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of the Hoor to the other. To obtain this ne- 

 ccflary length of floor, a porch, on one or both 

 fides of the barn, is almoft univerfal. A lean-to 

 porch, with double doors to let out an empty 

 waggon, and with a range of lean-to llieds or 

 hovels on cither fide, continuing the roof of 

 the barn, without a break to the eaves of the 

 porch and Iheds, is at prefent, defervedly, in 

 good eftimation. 



III. Barn-floors are of plank, " lumps" (a 

 kind of bricks), or clay : the lafl are mofl pre- 

 valent ; and altho' they be confidered as inferior 

 to the firfl, they are in better eHecm in Nor- 

 folk than in moil other places ; for a Norfolk 

 farmer is aware that what he lofes by the han- 

 dle of his corn, thrafhed on a clay floor, he re- 

 gain.> by ttieafure ; for the lame duft which 

 gives the roughnefs of handle in the famplc, 

 prevents the corn, thus foiled by the clay's 

 beating up, from fettling fo clofe in the bufliel 

 as that which has been thraflicd on a clean 

 wooden floor. 



IV. The stables are no way peculiar; except 

 in their having, in general, a " hay-houfe" 

 adjoining to them, inftead of a hay-chamber 



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