Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — WHAT A FIRST-CLASS BARN IS. [ARTICLE]

WHAT A FIRST-CLASS BARN IS.

Hevi P. Morton’s New One on His F.hlnebeck Farm. New Yerk Herald. Ex-Vice-President Morton has restored the barn on bis Rhinebeck farm, that was burned last summer. The building is three hundred feet long, sixty-five feet wide, and where the silos are located eighty nine feet wide. The latest improvements have bken introduced in the building and ! no expense has been Spared to make I it a model barn and one of the finest i in this country. Railroad tracks for ears to carry feed run around the interior of the barn; there are blinds on every window, so arranged as to act as awnings to keep the heat out in summer. The area walls outside of the building have a six-inch blue-stono coping* with an, iron railing five feet high. The basement is of concreto five feet, thick, with a cross brick wall with chestnut sleepers to rest upon, and drainage under the whole. The basement under the L, which is 40x60 feet in size, is fitted up as a root cellar. The silos are three in number and hold fifteen hundred tons. The stalls in thebaim are provided with fire escape fasteners, so that j any one or all of them can be opened 'at once- Three hundred thermostats are placed iu the barn to give an i alarm in case of fire. They tell ! what part of the building is on fire, and are connected with the farmhouse and office. The barn is lighted by incandes-, cent lights. The latest improved , machinery is provided for grinding feed, etc., including a powerful en- ! gine. The many new inventions introI dueed in the construction of this i barn are being closely observed by ! experts. __ , Father Times’ New Equipment. i William Henry Bisliop in April Century. Torringford, bustling with foundries, cottonmills, skate-shops, need-le-shops, and hook-and-eye-shops—-shops, not factories, they are. called i in the local nomenclature —was one ; of the water-power villages that the S new distribution of power by tlie 1 railroad had made, just as Baker- ! vilie and Riverton were of those : that it had harmed. I was told that ' at Riverton yfru could buy for *2.000 i an excellent scythe-factory that, had I cost *7,000. But. indeed, even apart j from the railroad, the scythe is dis- ; appearing beford the advance of the I mowing machine. It will become an ! obsolete implement, and we shall have old Father Time mounted on a mowing machine’ and consulting a Waterbury watch instead of an eyeglass.