CHAPTER XII. 



FARM-BUILDINGS ECONOMICAL PLAN OF, DESCRIBED ESTIMATE AND COST 



EXTENSION OF LAND IMPROVEMENT ACT NECESSITY OF DEFINING 



PROPORTIONS REPAYABLE BY LANDLORD AND TENANT RESPECTIVELY 



GOVERNMENT LOANS RENDERED NECESSARY BY ENCUMBRANCES AND EN- 

 TAILS UNSOUND STATE TO WHICH THESE HAVE LED FREE TRANSFER 



OF LAND THE ONLY REMEDY EXPEDIENCY OF GOVERNMENT LOANS IN 



THE MEAN TIME. 



The general want of suitable farm-buildings in the 

 West of Treland has already been frequently referred to. 

 An improved system of agriculture cannot be com- 

 menced without the accommodations for stock, crop, and 

 manure which are necessary for carrying it out. Plans 

 of farm-buildings are frequently conceived in such an 

 expensive style as to impose a very heavy annual charge 

 for interest, or even to deter a proprietor altogether 

 from venturing on their execution. And in a country 

 where everything has to be done, a landlord, however 

 well intentioned, finds his means totally inadequate to 

 the general erection of any expensive system of housing. 

 This I found, in the West of Ireland, a very common 

 answer to any complaint of inadequate farm-buildings. 

 The plans usually recommended by architects, or in 

 books, such as Low's Practical Agriculture, or Stephens' 

 Booh of the Farm, are of so costly a character, that 



