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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. 397 rdi 816 779. A Granary icith a Loft for Wool above, and a Cart or Implement Shed beneath it, is given by Morel- Vinde, which, where economy of room and money is an object, we consider a most ex- cellent model. The material of construc- tion is entirely timber of small dimensions, no piece in the whole structure exceeding ten feet in length ; and only the story posts, or supporting pillars, are so much as nine inches squai-e. Fig. 8 1 6 is the ground plan of the cart-shed or ground floor, fifty feet by tliirty feet. The height to the under side of the floor above is ten feet. The two longitudinal sides of this plan are carried up perpendicularly as gables, and the two ends are hipped in at an angle of forty-five degrees, as shown in figs. 818 and 819. The gi-anary floor is of the same dimen- sions as the ground floor, and the wool floor, fig. 817, which is above the granary, is thirty 817 feet by thirty feet. The granary and the wool-room are both seven feet high. The grain and wool are both taken up and let down through a trapdoor, by means of a windlass fixed over it, as shown at a, in the plan of the wool room. Fig. 818 shows the longitudinal elevation of the building, in which may be observed three doors to the corn granary, and one door to the loft over it. Fig. 819 is a longitudinal section through the centre of the building, showing the situation of the windlass, b ; and the pulley over which the rope passes, a. Fig. 820 is an end elevation, and fig. 821 a cross section. The total expense of this structure, in the neighbourhood of Paris, in 1819, was ^"247, and the estimate for the departments of France was £l50. Such a building is admirably calculated for a country where small timber is the cheapest building material ; and we have introduced it with a particular view to America and Australia, as it might be put up by the very commonest description of country carpenter. The granary might even be used as a hay-loft, or a loft for maize or Indian corn in the ear, and the wool-room may be Employed as a granary or seed-room, according to local circumstances. By means of