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included in the estimate ; nor are the labourers' cottages, 

 which should be situated at no great distance from the 

 farm-buildings. 



It will be seen that this plan affords accommodation 

 for ten horses and eighty cattle in stalls, besides imple- 

 ment-house, barn, granary, straw and chaff house, clover 

 or turnip house, boiling-house, covered dung-house and 

 tank for saving liquid manure, pig and poultry houses. 

 It is suitable for a farm of 200, 300, or 400 acres, 

 according to the proportions of tillage and the style of 

 farming pursued, being sufficiently extensive for a 400- 

 acre farm managed on the system described by Mr 

 Stephens in his Booh of the Farm, and not a bit too 

 large for a 200-acre farm cultivated in the more im- 

 proved system now believed requisite to ensure profit 

 with a moderate scale of prices. 



The preservation and accumulation of dung is the 

 foundation of this system; and, accordingly, the plan 

 includes a dung-house roofed over to prevent the action 

 of the air and weather, and beneath it an arched tank 

 capable of containing about 8000 gallons, into which 

 covered drains, from the stables and cattle-houses, con- 

 duct the whole liquid manure. This is unquestionably 

 the most important part of the whole farm-steading, 

 and yet it is almost the only portion which is wholly 

 omitted in the expensive designs already mentioned. * 



The wheeling of the dung from the different stables 

 and cattle -houses is so arranged, that the heaviest part 



* For full particulars as to the mode of accumulating, mixing, and apply- 

 ing solid and liquid manure, the author refers the reader to his pamphlet on 

 " High Farming," published by Messrs Blackwood. 



