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tions are a chaff-house, corn-rooms, threshing-mill, with water-wheel and straw-house ; 

 cattle-sheds, poultry-houses, and piggery ; stables, byres, cart-shed, cattle-shed, dairy, 

 meal-house, lodge for ploughmen, paved way, and cattle-yards. 



3860. As an example of a small farmery in the county of Stafford, we select that of 



Knollwall. {fig. 466.) The extent is 104 4gg 



acres ; the soil is strong and rather wet, and 

 there are some water and other meadows. 

 The house and yard-buildings are of brick 

 and tile, and their accommodations are, a 

 kitchen (a), brew-house {b), parlor (c), sit- 

 ting-room [d], pantry (e), milk-house [f), 

 court-yard open (g), coals [h), hackney- 

 stable ii), turkey-house {k), pigstyes (/), 

 waggon-horse stable (m), corn-bay (n), 

 barn (o), straw bay (p), cow-tyings \q], 

 fodder-bins (r), calf-houses (s), and waggon- 

 shed, granary over, connected with barn, (t) 



3861. As an example of a middle-sized 

 farmery on a clayey soil, we may refer to that 



of Newstead, in Staffordshire. This farm 



contains 314 acres, and the tenant. Ford, is 



said to be an example to the whole country. 



The accommodations of the farmery are, in 



the dwelling-house, a house-place and 



kitchen, master's-room, brew-house, dairy, 



pantry, parlor, bed-rooms, cheese-room, 



attics. In the court a shed for waggons, with granary over, hackney stable, waggon - 



horse stable, cattle-sheds, turnip-houses, fodder-house, straw-bays, threshing-mill, with 



water-wheel, corn-bay, tool-house, workshop, bay for unthreshed corn, small granary, and 



pigstyes. 



3862. As an example of an economical farmery for a farm of 50 or 60 acres, we copy 

 from The General Report of Scotland. The accommodations are ; in the house, a 

 kitchen, parlor, store-room, pantry, with three bed-rooms, and a light closet over ; closet, 

 milk-room, and scullery. In the economical buildings are a stable, with a loose stall, 

 byre for ten cows, cattle-shed, barn, cart-shed, with granary over ; pigstyes and cattle- 

 yard. This appears one of the most compact and eligible plans for the farmeries of arable 

 farms under 100 acres. 



3863. As an improved Berwickshire farmery, we submit another specimen from The 

 General Report. Its accommodations are calculated for a farm of 600 acres, and 

 consist, in the dwelling-house range, of a porch, lobby, dining-room, parlor, kitchen, 

 scullery, coal-place, store-room, dairy, pantry, business-room, poultry, steaming-house, 

 bailiff 's- room. The economical buildings contain a riding-horse stable, tool-house, cart- 

 shed, with granary over ; corn-barn, straw-barn, feeding-house for 36 head of cattle, 

 root-house, byre for cows, calf-pens, stable for ten horses, pigs, with yard and troughs, 

 cattle-sheds, dung-basin, and urinarium under ; cattle-yards, cart-road paved, rick- yard, 

 mill track, open court, lawn, garden, and orchard. 



3864. A farmery for a turnip soil of from 600 to 900 acres, from the same work, 

 deserves consideration as a very complete specimen of arrangement. Omitting the 

 farm-house, the economical buildings contain a stable, cow-house, servants' cow, root- 

 house, young horses stable, straw-barn, corn-barn, stable, cart-shed, place for pickling, 

 wheat, killing sheep, or other odd jobs ; feeding-house, carpenter's workshop, pigs, geese, 

 common poultry, turkeys, pigs, cattle-sheds, dung and straw court with urinariums in 

 the centre of each, paved cart-road round, open court between the yard and dwelUng- 

 house-rick-yard, paddocks of old pasture, ponds for drinking and washing the horses' legs. 



3865. The accommodations for a farm-house, suitable to such a design and to the 

 style of life which the person who can occupy such a farm is entitled to enjoy, are 

 as follow : In the parlor story there is a lobby with staircase to chambers and cellars, 

 drawing-room, bed-room, a family work-room, dining-room, business-room, kitchen, 

 barrack-room or man-servant's room, &c. ; store-room, dairy, and on the first-floor two 

 best bed-rooms, two other bed-rooms, bed-closets, and another closet ; over are servants' 

 rooms. 



3866. As a farmery for an arable farm near London of 350 acres (fig. 467.), we 

 shall give as an example one erected (with some variations) in the county of Middlesex, 

 in 1810. It is to be observed, that in Middlesex farming, a great object is hay, especially 

 meadow hay for the London market, which gives rise to the covered spaces for loaded 

 carts (x) ; it being the custom to load the carts at night, place them under cover, and yoke 

 and go on the road early the following morning. The accommodations of this farmery 



