The Donaldsonville Chief

GRAIN AND HAY BARRACK.

It Can Be Built by Any Farmer at an Outlay for Roofing Boards and Nails Only.

The cut shows a cheap and most serviceable structure for storing hay or grain. Any farmer with a good lot can build this barrack himself at an outlay for the roofing boards and nails only. As only 250 feet of one-half-inch boards are needed, and two or three pounds nails, the cost is small. Cut and peel four poles about five inches in diameter at small end and 17 feet long. Cut eight small saplings 14 feet long and three or four inches in diameter, and four small pieces, 12 feet long, to nail on top of the posts. Dig four post holes 12 feet apart and three feet square:

Before putting down the posts, bore one and one-half-inch holes, 18 inches apart, beginning at small end. These holes are for pins for roof to rest on. Put down the 17-foot posts, set perfectly plumb, and nail on the 12-foot stringers, c, at or near top. To put on the roof take four of the 14-foot pieces, made smooth. Halve them at the corners, allowing frame of roof, of which these pieces are the sills, to come outside the posts one and one-half inches on all sides. This gives room for the roof to be raised easily from any corner.

Take four small pieces for rafters. Place a small block at apex, a, and a small crosspiece at each corner, inside posts, b, for foot of rafter to rest on. The roof may be three feet higher at apex, a, than at sills, c. The roof boards should come down six inches below sills. A foundation of hay rails, f, keeps the grain or hay off the ground. This barrack will hold 200 stooks of oats or wheat, or four to five tons settled hay. For bins to hold the roof use iron bolts, or good wooden pins of oak or birch. The roof is raised as filled. When the barrack is emptied, the roof may be let down.-J. A. Macdonald, in Farm and Home.