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C overbed Home stalls. 



ventilation prevents tliat accumulation of ammoniacal vapours 

 which is so common in ordinary farm-buildings where animals 

 are kept. Some other advantages which covered homestalls 



possess are the convertibility of the yards into divisions adapted 

 to different purposes at the several seasons of the year, or to the 

 particular requirements of the occupier, as well as the saving of 

 the expense of making liquid-manure tanks, and the superior 

 quality of the manure in the covered yards to that of ordinary 

 manure made in open yards. 



The arrangements for the threshing are for a portable steam- 

 engine and threshing-machine, but a fixed engine and barn- 

 works can be put up when desirable. Whatever merit there 

 may be in this particular plan for a covered homestall, it is 

 mainly due to Mr. Oakley, the agent at Eastnor, under whose 

 management several have been erected on the estate, of a superior 

 character to any I have elsewhere seen. 



I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, 



Wm. Fisher Hobbs. 



Boxted Lodge, Colchester, May 26, 1853. 



