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the paddocks, they are to be so fitted up, that the 

 length of them will take the breadth of the building. 

 There are to be doors at each end, cut through the 

 centre, so as to have, when requisite, the top parts 

 open, for the admission of plenty of air. // is a 

 granary, twenty feet by twenty-six : apertures are to 

 be left in the walls of this building, for putting in a 

 sort of Venetian blind, for the admission of air and 

 light. Partitions, to contain corn, should be formed 

 round tlie walls ; they should be made moveable, as 

 occasion may require, so that the boys, in turning the 

 oats to keep them sweet, may easily shift them from 

 one place to the other. There should also be some 

 small partitions for beans, bran, chafl, and oatmeal : in 

 this granary may be kept a chaff machine, and a mill 

 for splitting beans. / is a space, left as a reservoir, for 

 the accumulation of manure, with a wall raised to a 

 sufficient height in front. J is a door leading to the 

 paddock, in which the green food is grown. 



In the east wing, No. 1 is a barn for straw. No. 2, 

 a coal and wood house. No. 3, a loose box. No. 4, 

 a four-stall hack stable, in which apertures are to be 

 left in the front wall, for a door in the centre, and a 

 window on each side, as in the other stables, and of 

 the same dimensions as those in the front yard ; and 

 on the top of the stall posts there should be rings, to 

 fasten pillar-reins to. There should also be the same 

 description of ring, properly placed near to the top on 

 both sides of each stall, as this stable may be occasi- 

 onally wanted for colts to stand while being broke. 



