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The number of Inclofures which have of 

 late years taken place, and the fpirit of im- 

 l^rovemcnt which has gone forth upon the 

 wolds, have given cxiftence to farmeries 

 of almoft every form and dmienlion. 



The pradlice of houfirig cattle in winter, 

 which will be fpoken to hereafter, requires a 

 greater quantity of building than that of win- 

 tering them in the open yard. But the quan- 

 tity of barn-room rcquifite in this country, 

 even on the arable farm.s is much lefs than 

 in the fouthern counties, where barley and 

 oats are harvefted loofe, and where the fliovel 

 or the fail-fan is ufed in the drefTing of corn. 

 Here corn is univerfally bound, and the ma- 

 chine-fan in almoft univerfal pradtice. In 

 Noriolk, one man expeds a floor of fifteen 

 feet by twenty-four to himfelf; here two men 

 will thrafh contentedly on a floor nine feet 

 by twelve ; ten by fifteen is a full-fized floor. 



Such being the rcquifites of a Yorkfliirfi 



Farmery, it is no wonder that the new ones 



which have been ercded fhould be compofed 



of a firing of fmall buildings, generally 



formed into a fquarc, open to the iouth, in 



imitation of thofe of other countries where 



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