Coalville Times | 1903-06-26 | Page 6 | Barn Keeps Steadily Growing

Barn Keeps Steadily Growing. Tan Crawley, a farmer of Iho Coral Hill rountry In Kentucky, had a novel experience. A fuw years ago ho built a sniAll burn, and lu Ita construction construc-tion used green willow posts at tho corners and ulong tho sides. Kor siiiiia time nothing unusual was noticed, no-ticed, but after a year It was observed that whoro he bud laid the floor near the ground It waa three feet above the soil. Ho then discovered that the willow posts Instead of being dead wuro allva and hnd Ink en root and were growing and that In their upward up-ward iiinvi on in they had raised tho barn. lMt spring tho barn waa on stilts nine feet high, und he put In a new floor mid sunou ided the posts with siding, thereby milking a two-story two-story affair. There Is now a space of twelve Inches between tho new floor and the ground. Craw ley expects to have a throe story bum In course st Uibo.