18 CONSTRUCTION OF A FARM-HOUSE AND OFFICES. 



pie employed to manage it. The straw-barn, as recom- 

 mended by Mr Walker of Wooden, should be so large as 

 to pile up the straw of two stacks when threshed, so that a 

 considerable quantity of straw may always be kept in good 

 order for fodder. Indeed, the straw-barn ought to be so 

 contrived, as to keep different kinds of straw separate, at 

 least separately accessible, for fodder, and for litter, as 

 bean or pease haulm, the straw of white corn, &c. Where 

 cattle are fed on straw, (which it would be better to dis- 

 pense with, if richer food, as will afterwards be explained* 

 could be provided for them) the farmer would otherwise 

 be obliged to thresh more frequently than he would wish 

 to do. There ought to be a granary adjacent to the barn, 

 in which the grain, when threshed, may be put, the lower 

 part of which will furnish space for a cart-shed, which 

 ought to be large enough to hold two carts for every 

 plough. Others recommend, that the granary should be 

 placed under the roof of the barn itself, by the addition of 

 another floor, into which the grain, when dressed, may be 

 conveyed by " hoisting tackle," driven either by the thresh- 

 ing-mill, or by hand, from the ground-floor.* 



3. In regard to the size of the stables, cow-houses, and 

 feeding-sheds, much must depend on the manner in which 

 the farm is occupied ; as to the feeding-sheds, in particu- 

 lar, whether it is most advantageous to rear young cattle 

 for the grazier, or to fatten older stock for the butcher > 

 but it is a* rule that ought never to be departed from, not 

 to stint them in point of space, but to give the stock ample 

 accommodation.f Where horses are kept in stalls, Mr 



* Farmer's Magazine for June 1812, p. 225. 



|- Mr Sliirreff's observations upon this subject are well entitled to at- 

 tention. He thinks that all horses so heavy and large that two are 



