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( EEING there are so many kinds of forming it may reason- 

 ably be assumed that, for their accommodation, there 

 should be a corresponding diversity in the size and arrange- 

 ment. But before explaining any general rule, and apply- 

 ing it to construction, it is necessary, as a preliminary in- 

 vestigation to ascertain the particulars which constitute 

 the most proper site which the buildings of the farm should 

 occupy. 



Were theory alone to determine the site of the steading, 

 it would be at the centre, as being the point equidistant from the circum- 

 ference of a circular farm. But, for the sake of practice, farms cannot be 

 laid out in the circular form. Farms are therefore laid out in the quad- 

 rangular form, having straight sides, wherever practicable. The centre of 

 such a quadrangle is the proper site for the buildings, and from its 

 centre alone, it is obvious that, a farm can be most economically con- 

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Difficulties, however, of a physical nature often interfere with the 

 choice of the centre as the most proper site. The centre may be v 

 much elevated above the other parts, or it may be a low marsh or a lake 

 In < ither case the building cannot be placed in the centre of the farm. 

 When the farm contains both permanent, pastoral and low arable lam I. 

 liiilding should be placed upon it, and at the centre of the arable 

 n, whether that be the centre of the farm or not. 



< nience often decides the site of a steading. Command of water- 

 power is a strong incentive to place it by the side of a ri\vr. But i< 

 worthy of consideration at first, whether the river is capable of affording 

 a constant supply of water throughout all the seasons It' it <1 



'uiMini^ will be economically pi ' the river, though that may 



be at the centre of the farm ; hut if the water be deficient in quantity, 

 ncy only in winter, then it is more economical to 

 building iH-ar the centre of the farm. 



A good road is a natural inducement to place the buildings beside it. 

 But vantage, natural as it is, may be purchased by the sacrifice of 



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