Yesterday we visited the Shaker Village in Hancock, Mass (their webite is down or I would link to it) and once again admired the efficiency and beauty of their round barn design which loads the hay into the middle, where the cows, arranged like wheels of a spoke, feed on it, are milked, and pass manure, which falls to the basement level, where a wagon wheels it out to the fields where it is composted. The Shakers were also technological innovators in their use of hydropower in their machine shop.
