet is quite n narrow barn, but it ran be enlarged to almost any size desired. This stable has a box stall in each end and stalls enough for ten - horse,s or cows, ami b ' rutting off one % «nd of -he driveway with a light rack .?• to keep it i d in, the rest coaid he used to slahic a bunch of sheep or calves by hanging light racks on wall, for mangers. I think this barn would suit a small farm in many respects. I would not keep any bulk grain in a barn. Haymows, grain bins and ra: ■> don’t suit in one building.—W. D. Watson, in Ohio Farmer, Honcn Require Good Wafer. Jf n horse could speak he would at times remonstrate against the treatment accorded him by his masters. For instance, when driven to a stagnant pond or muddy creek for a drink would be. one occasion for him to express his displeasure. But he cannot speak and apparently his master, in too many cases, cannot see, and the result is ilis faithful beast drinks water with a green skum on it from a shallow pond teeming with all kinds of “animals,” or from a milk-warm creek or branch that happens to be handy. Good water is abundant everywhere; if not on the surface it is beneath only a few feet perhaps. Dig it out from the bosom of the earth and enjoy the bounties of nature.— Farmers’ Voice. Noonday Heat for Hone*. Except in haying aud harvesting I never permit a team to be worked in the. middle of the day when the thermometer is high. There is no need of it, If the farmer has his work in hand. Getting lo work two hours before breakfast and working until dark will give a very long breathing spell in the hottest part of the day. It may require some extra help to do the chores, under such a system, but on a farm on which considerable help is employed affairs can be so arranged that some of the men who are not driving teams can do the chores night ana morning, including the milking. At all events the saving of the horse in the middle of the day is a valuable feature in farm management.— Agricultural Epitomist. Keep the pigs g. v..com start to finish. When they cease to grow they «ease to be profitable. Save seeds of everything from the best in the patch. Do not forget this. Chamberlain’s Tablets n — u ■ ciipp