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SCIENCE OK AGRICULTURE. 



1'aki II. 



garret up-stalrs, and ■ cellar under. The arrangement of this ground plan is excellent, 

 with the single e x ce p t i on of the situation of tin- fireplaces, which in no cottage or small 

 dwelling-house ought to be in the outside wall. A few of such farm-houses and tenants 

 should l>c found in all parts of the country] if for no other reason than to preserve the grada- 

 tion from the labourer to the professional farmer, and from the cottage to the farm-house. 

 i'st:'.. ./ farm-hmue larger than the preceding [Jig- 424 ), and for a fanner and his 



family rather in a better Style, may contain a principal entrance and lobby (a) ; parlour 

 (i) ; closets (<•) ; store-room for meal, cheese, .Ivc yd) ; lumber room for small imple- 

 ments (<■) ; beer cellar ( f ) ; pantry [g) ; dairy (h) ; staircase (i) ; kitchen, with an oven 

 under the stairs, and a boiler on the other side of the fireplace (A) ; coals or wood, and 

 hack entry (/ ; pigsty, with a small opening towards the kitchen for throwing in dish- 

 water, offal, 4c. (in) ; and poultry-house (n) ; with two garret bedrooms over the wings; 

 two good bedrooms and a closet up stairs, and a garret in the roof. 



2874. J form-house of the second lower scale (fig. 425.), executed at Burleigh in 

 Rutlandshire, contains a principal entry (a) ; parlour (b) ; kitchen (c) ; stair (d) ; dairy 

 (e) ; pantry (/) ; cellar (g) ; and cheese-room (h). The three latter are attached to the 

 back part of the house by a continuation downwards of the same roof. By making their 

 ceilings only seven and a half or eight feet high, some small bedrooms may be got above 

 them, having a few steps down from the floor of the front rooms, or a few steps up from 

 the first landing-place. The back door of the kitchen enters into a brewhouse and 

 washhouse, the fireplace and copper being behind the kitchen vent. Beyond this 

 brewhouse is a place for holding fire-wood, &C., in the back wall of which are openings 

 to feed ihe swine. In the kitchen is an oven ; and below the grate a very good con- 

 trivance for baking occasionally, but principally used for keeping the servants' meat 

 warm ; it consists of a cast-iron plate, and door like an oven. The chamber-floor is 

 divided into two rooms forwards, and two small ones backwards. 



2875. Formers dwelling-homes, containing more accommodation and comfort, and 

 displaying appropriate taste and expression of design, will be found in a succeeding 

 section, where farmeries are treated of, and also where we treat of laying out farms. 

 (Part III.) 



Sect. IV. Cottages for Farm Serva7its. 

 •2876. Cottages for labourers are necessary appendages to every farm or landed estate, 

 and no improvement is found to answer the purpose better than building these on a 

 comfortable and commodious plan. In the southern counties of the island, where the 

 farmer's labourer is supposed to change his master once a year, or oftener, the whole 

 business of cottages is commonly left to accident; but in the north a certain number of 

 married servants arc kept on every farm, and a fixed place near the farmery is appointed 



