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ing" shall be beam-filled. The engine- seat and all the openings 

 for the machinery shall be formed with large-sized droved ashlar, 

 as shall be directed. 



The boiler and stalk shall be formed with brick- work ; the 

 former to have fire-brick flues all round, and communicating with 

 the latter. The engine and boiler-house floors shall also be laid 

 with droved pavement. 



The liquid manure tank will be formed below the centre loose 

 box, 8 feet deep, 10 feet long,and 4 feet broad, built with ruble stone, 

 and covered with 4-inch flags. The extent and situation of all the 

 drains throughout the buildings are shown upon the plans, and 

 will be formed with common drain tiles, all laid to the proper 

 declivities, and made to communicate with the tank : those from 

 farm-house shall be of tubular stoneware, 6 inches diameter, and 

 run into a cesspool built and placed in the most convenient 

 situation. 



The piggeries and privy will be formed with straight-faced 

 pavement, jointed and batted together with iron and run lead. 



Cattle courts will be cleared out, about 2 feet on an average 

 lower than the roadv/ays. 



The whole of the crooks and bands or rods for rollers for the 

 doors will be cut and run into the stones. 



The kitchen court of farm-house shall be neatly causewayed ; 

 all the door-steps and plats shall be of droved work. The floor 

 of porch shall be laid with polished pavement of fair sizes. The 

 dairy shall be provided with polished stone shelves, of the requisite 

 number and sizes. 



The mason- work of the cottar-houses shall be completed similar 

 to corresponding portions of the above work. 



All the necessary raglets will be cut where required. 



The lime, hewn and ruble stones, will be laid down on the site 

 by the proprietor; and the workmanship of the same, together 

 with all the other materials, including the above, requisite for the 

 due performance of the works, will be provided for by the con- 

 tractor for the mason- work. 



Carpenter and Joiner Works. — All the openings throughout 

 the buildings shall have the requisite safe lintels, 1 inch in thick- 

 ness to every foot of opening, and 6 inches of wall-hold, and 

 closely fitted up to the outside stone lintels. The beams, cart- 

 shed, openings, granary-floors, and those over pillars of sheds 

 shall be of the proper sizes, and have 12 inches of wall-hold. 

 The form and construction of the whole of the roofing will be 

 finished, as shown on the plans, elevations, and sections, to the 

 following sizes : — Scantling 6J inches by 2^ inches ; baulks or 

 ties 6 inches by 2 inches; and struts 4 inches by If inches, — all 

 neatly joined and firmly nailed, and placed 19 inches apart from 



