Book IV. 



BUILDINGS AS REPOSITORIES. 



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be the external form, the interior arrangement consists of a series of boxes or cavities, 

 formed in or against the wall, generally about a foot high and deep, and two feet or less 

 long : one half of the front is left open as an entrance, and the other is closed to protect 

 the femr.ie during incubation. (See Pigeon, Part III.) 



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2845. The apinry is a building or structure seldom wanted, except to protect hives 

 from thieves ; then a niche or recess in a wall, to be secured in front by two or more 

 iron bars, is a simple and effectual mode. Sometimes apiaries are made ornamental 

 (Jig. 417.), but the best bee-masters set little value on such structures, and prefer keeping 

 their bees detached in single hives, for sufficient reasons. These hives may be chained to 

 fixed stools in Huish's manner. (See Bee, Part IV.) 



Sect. II. Buildings as Repositories, and for performing in-door Operations. 



2846. Buildings for dead stock and crop occupy a considerable portion of the farmery, 

 and include the barn, granary, straw and root-houses, cart-sheds, tool-house, harness- 

 room, and, when farming is conducted on a very extensive scale, the smiths' and carpenters' 

 work-rooms. 



*2847. The corn-barn, or building in which corn is contained, threshed, and cleaned, 

 has undergone considerable change in form and dimensions in modern times. Formerly 



it was in many cases made so large as to contain 

 at once all the corn grown on a farm ; and in 

 most cases it was so ample as to contain a great 

 portion of it. But since the mode of forming 

 small corn stacks became more general, and also 

 the introduction of threshing machines, this de- 

 scription of building is made much smaller. 

 The barn, especially where the corn is to be 

 threshed by a machine, is best placed on the 

 north side of the farmery, as being most central 

 for the supply of the straw-yards, as well as the 

 stables and cattle-sheds. In this situation it lias 

 also the best effect in an architectural and pic- 

 turesque point of view. (fig. 4\&.) Suppose an 

 octagonal form chosen for a farmery, with the 

 barn (1), straw-room and granary over (2), and 

 mill-shed (3), to the north; then on the left of 

 the barn may be the stable for work-horses (4), 

 and riding-horse stable (5), cattle-house (6), 

 cow-house (7), sick horse (8), sick cow (9), cat- 

 tle-sheds (10), cart-shed (11), boiling and steam- 

 ing house (12), root-house (13), chafF and other 

 stores for steaming, or mechanics' work-shop 

 (14), piggeries (15), poultry-house and rabbitry 

 (16). The yard may be divided in two by a wall 

 running north and south, with a pump, well, or 

 other supply of water in the centre (17). The 

 rick-yard (27) should be to the north of such a 

 farmery, for easy conveyance to the barn : the 

 main entrance (28) should be from the south, 

 opposite the dwelling-house ; side entrances (26) 

 should lead to different parts of the farm and to 

 the main roads of the country, and there should 

 be ponds (25) for washing the horses' feet and 

 for the poultry. The same accommodations 

 may be arranged in a square or circular outline. 

 (figA\9. and 420.) 

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