20 CONSTRUCTION OF A FARM-HOUSE AND OFFICES. 



eighteen feet wide, upon the supposition that the horses all 

 stand with their heads to the wall, which is the custom for 

 farm-horses in all stables recently built. In this way the 

 access is easy in the longest stable, both for removing the 

 dung, and supplying the horses with provender. With 

 respect to cattle, he adds, that it requires three feet eight 

 inches to give due room to a bullock of 45 stone Amster- 

 dam weight ; and if the house is fifteen feet in breadth, or 

 at the most sixteen feet, cattle may not only be comfortably 

 accommodated, but full access permitted to supply them 

 with food, and remove their dung. Many cattle-houses 

 are not made more than fourteen feet in width, some of 

 them even less ; but fifteen feet may, on the whole, be con- 

 sidered as a very proper size. At the same time, where 

 the expence can be afforded, more ample space may be 

 given, and will probably be found advantageous. 



4. It is maintained by some, that the farmer should have 

 a view, from a window in that room where he usually 

 sits, of what is going forward in the farm-yard,* the very 

 idea of which, it is said, keeps the servants in awe, and 

 may often prevent negligence and depredations. It is cer- 

 tainly desirable, that the farmer should be able to command 

 a view of the other parts of the farm from the windows of 



be accommodated in a space of sixteen feet by eight, leaving room for 

 bringing them their food and litter, and carrying away the dung. Cows 

 require nearly the same room in the breadth of the cow-house, but usu- 

 ally stand much closer together ; so that on the average six feet may 

 serve two cows for the above purpose, where the breed is not large. In 

 many feeding-houses for cattle, for the convenience of feeding at the 

 bead, there are holes left in the wall, with shutters, to allow of putting 

 in the food. 



* It is known that a farmer has on every door a large patch, painted 

 of a different colour, as white upon black or black upon white, that ho 

 may see at a distance when any one of them happens to be open. 



