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PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Part III. 



the main body of the house is a leantoo, containing the kitchen dairy and pantry, brew- 

 ing, fuel, and lumber place. The usual appendages are detached. 



3876. A double cottage for two married ploughmen, given in The General Report 

 of Scotland, contains a porch, and stair to bed-rooms, living-room, pantry and dairy, 

 back kitchen, cow or pig-house, gardens, and two good bed-rooms to each. 



3877. A laborer's cottage, with cow- 

 house and piggery (fg> 476.), as com- 

 monly contructed in the south of 

 Scotland, is thus arranged: the cow- 

 house(a) and piggery(c)are in a leantoo. 

 The dwelling contains, on the ground 

 floor, an entrance and stair to bed-gar- 

 rets (6), large kitchen and living-room 

 (e), dairy and pantry (d), coal and 

 wood (g)y necessary (A). 



3878. A good tradesman's cottage 

 {fig. 477.) is thus arranged: parlor 

 (a), kitchen (6), closet (c), dairy and pantry 

 poultry (g), back entrance to the kitchen and 

 fuel place {h) , back entrance to house and 

 stair {i) ; over are two good bed-rooms ; be- 

 hind is a small court- yard, and the garden 

 surrounds the whole. 



3879. Where cottages are erected as pic- 

 turesque objects, various external forms and 

 styles of design may be adopted, and at the 

 same time the requisite degree of comfort 

 preserved within. Three may be grouped 

 together {fig. 478.) and each have the usual 

 accommodations of kitchen (a), parlor (6), 

 with the usual closets and garret bed- rooms. For cottages of upper servants. 



(rf), closet to parlor (e), tool-house (/), 

 477 



the demesne lands of proprietors, 

 Gothic elevations {fig. 479.), Chi- 

 nese, Swiss, and Italian {fig. 480.), 

 and every other variety may be 

 adopted* 



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