| Show SMALL STOCK BARN every convenience necessary within limited space please publish a plan for a barn to accommodate two horses two cows and to have a driveway tor hauling in hay I 1 would also like loft room tor three tons of hay and one ton ot straw I 1 would also like a hog house so situated that the manure from the ground floor clarn A horse stable cow stable feed room E F feed alley in front ot pig G gutter H p hog pen manure yard L driveway tl rough barn troughs N beam porting hayloft over the undershot horse stable could be thrown into it dally J H M fig 1 the ground floor plan of a barn 2230 ft the posts end ent pt small barn A hog pan barn C braces not in end but w center bent to do away with upper girt I 1 are 14 ft twig and the barn has a hipped the blotted une at N represent A beam which carries the hay loft at the forming att undershot to be used as a passage from which the horses and are fed when the driveway is occupied fig 2 represents tee end Tent the dotted lines extending from the perlene posts down to the beam are braces these do not belong to the end bent but to the center one where they do away with the necessity of a perlene girt so that a horse fork can be used in putting in hay to keep water out of cellar I 1 have a cellar 2333 feet under my house it has stone walls and brick floor during a wet time the cellar drain brings water into the liar to a depth of 2 feet 6 inches and water comes in by soakage also how would it answer to line the cellar wall with concrete and put in a concrete floor L G 0 it Is difficult to keep water out of cellar when there Is a continued soak age but if you are only troubled with it in the spring and tall of the year would advise the closing up of the present drain and putting in a con crete wall six inches thick against th stone wall on the inside of the cellar to the height required to keep the wa ter out and plaster with cement mor tar put in a concrete floor two inches thick on top of the brick hot torn now in use drain this to a con crele cistern built outside of the house tor this purpose by doing this you will not have to pump out the cistern more than once or twice a year if the cellar Is located in a very low place where water Is continually corn ing in put la a three inch floor and finish with sand two parts to portland cement one part and finish smooth with a trowel and closing up all drains moving a barn to move a small barn first jack it up high enough to lay planks length ways on the ground underneath the sills place rollers on these and un berneath der neath the sills of the barn about 8 ft apart lay planks on the ground ahead of the sills to receive the roll ers as the barn is moved ahead have a couple of extra rollers to lay on these to carry the sills until there is one tree behind then carry this one ahead and use again now fasten a sling or chain from each front corner post of the barn at the bottom of the post so as to hook on a double pulley block in the center of abe sling this keeps the barn from drawing off cor now anchor the other end ot the double block as tar ahead as the rope will allow hook on a team and watch the rollers keeping them in position by striking them with heavy sledge should they get turned angling you can move a consider able distance at a time in this way anchor as often as necessary until the barn is moved to the proper place should you have to move the barn in a circle lay the planks in the circle desired and angle the rollers to suit the curve and the barn will follow the plank track material and labor for wall how many bushels of lime would be required to build a stone foundation for a barn feet 8 feet high and 2 feet the spaces tor doors and w endows would amount to about 20 cubic beet how much labor would be required to build if A S the walls would take twenty nine and one half cords of stone one hun dred and fifty five bushels of lime and thirty one bards of sand one mason would require about thirty days to build same this includes pointing up in doing stone work a great deal depends upon the quality of the stone it good quarry stone Is aed a mason could build the wall in five or six days less than the time given |
