SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Part II. 



are a stable, with a harness-room, and a place for keeping corn {f) ; a root-house (<^), 



over which, or over the barn, may be a 

 granary; a shed for carts {h) ; a place for 

 keeping large implements, as ploughs and 

 harrows (J) ; for keeping smaller imple- 

 ments, as spades, shovels, rakes, forks, 

 &c., and for the reception of old iron and 

 many other useful things that might 

 otherwise be lost or thrown away {k) ; a 

 pond for washing the horses' feet (/), 

 which slopes down from each extremity 

 towards the middle, where it is deepest, 

 that the horses may easily go in at one 

 end, and come out at the other, with a 

 rail at each end, to prevent their going in 

 during frost, or when not wanted to go in ; 

 a pump, with a trbugh for the horses or 

 cattle to drink out of, especially while 

 other water is frozen, or when the water 

 in the pond is dirty (m) ; but, if it can 

 be contrived so that the water which drives 

 the mill may run through this pond, it 

 vein be preferable, as being at all times 

 clean and wholesome. One material 

 advantage of this arrangement, Beatson 

 remarks, is, that the fodder consumed 

 upon the farm goes progressively forward from the barn-yard through the cattle-houses 

 to the dunghill, without the unnecessary labour generally occasioned by carrying it 

 backwards and forwards : for it comes from the barn-yard into the barn, where it is 

 threshed ; it is then put in the straw-house, and given to the cattle immediately below ; 

 and, after passing through them, it is thrown into the dung-court. A rick of straw or 

 hay, built behind the stable or cow-house, or in a shed contiguous to either, -with, proper 

 conveniences, will have the same progressive course to the dunghill : for, it will be 

 observed, the communication from these is equally easy from without or within ; the rail 

 across the calf-pen being intended chiefly to keep in the calves, while the doors on each 

 side are open, during the conveyance of the dung that way from the stable to the dung- 

 hill. 



2953. The ground plan of the dwelling-house to this farmery (n) has a dairy, pantry, 

 and various conveniences behind for keeping swine, poultry, coals, &c. The stair to the 

 upper chambers rises from either side to the same landing-place ; from which are a few 

 steps up to the chamber-floor. 



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