26 FARMING BUILDINGS. 



As in farming we have a good deal to dt 

 with acres, 1 may as well state here, that four 

 thousand eight hundred and forty square yards 

 make one square acre, and that each side of 

 that space will therefore be about sixty-nine 

 yards and a half long. Each acre contains four 

 roods, each rood forty poles, and each pole 

 rather more than thirty yards. Our farm-yard 

 occupies, with the various buildings, about five 

 roods, or an acre and a quarter. The buildings 

 are principally these: two great barns; sta- 

 bles; two granaries; hay -barns, cow-houses, 

 piggeries, hen-houses, pigeon-houses, and a 

 cottage for our head man and his family; 

 though this scarcely stands in the yard. There 

 is a railed partition, forming, with the hedges, 

 an inclosure, called the rick-yard. In this part 

 stand now four stacks of hay, containing, 

 together, about two hundred loads ; five stacks 



