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Remarks on the Plan of a Stercorary^ described in the 

 JVote, Page 153. By Richard Peters. 



Read April 12th, 1808. 



Fig. 1. The sizes of the timber must be regulated by 

 the strength requh'ed by the weight of the roof. — The 

 posts are mortised mto the sills. 



Fig. 2. There should be a gang way cleated or strip- 

 ped, for the poultry to walk on. The pump may be 

 made as here represented, or as in Fig. 3. where it is 

 elevated, to throw the drainings the higher; with shifting 

 troughs to lead it over the heap. These ends, as far as 

 occupied iox pigeons or poultry^ may be floored with oak 

 laths, and openings left, for the ordure to drop through, 

 Fig. 1, A for pigeons,- Fig. 2, B for poultry. The space 

 not thus occupied, maybe otherwise usefully employed. 



Fig 3. Is a side view, as are Fig. 1 and 2, of the ends. 

 Carts may be loaded without entering the stercorary ; 

 and for tliis purpose the bars above the wall, may be 

 made to unship at proper places. The side of the gut- 

 ter, next the entrance, must be elevated with large 

 stone on edge, to prevent leakages there. The roof 

 may be shingled, or thatched. The dimensions or 

 height may be .fixed at pleasure, as this plan is only of-^ 

 fercd for consideration. I think if the square of the 

 frame were two feet lower, it would be better. The sun 

 should be excluded, as much as is consistent with the 

 admission of air. This must be governed by the quan- 

 tity of manure, likely to be contained in the stercorary. 



Fig. 4. A, The bed paved something like a Phila- 

 delphia street ; the walls serving as curb stones. Of 



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