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TIIACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Book II. 



all the stacks are in their places, and untouched ; but as they are removed to the barn the 

 appearance of the flat-roofed sheds will not be so consonant to established notions of 

 beauty ami neatness. 



4174. A farmer 11 for a meadow-jhrm of 250 acres near London (jig. 613.), maybe 

 ai i an'ed as follows : The house may contain a porch, lobby, and stair to chambers and 



cellars (a), parlour (b), bedroom or study (c), pantry (rf), kitchen (e), lumber-room (/), 

 business-room (£),back kitchen (h), coal cellar and maid's room over (;'), wood-house 

 (jfr), yard and pump (/), pifjs (m), chaise (n), poultry (o), tools and roots, &e. (p), two 

 si ails, and a saddle and harness place (q), harrows and large implements, &c. (r), 

 bailiff's house or men's lodge (s), cows (t), chaff-cutting room, and granary over (u), 

 straw-barn (<•), corn-floor (w), unthrcshed corn (x), stable and stall for litter ( y), loaded 

 or empty carts and implements (z), watering-trough ($•), rick-stands (1), bailiff's garden 

 (J), master's garden (3), lawn (4), paddock of old grass (5). 



41 7 j. An anomalous design for a turnip-farm of 500 acres ( fig. 615 ) contains a 

 dwelling-house (a), on an eminence commanding not only the farmery (/>), but great 

 part of the farm. It is surrounded by the ricks for shelter (c), and by a pond (d), which 

 drives the threshing-machine (e), and forms a foreground to the distant scenery. There 

 are a large feeding-shed (/), a bailiff's house and garden (g), and the other usual ac- 

 commodations. The elevation of the feeding-sheds and end of the barn looking towards 

 the house is simple and not inelegant, (fig. 614.) Farmeries of this sort are not sub- 



mitted as examples for general imitation, but merely as sources of ideas to such as have 

 the designingof this- species of rural buildings, for employers who have a taste for design 

 and for originality, and who can afford to gratify that taste. It is a poor business, and 

 one which never can procure much applause, when a proprietor of wealth and cultivated 

 mind erects for his own use the same sort of farmery, or, indeed, of any other buildings, 

 as the tenants who support him. In East Lothian, Berwickshire, Northumberland, and 

 on the Marquis of Stafford's estates both in England and Scotland, are some noble 

 examples of substantial, commodious, and even elegant farmeries. (See Gen. Rep. <<f 

 Scotland, and Loch's Imp. on the Marq. rf Stafford's Estates, ^c. 8vo. 1819.) 



