Book IV. 



FARMERIES. 



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ing out and directing buildings of this sort, which they may adapt to the particular na- 

 ture of the site or situation of such erections. 



2760. An example of iht arrangement of a small farm-house and offices {Jig. 374.), 

 is given by Beatson, which he considers as very convenient. At the north-west corner 

 is the barn (a), with a water threshing-mill ; a straw-house (fi) ; being a con- 

 tinuation of the barn above, for holding a quantity of straw after it is threshed, 

 or hay, that it may be at hand to give to the cattle in the feeding-house below. 

 The upper part of this straw-house may 



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consist of pillars to support the roof, 

 with about eight feet space between 

 them, whereby a good deal of building 

 will be saved. In the floor should be 

 hatches, at convenient distances, to put 

 down the straw to the cattle below. A 

 court for the dung-hill (c) has a door to 

 it from the feeding-house, and a large 

 entry at the other end to admit carts to 

 take away the dung : on the outside of 

 this should be a urine-pit, in the most 

 convenient place, according to the form 

 of the ground ; a cow-house (d), has a 

 door also to the dung-court ; and a calf- 

 pen (e), with a rail across to keep in the 

 calves, even though the doors are all 

 open, adjoins ; there is a stable, with a 

 harness-room, and a place for keeping 

 corn (y) ; a root-house (g), over which, 

 or over the barn, may be a granary ; a 

 shed for carts {h) ; a place for keeping 

 large implements, as ploughs and harrows 

 (i) ; for keeping smaller implements, as '*" 



spades, shovels, rakes, forks, &c. and for laying by old iron and many other useful 

 things that might otherwise be lost or thrown away (^) ; a pond for washing the horses' 

 ieet (/) ; which slopes down from each extremity towards the middle, where it is 

 deepest, tliat the horses may easily go in at one end, and come out at the other, with a 

 rail at each end, to prevent them going in during frost, or when not wanted to go ; a 

 pump, with a trough for the horses or cattle to drink in, especially while other water is 

 frozen, or when the water in the pond is dirty (i) ; but if it can be contrived so that the 

 water which drives the mill may run through this pond, it will be preferable as being 

 at all times clean and wholesome. One material advantage of this arrangement, 

 Beatson remarks, is, that the fodder consumed upon the farm goes progressively for- 

 ward from the barn-yard through the cattle houses to the dung-hill, without the 



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