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Vaches, "Genesins," and Noah, are let into the walls, 

 and the gallery above gives us a nearer view of fully 

 200 Moorish, Persian, and Italian plates, which are 

 hung up like shields below the ribbon motto which 

 encircles the ceiling : " Cleanliness is next to god- 



Next in order are some loose-boxes, including one 

 without corners for the especial use of a mare when 

 she is about to foal. After a tour up the clock-tower 

 stairs, at the south-west corner, to the future busi- 

 ness room, we descended to the byre, which com- 

 poses, with the cowman's house, the whole of the 

 west range. The byre itself is 128 feet 6 inches long, 

 and is so constructed that it may very easily be 

 divided into three. It is built for thirty-two cows, 

 which stand, two-and-two, in stalls of polished flag, 

 each with an iron rack of its own, which is filled by 

 the aid of the tram-road in front. On the north side 

 are the piggeries, the calf- houses, and the lumber- 

 shed ; and fifteen loose boxes and two boiling and 

 store -houses stand in the centre of the square, and 

 encircle the manure-heap. The latter is so con- 

 structed as to be covered or not at pleasure ; and the 

 contents of the adjacent urine-tank can be pumped 

 on it by means of the engine. 



The size of the homestead may be judged 

 of from the fact that the width of the roadway in the 

 court, which will be paved with squared whinstone, 

 is twenty-four feet. Of this, however, a small portion 

 will be taken up with the tram-road, which will run 



