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Title: The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Almanacs, American
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 187 PLAN OF A SMALLER BASEMENT. The following plan of the basement of a barn 40 by 65 feet, was furnishedby B. B., of Pittsburgh. It possesses some peculiar advantages, and hassome defects. We would suggest that a part of the central portion beused as a root cellar, leaving room enough to pass around in front of theanimals. Its central position would tend to protect the roots from freez-ing, and they might be easily filled in by dumping through a trap doorabove, or through a shute in the side walls.
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I A and B. Horse-stalls, 5 by 6 feet, with troughs and open box mangers^ —floors slightly inclined and paved. /j B. Open stalls for transient horses.—C. Large entrance to feeding floor ()J88 ^O^ ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER D. Cow-stalls, 4 by 4, with floor inclining to the trench—which catchesall droppings and the liquid manure. E. Grain boxes, 5 by 5, to which grain is conducted by cloth spout fromthe threshing floor above. F. Steam tank—wooden, with a tight lid, fed with steam through a pipefrom a boiler without, and with cut feed through a cloth or wooden con-ductor from the floor above. G. The feeding floor—elevated about 14 inches above the stable floor,tightly planked, and supplied with hay, &c., from tlie mows above. The doors and windows are numerous, for abundant light and ventilatiionjand the windows should be closed with gla7.ed sash in the winter season.The horse-stalls should be boarded only a part of the way up, and eachupright supplied Avith stout pins for

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