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42, Hatching-house for hens, containing boxes, each 1 ft. square within, 

 with an opening in front 7 in. wide and 7 in. high, the top being arched, 

 so that the sides of the opening are only 5 in. high. 



43, Lobby to Mr. Pratt's house. 44, His kitchen. 



45, Living-room. 



46, Oven, opening to 47. 



47, Brewhouse, bakehouse, and scullery, containing a copper for brewing, 

 another for the dairy utensils, and a third for washing, besides the oven 

 already mentioned. 



48, Dairy. The milk dishes are of white earthenware ; zinc having been 

 tried, but having been found not to throw up the cream so speedily and 

 effectively as had been promised. One zinc dish, with handles, is used 

 for clotted cream, which is regularly made during the whole of the fruit 

 season, and occasionally for dinner parties, for preserved tarts, etc. We 

 observed here small tin cases for sending eggs and butter to town. The 

 butter, wrapped in leaves, or a butter cloth, is placed in the bottom of a 

 tin box about a foot square, so as to fill the box completely ; and another 

 tin box is placed over it, the inner box resting on a rebate, to prevent its 

 crushing the butter below it. In this latter box, the eggs are packed in 

 bran, after which the cover of the outer one is put on, and the whole 

 may then be sent to any distance by coach. The dairy is supplied with 

 water from a pump in the scullery ; the water being conveniently distri- 

 buted in both places by open tubes and pipes. 



49, Coachman's living-room. 



50, Coachman's kitchen, and stairs to two bedrooms over. 



51, Court for enclosing the coachman's children. 



52, Lobby to the dairy. 53, Lobby to Mr. Pratt's brewhouse. 

 54, Cellar. 55, Chicken-yard. 



56, Farmer's yard. 



57, A gravelled court separating the coach-yard, 59, from the stable-yard, 

 56. 



58, Place for slaughtering in. 59, Stable-yard. 



60, Shed for compost, and various other garden materials ; such as a tub 

 for liquid manure, in which it ferments and forms a scum on the top, 

 while the liquid is drawn off below by a faucet with a screw spigot, such 

 as is common in Derbyshire and other parts of the north, which admits 

 the water to come out through the under side of the faucet. Here are 



