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so that I must adhere to the original proposal, as 

 very much superior in convenience to the alteration 

 thus indicated. Farm -yards, &c. have heen exe- 

 cuted by the great at an immense ex pence, which 

 are not to be compared to this circular system, 

 \vhich might be executed for one-tenth of the cost : 

 and let the young farmer remember, that the com- 

 bination for convenience is as applicable to the 

 roughest and cheapest mode of execution, as it is 

 to works of brick and slate, and ornament. Fir- 

 posts, with a covering of stubble or fern, may be 

 thus disposed, as well as columns of stone and 

 mangers of copper. 



The dairy should be situated within a certain 

 reach of that part of the circular shed assigned to the 

 cows, suppose 30 yards, and a slight foot-bridge 

 thrown over the dung-pit, from the centre of the 

 cow-standings. In contriving the dairy, there are a 

 few points which should be attended to. The en- 

 trance into the milk-room should be through the 

 scalding-house, and the copper for heating water, 

 &c. should be in a shed without the scalding-house, 

 that the heat may be as far as possible from the 

 milk. The boiling water should pass by a cock in 

 the- bottom of the copper, through a trough or 

 pipe, across the scalding-house (another cock 

 being there in the pipe for washing smaller imple- 

 ments) through the wall into the milk leads, that 

 "whenever the dairy is free from milk, &c. or with- 

 out being free in winter, the water may pass at 

 once through the whole system of leads or trays 



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