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money ; if one gets broken any labourer can replace it ; tliey are very porous, 
and consequently more healthy for stock ; and if their red appearance is 
objected to, they can be had glazed or coloured at a very little extra cost. 
37(6 House. — The house should in all cases be on the south side of the farm 
buildinj^s, to admit of a view being obtained in case of anything being amiss ; 
and whatever the other arrangement of the house may be, the sitting-room 
should be at the north-west corner, and the kitchen at the north-east, as it is 
these rooms, and the sleeping-rooms over, that will be principally occupied by 
the master and servants, and therefore more supervision obtained. The cost 
of the house will probably be 21. per acre, according to the size of the farm. 
The iSite. — Before concluding our remarks we ought to add a word or two 
about the site, as there nre several points that must be kept in view, and 
upon which it is necessary for the jiractical mind to be exercised. The 
homestead should be as near as possible to a good public road, where good 
water can be had for a water power, if possible, with a porous subsoil 
naturally, or made so artificially, for neither the farmer's family nor his stock 
will thrive on a wet fusty or boggy soil ; and lastly, as nearly as possible at 
the junction of the arable and pasture land, for the cattle not to have far to 
travel on the one hand, or the horses on the other, for as farm-horses only 
travel about 2 miles per hour, 12 horses and G men, at id. per hour, cost the 
farmer 6s. every day doing nothing, if they have to go half a mile to work and 
come home once in the day. 
Bill of Quantities and Detailed Estimate. 
Yards. 
Feet. 
Inches. 
No. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
loo 
cube 
Digging to trenches, pit filled in 
5 
18 
6 
14 
Concrete in foundations, at 6s. 
4 
10 
4 
0 
0 
0 
1912 
sup. 
Keduced 9 in. brickwork in mortar, 
478 
0 
0 
245 
•• 
Hard common brick flat floor in 
mortar, on a bed of ashes, at 2s. 3d. 
27 
11 
3 
14 
Brick on edge floor in mortar, on a 
bed of ashes, at 3s. 6d. 
2 
9 
0 
180 
Floor composed of 6 in. concrete, 
levelled and floated to a fair face 
and finished witii a coating of tar 
composition, f in. thick, at Is. Gd. 
13 
10 
0 
102 
Floor composed of 6 in. concrete, 
levelled and floated to a fair face 
and finished with a coating of 
asphalte, i in. thick, at 3s. 9d. .. 
19 
2 
6 
75 
.. 
206 
206 
206 
run 
4 in. forest stone floor on a hard, well 
rammed and level bed, at 4s. Qd. 
Extra to half-round blue-brick curb 
Extra to forming chase, 8 by Ij in. 
Cattle trough (cisterns measured in) 
formed of 1 brick low wall with 
blue-brick ourb in cement, the 
bottom and sloping side in quarries 
and fitted with large iron staples 
16 
1 
0 
20 
17 
14 
17 
12 
6 
4 
2 
0 
Carried forward .. .. £ 
600 
16 
3 
vor 
. XV.- 
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