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when all the stacks are in their places, and untouched ; but as they are removed to the 

 barn the appearance of the flat-roofed sheds will not be so consonant to established notions 

 of beauty and neatness. 



3870. A farmery for a meadow-farm of 250 acres near London (fig. 473.), ay be 

 arranged as follows : The house may contain a porch, lobby, and stair to chambers and 



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cellars (a), parlor (6), bed-room or study (c), pantry ((Z), kitchen (e), lumber-room (/), 

 business-room (g), back kitchen {h), coal cellar, and maid's room over (i), wood-house 

 (A:), yard and pump (Z), pigs (m), chaise (w), poultry (o), tools and roots, &c. (p), two 

 stalls, and a saddle and harness place {g), harrows and large implements, &c. (r), 

 bailiff's house or men's lodge (s), cows {t), chaff-cutting room, and granary over (u), 

 straw-barn {v), corn-floor (w), unthreshed corn (x), stable and stall for litter (/), loaded 

 or empty carts and implements (s), watering-trough (^ , rick-stands (1), bailiff's garden 

 (2), master's garden (3), lawn (4), paddock of old grass (5). 



3871. An anomalous design for a turnip farm of 500 acres (fg. 474.), contains a 

 dwelling-house (a), on an eminence commanding not only the farmery (6), but great 

 part of the farm. It is surrounded by the ricks for shelter (c), and by a pond (d)i 

 which drives the threshing-machine [e}, and forms a foreground to the distant scenery. 

 There is a large feeding-shed (/), a bailiff's house and garden (g), and the other usual 

 accommodations. The elevation of the feeding -sheds and end of the barn looking 

 towards the house is simple and not inelegant, (fg. 116.) Farmeries of this sort are 

 not submitted as examples for general imitation ; but merely as sources of ideas to such 

 as have the designing of this species of rural buildings, for employers who have a taste 

 for design and for originality, and who can afford to gratify that taste. It is a poor 

 business, and one which never can procure much applause, when a proprietor of wealth 

 and cultivated mind, erects for his own use the same sort of farmery, or, indeed, any 

 other buildings, as the tenants who support him. In East Lothian, Berwickshire, North- 

 umberland, and on the Marquess of Stafford's estates both in England and Scotland, are 

 some noble examples of substantial, commodious, and even elegant farmeries. (See 

 Gen. Rep. of Scotland, and Loclis Imp. on the Marq. of Stafford's Estates^ &c. 8vo* 

 1819.) 



