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SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Pa-RT II. 



2949. For a sraall arable and grazing farmy Waistell's farm-house and outbuildings 

 {Jig, 444.) are as follows : The house is on the west side, with a porch in front. 



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Over the pantry may be a convenient store-room. " The barn is forty feet long and 

 eighteen feet wide. The cow-house will contain twelve cattle, and there is a loft over 

 it, which may be used for a store of straw, or unthreshed grain. The approach is sup- 

 posed to be from the east, and the cart-lodge, which is additional, is so placed that it 

 must always be passed as the horses go to the stable ; and the granary over it is conve- 

 niently near the barn. A roost for hens may be made over the pigsty adjoining the 

 cart-lodge ; and under the steps to the granary, and at the inner part behind the carts, 

 the ploughs and harrows may be placed. " The following is an enumeration of the 

 details : a, parlour ; b, kitchen ; c, back kitchen ; d, dairy ; e, pantry ; f, open shed ; 

 g, coals ; /i, kitchen-court ; i, tools ; k, ashes ; /, harness room ; m, five-horse stable ; 

 w, hay and chaff house ; o, calf-house ; p, stable-court ; q, cattle-sheds ; r, fold-yards ; 

 s, hogs'-comt ; t, barn ; u, stalls for twelve cattle or cows, vdth foddering-bay in the 

 centre ; v, cart-lodge vdth granary over ; x, hogsty ; y, hog-yard ; z, cisterns and 

 hogs' troughs. 



2950., The particular requisites of a farm-stead, Marshall observes, are as various as 

 the intentions of farms. A sheep-farm, a grazing-farm, a hay-farm, a dairy-farm, and 

 one under mixed cultivation, may require different situations, and different arrange- 

 ments of yards and buildings. On a farm of the last species, which may be considered 

 as the ordinary farm of this kingdom, the principal requisites are, shelter, water, an 

 area or site suflSciently flat for yards and buildings ; with meadow land below it, to 

 receive the washings of the yards ; as well as sound pasturage grounds above it for a 

 grass-yard and paddocks ; with private roads nearly on a level, to the principal arable 

 lands; and with suitable outlets to the nearest or best markets." The first of which, 

 \vhen wanting in the desired situation, may in time be supplied by plantations and 

 mound-fences ; and where there is not a natural supply of water, a well, water-cellar, or 

 artificial rill may, he says, furnish it. 



2951. For a farm under mixed husbandry, the particulars to be arranged, according 

 to Marshall, may be thus enumerated : 1 . A suite of buildings, adapted to the 

 intended plan of management, as a dwelling-house, barns, stables, cattle-sheds, cart- 

 shed. 2 A spacious yard, common to the buildings, and containing a receptacle or 

 stall-manure, whether arising from stables, cattle-sheds, hogsties, or other buildings ; 

 together w'th separate folds, or straw-yards, furnished with appropriate sheds, for par- 



