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PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. 



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ire, a chaff-house, corn-rooms, threshing-mill, with water-wheel and straw-house; 

 cattle-sheds, poultry-houses, and piggery; stables, byres, cart-shed, cattle-shed, Hairy' 

 meal-house, lodge for ploughmen, paved way, and cattle-yards. 



416 1. As an example of a small fanner,/ in the count,/ of Stafford, we select that of 



B g 606 K mill wall. (jig. 606.) The extent is 104 



acres ; the soil is strong and rather wet, and 

 there are some water and other meadows. 

 The house and yard-buildings are of brick 

 and tile, and their accommodations are, a 

 kitchen (a), a brew-house (l> ), parlour (c), sit- 

 ting-room (//>, pantry (<?), milk-house (/), 

 court-yard open (g), coals (A), hackney- 

 stable (t), turkey-house (A:), pigsties (7), wag- 

 gon-horse stable(m), corn-bay (/<), barn (.»), 

 si raw-bay (/, ), cow-tyings(y), fodder-bins (r), 

 calf-houses (s), and waggon-shed, granary 

 over, connected with barn (/). 



416.5. As an example of a middle-sized 

 farmery on a clayey soil, we may refer to that 

 of Newstead, in Staffordshire. This farm 

 contains 314 acres, and the tenant, Ford, is 

 s.iid to be an example to the whole country. 

 The accommodations of the farmery are, inthe 

 dwelling-house, an outer kitchen, and kitchen, 

 master's room, brew-house, dairy, pantry, 

 parlour, bedrooms, cheese-room, attics. In 

 the court a shed for waggons, with granary over, hackney stable, waggon-horse stable, 

 cattle-sheds, turnip-houses, fodder-house, straw-bays, threshing-mill with water-wheel, 

 corn-bay, tool-house, workshop, bay for unthreshed corn, small granary, and pigsties. 



4166. As an example of an economical farmery for a farm of 50 or 60 acres, we copy 

 from The General Report of Scotland. The accommodations are : — in the house, a 

 kitchen, parlour, store-room, pantry, with three bedrooms, and a light closet over ; closet, 

 milk-room, and scullery. In the economical buildings are, a stable with a loose stall, 

 byre for ten cows, cattle-shed, bam, cart-shed, with granary over ; pigsties and cattle- 

 yard. This appears one of the most compact and eligible plans for the farmeries of 

 arable farms under 100 acres. 



4 1 67. As an improved Bernnckshbe farmery, we submit another specimen from The 

 General Report. Its accommodations are calculated for a farm of 600 acres, and consist, 

 in the dwelling-house range, of a porch, lobby, dining-room, parlour, kitchen, scullery, 

 coal-place, store-room, dairy, pantry, business-room, poultry, steaming-housc, bailiff's 

 room. The economical buildings contain a riding-horse stable, tool-house, cart-shed, 

 with granary over ; corn-barn, straw-barn, feeding-house for 36 head of cattle, root- 

 house, byre for cows, calf-pens, stable for ten horses, pigs, with yard and troughs, cattle- 

 sheds, dung-basin, and urinarium under ; cattle-yards, cart-road paved, rick-yard, mill 

 track, open court, lawn, garden, and orchard. 



4168. A farmery for a turnip soil of from 600 to 900 acres, from the same work, 

 deserves consideration as a very complete specimen of arrangement. Omitting the 

 farm-house, the economical buildings contain a stable, cow-house, servants' cow, root- 

 house, young horses' stable, straw-barn, corn-barn, stable, cart-shed, place for pickling 

 wheat, killing sheep, or other odd jobs ; feeding-house, carpenter's workshop, pigs, geese, 

 common poultry, turkeys, pigs, cattle-sheds, dung and straw courts, with urinariums in 

 the centre of each, paved cart-road round, open court between the yard and dwelling- 

 house, rick-yard, paddocks of old pasture, ponds for drinking and washing the horses' 

 legs. 



4169. The accommodations for a farm-house, suitable to such a design and to the 

 style of life which the person who can occupy such a farm is entitled to enjoy, are as 

 follows: — In the parlour story there is a lobby, with staircase to chambers and cellars, 

 drawing-room, bedroom, a family work-room, dining-room, business-room, kitchen, 

 barrack-room or manservant's room, store-room, dairy, See. On the first floor are two 

 best bedrooms, two other bedrooms, bed-closets, another closet, and a water-closet ; over 

 are servants' rooms. 



4170. As a farmer,/ for an arable farm near London of 3.50 acres (fig. 607.), we shall 

 give as an example one erected (with some variations) in the county of Middlesex, in 

 1810. It is to be observed, that in Middlesex farming a great object is hay, especially 

 meadow hay, for the London market, which gives rise to the covered spaces for loaded 

 carts (x) ; it being the custom to load the carts at night, place them undercover, and yoke 

 and go on the road early the following morning. The accommodations of this farmery 



