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I will endeavour to point out how each of these objects has 

 been accomplished. 



1. Accommodatiun for IIousiiKj Cattle. — On several farms boxes 

 have been erected, all well covered in, and so arranged as to 

 admit of perfect ventilation. A statement has been drawn up 

 respecting erections made on the farm of Barmston in this county, 

 which it may be worth while to repeat : — 



" The house accommodation at present is inferior and inadequate. Where 

 so much has been done, it is very important that some economical mode of 

 construction be adopted ; and whilst we certainly should desire something of 

 a more permanent character, we subjoin the particulars of an estimate and 

 sjiccification which may be useful to landlords, as exhibiting a cheap method 

 of affording increased accommodation to their tenants. With care this may 

 last a considerable number of years, until a landlord is gradually ab'e to get 

 over his whole estate with buildings of a more permanent and substantial 

 description. The system of stall-feeding is adopted as the most economical 

 in first cost, and believed to be at least equally profitable, as compared with 

 any other in the progress of the stock. Close wooden sheds are proposed to 

 be erected, 15 feet wide inside, with a feeding passage in front, and a cleansing 

 passage behind the cattle. The sheds are to be made of home-sawn wood, 

 and roofed with the same, coated with coal tar. Inside they are to be fitted 

 in the usual nianner, with stalls, mangers, doors, &c. The whole may be so 

 erected at a cost of 10*'. per head, where the timber is got free on the estate. 

 If the value of the timber is added, the cost will be 30s. per head. A shed 

 70 feet long by 15 feet wid(! inside, aflbrding accommodation ibr twenty cattle 

 in stalls, 7 feet to each pair, will cost as follows : — 



34,000 superficial feet 1-inch deal, at 12s. per 1,000 £20 8 



50 larch posts, at S'7 1 13 4 



40 couple sides, at 8'7. 168 



20 bnulKs, at lOr/ 16 8 



170 feet wall-plute, at 1'/ 14 2 



170 feet runners, at A'' 071 



2 barrels coal-tar, at 5s., in Durham .. .. 10 



Nails 1 10 



Workmanship 2 14 1 



£30 0" 



More permanent erections than the above for the same pin-posc 

 have already been erected in the county. 



2. Superior Ve/iti/ation and Lif/lit in St(ib/es and Bijcrs. — 

 In no })art of our farm buihlin<^s has there been greater neglect 

 than in this. Many of tlie stables especially were without any 

 light or ventilation beyond what was given by the single door- 

 wav, «ind were besides botli small and ill-contrived. I went 

 through "some new stai)ling in the; county a few days ago, and 

 shall give a few hrief partii ulars by way of showing the imj)rove- 

 ments that are in course of being effected. The first point which 

 struck me on entering them was their "roominess." Jlu* width 

 was 14 feet, i> of which was the length of the stalls, .uid ."» the 

 passage behind the horses. There were (1 stalls, each .) leet l> 



