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&ould likewife be fo placed as to form the 

 walls or inclofure of one or more farm-yards, 

 according to the fize of the farm. The 

 neglect of this point in fo many parts of 

 the kingdom is amazing. We fee many 

 farms that have no inclofed yards, and yet 

 many buildings fcattered about ; and, what 

 is amazing, the infatuation of landlords 

 building new ones without placing them 

 in the manner I mention. 



In winter the cattle fhould always be 

 collected, and kept in the yard or yards, 

 to eat up the ftraw, hay, and fuch of the 

 turnips as the fheep leave. By this ma- 

 nagement the fields are not poached, the 

 young fpring grafs not eat up to the damage 

 of the enfuing crop, and the cattle kept warm 

 and dry all winter. Thefe are effects of 

 having convenient yards, and are of great 

 confequence. 



I mall, in another place, give my ideas 

 of a complete fet of farm-yards ; therefore I 

 dp not, here, {ketch what a man would 

 erect upon his own eftate, but only fuch 

 parts as tenants mould expect upon every 

 farm, and without which they will be muc h 

 crampt and troubled in the practice of their 

 bufmefs. 



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