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stone of the district, and pointed with light grey 

 coigns and dressings from Ruabon, have become more 

 and more embedded in its groves of larch and fir ; and 

 while a " Capability Brown" has been busy among the 

 terraces and gardens without, Sir Edwin Landseer 

 and cunning ornithologists have furnished many of 

 their choicest treasures for within. 



The farm buildings, which occupy no less than six 

 acres, and lie about half a mile away from the house, 

 were begun in '52. The five vaults for roots are each 

 two yards in height, by three in breadth, and forty 

 yards long, and another root house occupies the entire 

 space above them ; and it is as much as two men with 

 a horse and cart can do to clean up the daily manure. 

 Water collected from the dingles and drains on the 

 farm plays a sixty horse-power part, in accordance 

 with the cunning triple arrangement. It is worked 

 through turbine No. 1 in the top compartment, which 

 drives the thrashing-machine and chaff-cutter ; then it 

 is returned thirty-two feet below to No. 2, which is 

 attached to the flour and pulping mills, and the sawing 

 machines ; and lastly, to a much lower level, where 

 No. 3 grinds bones and pumps liquid manure into the 

 tank on Moel-y-Mabb, 500 feet above the level of the 

 folds. Eighty tons of bones are ground annually. 

 The pulped roots and other prepared substances are 

 conveyed over canvas working on a succession of 

 rollers into bins below, where they are mechanically 

 mixed in proper proportions, and conveyed by tram- 

 roads to the feeding stalls and the winter houses. 

 The liquid manure is carried through iron tubes over 

 nearly seven hundred acres. It has more effect on the 

 alluvial soil than the clay ; but go where we might 

 over the farm, we saw pipes ready to receive the hose 

 for its application, and its liquid arch busy at work on 

 the young grasses. 



The herd was under the charge of the bailiff, Mr. 

 David Williams, who has always been on the estate, 



