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If a barn be built againft a rifing ground, 

 this objedion falls in part, or wholly. Even 

 on plain ground, it appears to me that (efpc- 

 cially where cattle are houfed) it would be 

 greatly over-balanced by the advantage of 

 obtaining a fuite of flables, cart-houfc, and 

 cattle houfes, without the expence of roofing, 

 in the firft inilance ; and which, if fubllan- 

 tially built, would laft for ages to come 

 v»'ithout repairs. 



The flooring of a chamber-barn might on 

 the whole be fomewhat more expcnfive 

 than that of a ground-floor barn ; but the 

 thralhing-floors, if of plank, would be laid 

 cheaper and laft much longer, in the former 

 than in the latter fpecies of building j 

 and the mow-floors, if laid with clay on 

 rods *, would foon regain their extra coft in 

 keeping the bottoms of the mows dry and 

 fweet; and in preferving it more fccure from 

 vermin than ground-floors generally do. 



It is far from my intention even to inti- 

 mate that in corn countries, fuch as Norfolk, 

 Kent, and other Diftrid:s, where cattle are 



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