24 NOTES. 



219 Mr Salmon, of Woburn, has invented a portable machine for weighing 

 oxen, at from L.25 to L.30. Bedfordshire Report, p. 215. 



220 Called also the plough-ear, earth-board, plat, wrest, &c. &c. 



221 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. Appendix, No. 5, p. 28. --Some direc- 

 tions for cutting down, and preparing wood for agricultural machinery, ex- 

 tracted from Lord Kames's Gentleman Farmer, will be found in the General 

 Keport of Scotland, vol. i. p. 251. 



222 In laying by a plough, the share should always be knocked off, and the 

 head, or bottom, cleaned from earth. 



225 Coventry's Discourses, p. 49. General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 252. 



224 Curwen's Report, p. 77. 



225 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 125. Surrey Report, p. 78. 



226 In the Bedfordshire Report, (p. 20), there are two plans of houses, of 

 equal area, one square, the expense estimated at L. 735, and the other octago- 

 nal, at L. 671 i but except where the houses are very wide, or where wood is 

 very dear, the square shape is reckoned the most economical. It may not be 

 improper to add, that in preparing lime for plastering the inside of a house, it 

 should, when quick, be immersed in hot water, instead of cold, which rarifies 

 the air in every particle of the lime, makes it softer to work, and prevents it 

 entirely from blistering. 



227 It is much to be lamented, that the old mode of open-field tillage, and 

 collecting all the farm-steads of the neighbourhood, into one spot, should still 

 continue in many parts of England. Where this miserable system is persever- 

 ed in, all the corn must be carted into the village, and all the manure carted 

 back, sometimes up and down steep hills, with immense labour, and an increased 

 wear and tear of the stock and implements. 



228 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. i. p. 20. Where it is practicable, it is of 

 great importance, that the house should be so situated, that the farmer can see 

 several fields on his farm, and at the same time can command a full view of the 

 farm-yard, that the doors of the several buildings in it, cannot be opened 

 but in sight of the master's sitting room. 



229 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. i. p. 46. 



230 Kent's Norfolk, p. 112. 



231 In exposed situations, where no part of the house is intended to be 

 shaded from the western sun by an adjoining building, the house should front 

 the south, and the south-west angle should be extended to contain the kitchen, 

 leaving a passage, or common entrance, west, between the kitchen and parlour. 

 In this case the dairy and cellar, larder and store-room, may be commodiously 

 shaded from the south and west, and thorough-air may be obtained from the 

 passage. 



232 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. i. p. 7. 



233 To large barns there are many objections. If com is damp, when put 

 in a barn, it is more liable to heat and settle, and more difficult to turn over. 

 Indeed in a late and wet climate, where corn can hardly keep in a stack, it is 

 infatuation to put it in a barn. Curwen's Report, p. 84. 



234 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 128. 



235 Thin flat stones employed in a roof, are much improved, by the practice 

 adopted in Dumfriesshire, of painting over with coal-tar, or coal oil. A 

 covering that was almost useless in a moist climate, is thus rendered impervious 

 to water ; and straw roofs being thence rendered unnecessary, a great addition 

 is made to the dunghill. Dumfriesshire Report, Appendix, p. 507. 



236 In Monmouthshire, they build two cottages, one above another, and the 

 lower one is arched. Report, p. 28. 



237 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 130. 



238 Remark by Mr Middleton. 



239 Middlesex Report, p. 41. 



240 Coventry's Discourses, p. 52. 



