FARMING FOR LADIES. 



CHAPTER I. 



Country-houses and ofSces — Poultrj'-yards and hen-houses 

 — Those of the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Penrhyii, and 

 Earl Spencer — The Queen's — Mode of arrangement on a 

 moderate scale — Shelter and smoke — Roofing with tiles 

 and thatch — Description of a Clergyman's fowl-houses — 

 Those of a farmer and of a cottager — Proposed mode of 

 erection — Fumigation — Pilferage. 



Country-houses differ so materially in ex- 

 tent and construction, that no rule can be 

 laid down for the arrangement of the out- 

 door offices, though, generally speaking, the 

 nearer they are placed to the dwellings of 

 persons of moderate fortune, the better ; nor 

 can they be entirely separated without pre- 

 cluding those means of inspection over the 

 servants of which no prudent mistress of a 

 family would ever choose to be deprived. 



This, indeed, applies solely to those in- 

 tended to be erected. With regard, how- 

 ever, to those already built, some contain every 

 convenieace that can be required for a nu- 



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