1'2 CONSTRUCTION OF A FARM-HOUSE AND OFFICES. 



be too abundant, it should be taken away by spouts and 

 drains.* 



9. It is evident that the access to the house and offices 

 should be as commodious as possible. The road should be 

 kept in good order. The corners of the garden and inclo- 

 sures to be rounded instead oi square, by which, owing to 

 the great facility of turning, many accidents may be pre-" 

 vented, injurious both to the carts and to the cattle. 



10. A command of water is essential ; it is desirable, there- 

 fore, that the house should be situated near some river or 

 stream ; but if that cannot be obtained, ponds and wells, 

 and the means of conveying water by troughs to the feed- 

 ing-houses, both for horses and cattle, and to the dairy, 

 should be constructed. Nothing can be more injurious to 

 stock, than to compel them to drink at ponds, the water of 

 which is not perfectly salubrious. A bore, made according 

 to Elkington's plan, would in general raise water to supply 

 any part of the offices. 



11. As an appendage to farm-houses, a kitchen-garden 

 is of infinite importance, and may be more profitable to the 

 occupier, than any part of his farm of the same size. This 

 is certainly less essential, since potatoes, turnips, and other 

 articles have been cultivated in the fields ; but stiil it is ex- 

 pedient for a farmer, to have a garden for other articles ; 



* It is said, that where abundance of litter is given in the yards, it 

 hardly ever happens that too much wet gets to them, and that there is 

 sometimes a want of moisture in dry winters. There must, in this re- 

 spect, be a diversity in practice, between the eastern and the western 

 districts of the kingdom. On the eastern coasts, the water that falls 

 from the roofs, may be required, for the litter, though it would be much 

 better to saturate it with urine, and to take great pains in collecting it 

 for that purpose. In dry seasons, on the coast, sea-water may be used 

 with great advantage. 



