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in the centre of the principal apartment, it will prove highly 

 serviceable to the dairy-maid. 



Cowhouses, &c. are often kept separate from the other 

 offices, and erected at no great distance from the dairy. Placed 

 within a grass paddock, and grouped with stacks of hay or 

 straw, and some trees, they often form interesting combi- 

 nations. 



The poultry-houses require some attention from the de- 

 signer in laying out a residence. Their site should be naturally 

 warm, and well sheltered by high walls, near the yard, and 

 wood* at some distance. The apartments for the more delicate 

 birds should be heated by flues. 



The pheasantry should be constructed near abundance of - 

 woody cover, which should be inclosed by a high fence, and the 



* There are many mistaken ideas extant respecting; shelter.. Wood and trees 

 break the violence of storms, either of wind or snow : but after rain, or the melting 

 of frost or snow, they really produce cold, from the evaporation which of necessity 

 takes place on the leaves. All moist surfaces do this on the same principles. Per- 

 haps the best trees for shelter are spruce firs, which from the resinous quality as 

 well as linear form, of their leaves, do not retain much moisture. Hence when it 

 rains on them, the water falls to the ground, and sinks through the decayed leaves 

 on its surface into the soil, and consequently little evaporation takes place. Perhaps 

 from this may be deduced the chief reason why the spruce delights in a moist soiL 



