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The Country Gentleman s Magazine 



RUSTIC FARM-YARD STRUCTURES. 



AMONGST the popular errors which find 

 a place— shall we say a too ready 

 place?— with us respecting our continental 

 neiiihbours. is one to the effect that their 



in many departments our workmen could, if 

 they would, learn a vast deal which would be 

 of practical service to them. Take, for in- 

 stance, the case of structures erected almost 



Shelter Shed— End_Section. 



workmen engaged in what we call the con- 

 structive arts, building, &:c., are very clumsy 

 at their work, and by no means tasteful in 

 their designing. We do not hold this opinion, 



Fig. 2. Field Shelter Shed— Side Section. 



entirely ot wood. At the Paris Exposition 

 abundant evidence was to be obtained that 

 continental workmen know how not only to 

 erect economical, but tasteful structures. A 



Entance Door to Cattle Shed 



e Door to Cattle Shed. 



or we have made it '^ our business to see into very little taste goes a long way, and we 



what really is the nature and style of work would draw especial attention in corroboration 



carried out by continental workmen, and we of this to the sheds which were erected for 



have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the shelter of the stock at the island of Billan- 



