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Calf-pens. — Two calf-pens are provided, fed from a gangway in connection 
with the mixing-room, and with access both to covered yard and the external 
road. 
Piggery. — Three large pig-styes (one heing specially prepared for breeding 
purposes) are shown, all under cover, with boiling-house and swill-cistern 
adjoining. The author has had practical experience of the diflBcuIty of breed- 
ing and feeding pigs for sale at a profit in competition with American importa- 
tions, and has provided but little more accommodation in the piggery than is 
needed to supply the house with bacon, &c. 
Fowl-house. — The fowl-house, situate between the calf-pen and piggery, is 
convenient for access from the dwelling-house. 
Offices. — It will be seen that the mixing-room and root-store, with "chop" 
or cutting-room over, are in the centre of the block on the north side adjoining 
the stackyard; tramrails communicate with all parts of the buildings and 
stackyard. In the mixing-room is a brick-built steaming-closet (supplied 
with steam direct from the engine hereinunder described), also a grist-mill. 
The root-house being intended to hold only a few days' supply, space is 
provided to stack the bulk of the roots in clamps in the stackyard to be 
brought in on tram-waggons as required. It is found in practice that this is 
not a waste of time or labour, as the tram-waggons run close to the pulper, 
and roots keep much longer in clamps than when stacked in a building in 
large quantities. 
Straw-ham. — The straw-bam is carried up to the full height of two floors, 
and contains 516 cubic yards of space for storage. It is provided with doors 
to the stackyard and granary, and communicates with the cutting-room above 
the mixing-room. 
Steam-engine. — Motive power is supplied by a portable or a traction engine 
resting on grooves in the floor, by which it is always secured in the same posi- 
tion, and is connected with shafting running the whole length of the chopping- 
room above ; it also supplies the steaming-closet, and is available for threshing, 
steam-ploughing, &c., as may be required. The connection between the engine- 
fimnel and brick chimney-shaft is made by means of a telescope-slide resting 
on the base of the funnel, worked by a lever. This has been carried out in 
practice by the author, and works very satisfactorily. 
A blacksmith's forge, shoeing-place, earth-closet for the use of men, and 
stores for artificial manures, are shown. 
The waggon and implemeut-sheds adjoin the carthorse-stable on either side, 
facing due north. A granary is constructed on the implement-shed, with suit- 
able provision for raising and lowering com fi-om or to waggons underneath. 
Threshing under cover. — The plan under consideration was the only one 
exhibited which provided means for drawing entire stacks to a bam under 
cover, so as to be available in all weathers. The stacks are built on wood- 
frames over tramrails, 7 feet 6 inches gauge, resting either on wheels (old 
railway-waggon wheels answer every purpose) or on the ordinary supports to 
stack frames. In the latter case the frame is lifted by jacks, and wheels are 
inserted under each end. The stacks (except the four centre ones) are then 
drawn by horses on a trolly mnning on rails along the traverse-way, which is 
sunk 2 feet 6 inches below the surface, and thence to the threshing-bam. The 
threshing-drum is placed as shown tmder a Dutch bam, and straw delivered 
direct into the straw-bam. Seven men only are required to perform aU. opera- 
tions, including stacking the straw, cleaning, and weighing the com in sacks 
ready for market. 
Two galvanized hay-bams, 62 feet by 17 feet, on wrought-iron standards, 
are included in the estimate. 
All drainage from the live stock is conducted to a liquid-manure tank : 
rain-water also to tanks as required. 
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