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 398 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. the trapdoors and windlass, any article might be hoisted up from or let down into carts with very little labour or loss of time. Should it be intended, before creating this building, to use the granary as a hay-loft, or Iiay-barn, the floor need not be laid with boards. Ji 7^-a-:r^.. ^as;^||^^3Tr-j^^^^ j^3tt.>^,^j^ 780. Storehouses for Boots, such as potatoes, turnips, mangold- gnn wurtzel ; and temporary deposit- aries for clover, tares, or other green food, or for chaff, hay, or other dried food, should be placed next to the houses or yards of the animals which are intended to be fed by them. In form they should either be squares or parallelograms, as giving most space at least expense. They should have ample doors, ge- nerally of such a width as to admit of setting back a loaded cart into y" them, and shooting down the article to be stored up. Food which is to be consumed immediately in feeding cattle, such as green clover, tares, turnips, &c., may also be laid down at once in proper recesses or stores formed in the houses or sheds in which the cattle stand. Food which is to be steamed, or otherwise prepared, before it is given to cattle, should be stored next to the place of preparation. 781. A Barn for Hay is used on some forms, though the practice is given up by the best farmers as too expensive, and as being less favourable for keeping the hay than stacks or ricks in the open air. 782. A Barn for keeping the Ears of Maize is sometimes reqiured in countries where that corn is grown upon a large scale. Barns of this description should be made quite narrow, and open on the sides, so as to admit a thorough current of air ; and, to prevent the weight of the ears above from compressing those below, there should be horizontal