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Report of the JuJcjes of Farm Plans, 
are constructed under the mangers adjoining the feeding-passages with 
common 12-inch pipes, laid from the outside walls, and having air brick- 
openings every 10 feet apart. The air thus admitted comes into the lower 
parts of the centre of the buildings, where it is most wanted, and will conduce 
greatly to the health of the animals standing continually opposite to each 
other in the stalls. In the roofs of all buildings occupied by horses, cattle, and 
pigs, the ordinary louvre boarding is dispensed with, and an opening 3j inches 
deep for ventilation is provided by putting a " pitching " piece on to the rafters, 
resting on the upper purlin, and footing the short top rafters on to it. This is 
carried all along both sides of the roof, and is more economical than louvres. 
Food Stores. — It will be seen that the straw and various sorts of cattle 
food, as well as the means of converting and mixing the same, are placed 
as near to each other as possible, and convenient for feeding stock at any part 
of the farmer}' by means of the feeding-passages. The second story, com- 
prising the chaff-cutting floor over the mixing-floor, the corn and cake store 
over the turnip-house, and the granary over the winnowing-floor, are all easily 
accessible from the inside or outside of the building for unloading into or 
otherwise. The mixing-floor has a pair of doors large enough to admit a cart, 
which will be found useful in many ways. 
Portable Engine-Shed, and Shafting. — The main shaft is worked by the 
portable engine as it stands in the engine-house, and runs through the steam- 
ing-house into the centre of the food apartments to drive the machinery 
required in any of them. The engine can be drawn to its position in the shed 
without any " backing," which is no small advantage. The house is built low 
to save building material, and necessitates the funnel being turned down when 
drawn in and remaining so. There is, however, a fixed funnel in the roof, 
with a telescopic slide to drop on the engine to take the smoke when in use 
cutting chaff, &c. 
Straw Barn. — A waggon can be admitted here to unload hay, &c., under 
cover on to the cutting-floor, or corn and cake for the corn-room beyond. 
Grain for market from the granary can be hand-trucked, and loaded here in 
the dry. The first stack for threshing after harvest might also be stored here, 
and threshed by the portable engine being admitted through the large doors. 
The straw could be stored on the chaff-cutting floor or in one of the covered 
yards. 
Stables. — Chaff and pulped or cooked food can be brought here with great 
facility from the main food-stores. The feeding-passage in front has many 
advantages, not the least being the ample supply of light and air which can be 
admitted and circulated by means of the windows in front of the horse. There 
is also a direct communication with the straw-barn for supplying litter, which, 
when soiled, can be removed easily by putting it through the shutters pro- 
vided for the purpose into the covered yards. The walls between the stable 
and yards are built up eaves high, to sever all communication. In this respect 
they differ from those of the cowhouses and pigsties. 
Cart Shedding. — This faces the best aspect, the east. The tools are also 
kept here, all to be at band as near as possible to the stables when required. 
Loose Boxes. — These are only provided to a limited extent, the covered 
yards being thought more desirable on account of their general utility. There 
is, however, quite a sufficient supply for any animals which may be found to 
thrive best in separate quarters. 
Pigsties. — The manure made in these is easily cast over the dwarf walls 
which separate them from the yards. The food is close at hand in the boiling- 
house, with its wash-drain direct from the house into the cistern. Should, 
however, the food be prepared in the steaming-house, or if they are used as 
loose-boxes for cattle, lor which tlicy are equally suitable, there is direct and 
easy communication hy means of the feeding-passages. 
