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THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 



BOOK VIII. 



and west. Returning to the east and west range, and taking the parts 

 of it to the left of the leg of the T, as c a in the diagram, we have first 

 (10) the work-horse stable, next (11) the hay house, next (12) the 

 fanner's nag stable, next (13) the food and store room, in which may 

 be placed, if worked by hand, the oat-crushing machines, &c., next (14) 

 the boiling house for preparing mashes, and this end of the range is 

 furnished with (15) a poultry house. Taking now the other half 

 c & of the range a b, we have (16) the machine room (next the 

 engine-house) for preparing the food for dairy cows, &c. ; (17) the 

 mash or boiling house, next (18) the ha} r -house, then (19) the dairy 

 cow-house, and (20) the dairy rooms, comprising wash-house, milk-room 

 with churning and cheese-room, finishing off the range. This back or 

 north range is two-storied, the second story above the point c being (21) 



Fig. 189. Diagram showing disposition of Farm Buildings. 



the apartment to which the grain is carried up by a gangway from 

 the stack-yard behind, and supplied to the threshing machine, and 

 where, also, the grinding mills, &c., are placed. The remainder of the 

 second story towards a from c is taken up by (22) the granary, and the 

 extreme end may be furnished by apartments (23) partitioned off from 

 the granary, and appropriated, one end, say at a, to (24) a cheese store- 

 room, approached by a stair from the cheese-making and churning-room 

 below, and at the other end of the range to (25) a store room. The 

 north and south range c d is also two-storied ; but the straw barn is not 

 provided with a second floor, being open from floor to roof, though the 

 extreme end d may be floored, and a wool store-room or a poultry 

 house (26) may be made there. 



The south range (fig. 190) at e dfis taken up wholly by a series (27) 

 of cattle-feeding boxes on both sides. The west side is occupied by a 

 range of buildings which run parallel to the centre range c d in the first 



