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SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Part II. 



419 



2. Show-room 



3. Mill-shed 



4. Common sta- 



ble 



fi. Riding-horse 



stable 



6. Ox-feeding 



house 



7. Cow-house 



8. Hospital stable 



9. Root and 



steaming 

 house 



10. Cattle-sheds 



11. Cart- shed 



12. Carpenter's 



shed 



13. Smith's forge 



14. Tool-house 

 ( 1.5. Piijgeries 



16. Poultry 

 J 7. Well and cis- 

 tern 



15. Farmer's kit- 



chen 



19. Common par- 



lour 



20. liusiness room 



21. Entrance. 



a. Com-bam 



b. Straw end 



c. Mill-shed 



d. Common stable 

 t. Riding-horse 



stable 

 /.-Hospital 



f. Cattle-shed 

 . Cart-shed 

 . Piggeries 

 J. Poultry 

 k. Piggeries 

 I. Tool-house 

 m. Carjienter 

 n. Smith 

 o. Cattle-sheds 

 p. Root-house 

 q. Cow-house 

 r. Ox-feeding 



house 

 t. Washing-pond 

 t. Side-road 

 u. Entrance to 

 rick-yard 

 V. Pond 

 m. Side road 

 X. Main entrance. 



284& The English corn-barn, in which a large quantity of corn in the straw is to be contained, antJ 

 threshed out with flails, may either be constructed on wooden frames covered with planks of oak, or be 

 built of brick or stone, whichever the country affords in the greatest plenty; and in either case there 

 should be such vent-holes, or openings in their sides or walls, as to afford free admittance to the air, in 

 order to prevent the mouldiness that would otherwise, from the least dampness, lodge in the grain. The 

 gable-ends are probably best of brick or stone, on account of greater solidity ; the whole may be roofed 

 with thatch or tiles, as either can be more conveniently procured. It should have two large folding-doors 

 facing each other, one in each side of the building, for the convenience of carrying in or out a large load 

 of corn in sheaves ; and these doors should be of the same breadth with the threshing-floor, to afford the 

 more light and air; the former for the threshers, and the latter for winnowing. Over the threshing- 

 floor, and a little above the reach of the flail, poles are often laid across from one beam to another, to 

 form a kind of upper-floor, upon which the thresher may throw the straw or haulm, to make an immediate 

 clearing, till he has time to stow it properly elsewhere: and on the outside, over the great doors, it is 

 sometimes convenient to have a large pent-house, made to project sufhciently to cover a load of corn or 

 hay, in case a sudden storm should come on before it can be housed ; and also to shelter the poultry in 

 the farm-yard in great heat or bad weather. It was formerly the custom in countries that abounded in 

 corn to have separate barns for wheat; for spring-corn, such as barley and oats ; and'for peas, tares, lintels, 

 clover, saintfoin, &c. ; but where the grain can be stacked, the heavy expense of so many buildings of 

 this kind may be avoided, tin no description of farm buildings has so much needless expense been 

 incurred as on barns. The most ostentatious in England are those on Coke's estate in Norfolk ; they are 

 built of fine white brick, so large and unscientifically constructed that they cannot be filled with corn 

 from the fear of bursting the side walls. 



2849. The threshing-Jloor, or space on which the grain is threshed out by the flail, is an 

 important object in the English barn. It is for the most part made in the middle of the 

 building ; but may be laid down in any other part, if more convenient, and should always 

 be so formed as to be perfectly close, firm, and strong. In constructing these kinds of 

 floors, various sorts of materials are employed, such as compositions of different earthy 

 kinds, stones, lumps, bricks, and wood. The last substance, when properly laid and put 

 together, is probably the best and most secure from damp. When made of wood, they 

 are sometimes so contrived as to be movable at pleasure, which is a great convenience in 

 many cases : they are made of different dimensions, but from twelve to fourteen by 

 eighteen or twenty feet are in general proper sizes for most purposes. 



