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once got into a family, feldom leave it, until they have 

 attacked every individual. Where farms are large the 

 houfes are in proportion good, and amongfl this clafs 

 you fee proportional attention to comfort and cleanli- 

 nefs in every department, within doors and without j 

 many farmers of this clafs have houfes with a fecond 

 flory, dated roofs, and all the offices neceflary towards 

 carrying on their bufmefs to advantage, whilft thofe 

 on a fmaller fcale, from the want of proper offices, 

 are ever labouring under fome inconvenience attended 

 with lofs, which, though not much felt at the inftant, 

 amounts in the end to fomething ferious. Amongft the 

 refident gentlemen much attention is paid to their farm 

 yards, &c. and there are fome very capital ones ; but 

 in every cow-houfe I have feen, except that at Mount 

 Stewart, there is a material defect, in the want of a 

 paflage to carry in food and deliver ir before the 

 flakes, inftead of fqueezing between each beaft. The 

 bullock houfe at Mount Panther is remarkably well 

 conftrucled likewife, for attending the cattle, having 

 two rows with their heads towards each other, and a 

 communication from one end of the building to the 

 other between them, where turnips, &c. for the d^y's 

 provifion may be kept. The pigfty is alfo very well 

 contrived, efpecially the feeding troughs, into which 

 the pigs can only put their mouths, and are thus pre- 

 vented from trampling their food. Barns are not-very 

 large, nor is there that occasion for having them fo 



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