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16, Mushroom-shed, in which the mushrooms are grown in 

 Oldacre's manner. 



17, Wood-yard, shaded by three elm trees. 



18 18, Calf-pens. 19, Cow-house. 20, Tool-house. 



21, Piggeries. 



22, 23, 24, Places for fattening poultry, on Mowbray's plan, 

 not, as usual, in coops. Between this and 25 is a privy for 

 the head gardener. 



25, Place for meat for the pigs, which is passed through a 

 shoot to 26. 



26, Two tanks sunk in the ground, covered with hinged flaps, 

 the upper edges of which lap under the plate above, so as to 

 shoot off the rain, for souring the food intended for the pigs. 

 One tank, which is much smaller than the other, is used 

 chiefly for milk and meal for the fattening pigs, and sows with 

 pigs ; and the other for the wash and other refuse from the 

 house, for the store pigs, which, with the refuse from the gar- 

 den, apple-loft, &c, amply supplies the store pigs and sows, 

 without any purchased food, except when they have pigs suck- 

 ing. The good effect of the fermentation or souring is ac- 

 counted for by chemists, who have found that it ruptures the 

 ultimate particles of the meal or other food ; a subject treated 

 in detail in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, vol. vii. 

 p. 445. According to the doctrine there laid down, the globules 

 of meal, or farinaceous matter of the roots and seeds of plants, 

 lie closely compacted together, within membranes so exqui- 

 sitely thin and transparent, that their texture is scarcely to be 

 discerned with the most powerful microscope. Each farina- 

 ceous particle is, therefore, considered as enveloped in a vesicle, 

 which it is necessary to burst, in order to allow the soluble or 

 nutritious part to escape. This bursting is effected by boiling, 

 or other modes of cookery; and also, to a certain extent, by 

 the stomach, when too much food is not taken at a time : but 

 it is also effected by the heat and decomposition produced by 

 fermentation ; and, hence, fermented food, like food which has 

 been cooked, is more easily digested than uncooked or unfer- 

 mented food. Plants are nourished by the ultimate particles 

 of manure, in the same way that animals are nourished by the 

 ultimate particles of food ; and hence fermentation is as essen- 

 tial to the dunghill as cookery is to food. The young gar- 

 dener, as well as the young farmer, may learn from this the 

 vast importance of fermentation, in preparing the food both 

 for plants and animals. 



27, Furnace and boiler, for boiling dogs' meat, heating pitch, 

 &c. ; placed in this distant and concealed spot to prevent risk 

 from fire when pitch or tar is boiled; and, when meat is 

 boiled for dogs, to prevent the smell from reaching the garden. 



