APPENDIX. 443 



In the farm buildings, the fittings up of the poultry-houses, the rabbit- 

 house, and the dairy and dairy scullery, well deserve attention ; and also 

 the arrangement for fermenting the food of the pigs in under-ground cis- 

 terns, not too warm for summer, nor so cold as to check fermentation in 

 winter. The manure of the horses, of the cows, of the pigs, of the rabbits, 

 of the pigeons, and of the poultry, is kept in separate pits, that it may be 

 used, if desirable, in making up different composts. 



There are three liquid-manure tanks, in which the liquid matter, which 

 in most farmyards is wasted, is fermented, and afterwards mixed up with 

 soil for use in the kitchen-garden, or used in forming composts for partic- 

 ular plants. The liquid-manure from the stables is kept apart from that 

 from the cow-house ; and the general drainings of the yard, and of the 

 frame-ground in the kitchen-garden, are fermented by themselves. The 

 liquid manure with which Mr. Pratt waters his plants is formed chiefly of 

 the sweepings of the pigeon, rabbit, and cow houses, with lime ; and is kept 

 in a cask in a close shed, (60 in the plan fig. 6, in p. 424, 425,) so that 

 the temperature admits of its fermenting in winter, as well as in summer : 

 a thick scum rises to the top of the cask, and the liquid is drawn out from 

 the bottom as clear as old ale. The plants which Mr. Pratt waters with this 

 liquid are chiefly those of rapid growth, such as the Dat iira, Erugmansio!, and 

 other soft-wooded tree plants which, like these, are cut in every year, and 

 appear to profit by the stimulating effect of this manure. He gives it also, 

 occasionally, to various other plants which appear to want vigour ; but has 

 not yet had sufficient experience of its efiects, to give a list o f plants to 

 which it ought to be applied. ,% 



In order to produce as much manure as possible, as well for the farm as 

 for the garden, all leaves, haulm, and waste vegetable matters, are carefully 

 collected, and fermented by the addition of fresh stable dung ; and heaps of 

 difierent kinds of soils, procured from different parts of the country, are con- 

 stantly kept in the slip adjoining the frame-ground, ready for use. 



The grounds being nearly level are readily supplied with water from 

 the ponds and from the brook ; and there are concealed wells, communica- 

 ting with these sources by pipes from the brook, in different parts of the 

 grounds, and more especially in the kitchen-garden, from which the plants 

 can be abundantly watered in the growing season with comparatively little 

 labour ; there being six different places, including the ponds and brook, 



