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Spencer Yost
yostsw at atis.net
Tue Jul 11 14:38:39 PDT 2017
I had never thought of this before, but now that you folks mentioned it I hear inconsistencies when the word "barn" is used, too. Where I am from in western Pennsylvania, seems that only buildings with hay mows and designed for animals are called barns. Places were you milk, or where pigs farrow (sp?) , are called parlors. Everything else seems to be a shed, or building (i.e. saddle building where you keep tack).
But here in the south, any outbuilding with an agricultural purpose can be called a barn but not every one of them is necessarily called a barn. In fact it seems to have more to do with design(i.e. open on one side is always a shed) than anything else. But then again, if the open side had an overhang it might still be a barn. :-) it gets very confusing. At any rate, not long after I moved down here I learned to wait for the owner to put a name on it before I did. (-;
PS: An old-school, honest to God flue-cured tobacco barn is about 800 feet from my house. If any of you want to see a picture of it let me know. I can't get inside, because the property was recently sold to distant owners, but I can get a picture of the outside of it. Old tobacco barns are getting pretty scarce. Between falling down and getting torn down there's very few left.
Spencer Yost
> On Jul 11, 2017, at 12:24 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
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>> On 7/9/2017 11:49 AM, John Hall wrote:
>> Here is a twist for you Ralph, tobacco is cured in a barn. It was 150
>> years ago and is today, but the size and styles have changed greatly.
> Seems to me I might have heard the term "barn" used for tobacco too. I'm
> also thinking of a term "car barn"
> in reference to where they parked the street cars in the cities.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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