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and permanent at once ; and capacious enough to cure 
and store all the crop his estate will yield when 
fully opened up. If on the other hand bis means 
are limited, he will prefer either a cheap and small 
store for a crop or two, or he will make the build- 
ing perwanent but small at first, and capable of ex- 
tension as the productiveness of the plantation may 
demand. Supposing you intend to open up to 200 
acres, but have begun with 100, a store commodious 
enough for your first and probably your second crop 
also, 40 ft. x20 with a loft, would suffice, and a pulp- 
ing-house 20 ft.x 10 with a cherry loft and pulper 
floor. These could be built of sawn timber and iron- 
roofed for about £200. If you build with a view to 
extension, however, a better size would be 50 ft. x 30, 
taking off 10 feet at the end for your pulping-house. 
Next year you could extend this building to 80 feet 
or even 100, which would be as large as the estate 
would ever require. Extended thus, the outlay on 
store and pulping-house should not exceed from £400 
to £500. If stone or brick and lime are the mate- 
rials used, however, they will cost double this amount. 
But, as before said, this so greatly depends on purse 
and taste, that it is with reluctance I name cost 
price at all in connection with buildings. The figures 
named, however, will suffice for those of a mediocre 
quality. Or you may build a store of jungle wood, 
with sawn timber floors and shingled roof, which will 
do for two or three crops, for about £100, inclusive 
of pulping-house. I have built one of this descrip- 
tion 70 ft x20 with two floors, capable of storing a 
crop of 400 ewt., for £70. This was in a dry district, 
however. In a wet one large accommodation would 
be necessary. Buildings, especially stores, are works 
on which much money is often unnecessarily wasted, 
Houses, larger, stronger, more capacious, and of ma- 
sonry more massive. than the property will ever require 
are frequently built at a ruinous cost fo the proprie- 
tor. Partly this is the result of inexperience; but 
sometimes also it arises from the manager’s desire to 
eclipse his neighbours in the character of his build- 
ings. Many proprietors too indulge in this extrava- 
gance under the belief that it is economy to have all 
the buildings their estate will require made complete 
and permanent at the outset. It will save the con- 
struction of temporary buildings, the cost of which 
they consider money wasted. But I shall shew that 
this is an error; and that it is neither expedient nor 
economical to erect permanent buildings at the com- 
mencement of an estate. It is inexpedient because 
you have many things to learn, such as how the wind 
affects the spot upon which you wish to place your 
