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extend north towards the stack-yard, with a gangway through on the south. 
The floor over this range contains granary, mill-room, and chaff-room. The 
mixing or preparing room is fitted with the cake and meal bins, chaff steam- 
ing-chamber, steamers and tanks for mixed food and milk. The north range 
consists of waggon, cart, and implement sheds, artificial-manure store, 
infirmary, engine-room, boiler-shed, and chimney-stack. The poultry-house 
adjoins the boiler and stack, and is provided with circulating flues for warmth. 
Eoot-house, bull-box, and tool-house. Adjoining the mixing-house, with a 
southerly aspect, are the pig-dens and courts for 150 pigs, all roofed in, with 
two open yards adjoining. The cart-stables are placed on the north-east, and 
enclose a yard for colts or young stock, provided with a shelter-shed. 
On the west side, and opposite the cow-houses, is the dairy or factory for 
the conversion of the milk into cheese and butter, and comprises a milk- 
room, store for clean utensils, churning-room, engine-room, wash-house, 
cheese and butter-making room. To equalise the temperature the walls are 
built " hollow," with double roofs covered with felt and tiled. A 6-foot 
verandah is carried round three sides, and the windows are provided with 
outside Venetian shutters. The walls internally are lined with Marsden's 
patent glazed interlocking tiles. 
Throughout the premises particular attention is paid to the ventilation 
and drainage. All the feeding-passages are fitted with a tramway, likewise the 
cow-houses, for the removal of the manure and milk. The buildings throughout 
to be supplied with water from a well and pumped into a 3000-gallon cistern 
for distribution. A 10-horse power engine for the farm premises, and a 
3-horse power engine for the dairy fed from a Cornish boiler, will work 
all the machinery and pump water. The roofs are spouted and drained 
into a tank near the boiler. The dairy premises to be heated by hot-water 
pipes in the winter, and means are provided for raising the temperature of the 
■water supplied to the cows. 
" CoLONicns." 
Description by the Author. 
In this design all the buildings except the waggon-shed and artificial-manure 
stores are grouped together in a parallelogram, 184 feet by 121 feet, the total 
cubic space, including walls and roof, being 380,390 feet, of which rather more 
than three-fourths are devoted to accommodation of live stock, and the 
remainder to the necessary offices. Full particulars of the provision made for 
the various classes of stock are given in the accompanying schedule. The 
design also includes an arrangement for drawing in entire stacks on wheels, 
and thrashing under cover. 
The buildings face due south, with the waggon and implement-sheds, 
mixing-room, straw-barn, and stackyard, on the north side. 
It has been the endeavour of the architect, who also occupies a small ex- 
perimental farm and is a successful exhibitor of stock, to so arrange the 
premises as to reduce the labour of attending cattle as much as possible, to 
provide easy means of communication, and to construct the buildings in a plain 
and substantial manner, avoiding everything tending to render necessary large 
periodical outlays for painting and repairs. 
Stalks. — The stables are in all cases 18 feet from back to front, and the 
stalls 6 feet wide ; thus allowing ample space for hanging up gearing behind 
each horse. There is direct communication with the covered yards for dis- 
posal of manure, and also with the mixing-room and stack-yards, by means of 
