238 BUILDING. [APRIL. 



v, buck-wheat, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, 

 &c. that are, or can be raised on a farm, may be 

 applied to the rearing, feeding, or fattening hogs ; 

 bv which means the farmer has the opportunity of 

 improving his land to the highest degree, and at 

 the cheapest rate possible. 



The total expence at present of such yards 

 would not be less tKan 1501. And if made conform- 

 ably to the more correct idea, would be 2001. or 

 2501. But the governing idea of position should 

 be followed in sties of '2Ol. 



The last circumstance of rural management that 

 I should recommend to a proprietor, on his inhe- 

 riting a farm, is that of building a house. He 

 may however be in such a situation, in r< 

 habitation, that to build a new house is more 

 prudent than to submit to the very heavy repairs 

 of an old one ; and in other cases lie may come 

 to a farm without any house, it being let to a con- 

 tiguous renter. In such cases, it will be useful to 

 have some general hints for his direction. 



It very rarely happens that a man has an op; 

 tunity of making the experiment of buildi- 

 house twice in his life, and, th< he 



should reflect well before he begins. It is more 

 common to see people fail in this essenti.il step, 

 than almost any other. How many new 

 iu which people have no more elbow-room, in a 

 number of pieces, than if they were in the sir 

 How many in which comfort is sacrificed to show, 

 warmth to space, the sun's rays_, in latitude 55, to 



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