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nor any house-door open directly into it. The 

 scullery as near it as possible, but without opening 

 into it. 



2d, The mistress's store-room should have a 

 square opening into the kitchen (with a sliding 

 door), on a level with the dresser or broad shelf 

 which surrounds the whole store-room, through 

 which she may give out whatever is wanted, with- 

 out the necessity of her or her maids, &c. passing 

 by a round-about way* 



3d, The common keeping-room to open on one 

 side into the store-room, and on the other, into a 

 passage that leads directly to the wine and ale 

 cellar, which should be near, in order that the eye 

 may attend to what the hand need not perform. 



4th, The window of the keeping-room to look 

 full upon the grand avenue to the yards, barns, 

 cattle, &c. and if possible full (but at a safe dis- 

 tance), into the farm-yard. 



5th, The farmer to have a store-room, as well as 

 his wife, for sacks, small tools, nails, c. &c. 



6th, The farmer's bed-chamber, with a large 

 window full to the East, that the sun may shine in 

 early. 



HEMP. 



This crop is often sown in April, but in the more 

 modern practice of the best cultivators, it has gene- 

 rally been deferred till May, probably from expe- 

 riencing the evil of late spring frosts, when sown 

 early. I shall therefore postpone the particular 

 directions till the Calendar for that month. 



SOWING 



