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were used to save the hoofs drove the inflammation into 

 her system. Although in very great pain, she was 

 enabled to stand up on Friday fortnight, the day before 

 she died ; but the post mortem examination told too 

 suri ly that one part had only been relieved at the ex- 

 pense of another. She was immensely thick-fleshed, 

 but the internal fat was nothing to be compared to Queen 

 of Athelstane's. And thus another name was added to 

 that long sombre bede-roU of murdered beauties or park 

 dummies, which ought to haunt the guilty path of every 

 member of the Royal Agricultural Council on each 

 AUhallows eve. To her ladyship, who had just refused 



a very fine ofl"er for her, coupled with The Duchess, 

 the loss is a peculiarly heavy one, as " The Rose" was 

 her especial favourite, and none came so readily and 

 affectionately to her call. Still few owners can bear 

 losses with more unflinching patience, and the two 

 beautiful roans of Branches will not have died in vain, 

 if they secure to its calves and yearlings a monopoly of 

 " training" for the future. There is no reason why Time 

 should not turn up trumps in a herd so highly bred, 

 and bestow many a winning rosette in those Royal fields, 

 to which Glen Lonan's chief was such a dashing 

 pioneer. |J|_ U U^ 



NOTES ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF FARM BUILDINGS. 



It doubtless appears to many an easy thing to design 

 a " farmery ;" at least we may judge so from the multi- 

 plicity of the plans so-called " model," which have 

 been published from time to time. From many of these 

 it is easy to see, that in the opinion of the designers, all 

 that was necessary to know was a series of names of 

 apartments, such as barn, 'granary, implement-house, 

 stable, cow-house, and the like ; and all that was ne- 

 cessary to do was to put these into a species of designing 

 pepper-box, so to speak, and to dust them over a sheet 

 of drawing-paper, taking care to arrange them in some- 

 what like symmetrical order, so that their outline would 

 give in elevation, a decently fair architectural coup d'osil. 

 That something like this process has been carried out by 

 some is evident enough, for from the incongruous inter- 

 mixture of apartments, it has not apparently been consi- 

 dered by the designer whether there was a necessity for 

 having all those which they so ingeniously crowded into 

 these designs. It has never struck many of them ap- 

 parently, that some of the apartments were not at all 

 required in the processes of a certain kind of farming ; 

 that in point of fact, they were as much out of place for 

 certain purposes as a cotton carding. room would be in a 

 worsted or a silk factory. The fact to many of them 

 being apparently unknown, that as there are different 

 styles of manufacture, so there are dift'erent styles of 



. farming, and that the latter require manufacturing 

 premises, as it were, designed in accordance with their 

 manufacturing peculiarities, just as carefully as do the 



'former. 



To design a farmery, two things are essential to be 

 borne in mind, namely, a thorough acquaintance with 

 the peculiar requirements of the farming carried on, for 

 which the " farmery" is required ; and, secondly, a 

 knowledge of the " order," or sequence with which 

 these requirements succeed each other. These essen- 

 tials are, in point of fact, common-place enough ; but, 

 like many other common-place things, they are very npt 

 to be overlooked. The simplicity of a thing is not 

 always a passport to its ready reception, 



A knowledge of the first essential named above will 

 obviously lead to economy of construction ; for where it 

 is attended to, there will be no unnecessary apartments 



set down in the plan — apartments required, doubtless, in 

 some building, but which are not desiderated in the case 

 which may be in hand. On the other hand, a know- 

 ledge of the second essential, named above, will conduce 

 to economy of labour, for the apartments required 

 will be arranged in connection with one another in 

 such a way that the " material" shall go regularly 

 through its various stages, each stage having its own 

 apartment or compartment, from the first to the last, 

 all going from one point to another, and in conse- 

 quence all unnecessary labour being avoided. 



Some of the incongruities which are easily ascertain- 

 able in many published plans might, and likely would 

 have been avoided, had their authors studied with care 

 the opinions of our various agricultual authorities on the 

 subject of farm buildings. These, doubtless, are scat- 

 tered through many works not easily available, so much 

 so, indeed, that we have deemed it likely to be useful 

 to many of our readers to present them with a brief 

 resume of what has been said, and how said by the 

 majority of our authorities on this important point. 



In commencing to lay out a " Farmery" the first 

 point to be considered is its site. On this point our 

 various authorities have delivered their opinions. Mr. 

 Stephens, author of the ''Book of the Farm," the 

 Nestor of our agricultural literature, has the following : 

 " It is a necessary condition to its proper use, that every 

 steading be conveniently placed on the farm. To be 

 most conveniently placed in theory, it should stand in 

 it% centre ; for it can be proved in geometry that of 

 any point within the area of a circle, the centre is the 

 nearest to every point in the circumference. In prac- 

 tice, however, circumstances greatly modify this theore- 

 tical principle. For example : if an abundant supply 

 of water can be easily obtained for the moving power 

 of the thrashing-machine, the steading may be placed 

 for the sake of economising horse-labour in a more re- 

 mote and hollow spot than it should be in other cir- 

 cumstances. For the purpose of conveying the ma- 

 nure down-hill to most of tie fields, some think the 

 highest ground near the centre of the farm is the best 

 site for the steading. Others prefer the lowest point 

 near the centre, because the grain and green crops being 



