PART IT. 



AGRICULTURE. 



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with all the parts of the farm, the park, the paddock, and the 

 public roads ; and should, if possible, be in a situation to take 

 the proper advantage of wind or water, &c. Besides the prin- 

 cipal group of houses, which, as mentioned under Architec- 

 ture, should be dignified or elevated in character, other sheds 

 and hovels for shelter of cattle, and hay-ricks, may be distri- 

 buted in different parts of the old pastures, which, besides their 

 utility, have an excellent effect as objects in rural scenery. 



The management of farms includes a great variety of 

 objects. But as it is a branch in general better known by bai- 

 liffs than most others, and besides, as it does not come within 

 the province of a designer in laying out a residence, scarcely any 

 thing need be offered here. I shall just mention, that gentle- 

 men, in choosing bailiffs, should endeavour to obtain them as 

 much as possible from a soil and situation similar to their own, 

 but farmed in a more scientific and profitable manner : or they 

 should first ascertain what species of husbandry or management 

 will best suit their situation, what particular improvements 

 might be introduced, such as the drill husbandry, flooding, irri- 

 gation, cultivation of peat moss, &c. and then procure a person 

 from a part of the country where these practices are best per- 

 formed. Where such places are, is easily learned, either from 

 any well-informed land valuator, or from the agricultural re- 



