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Report of the Judges of Farm Plans, 
" Utility." 
Description by the Author. 
The Plans, No. 18 Motto, " Utility,"— by W. J. Moscrop and W. J. 
Moscrop, Jun., OUiver, Richmond, Yorkshire, are designed for a farm of 600 
acres, IOC acres pasture and 500 acres arable ; and for the accommodation of 
100 head of cattle, on a farm where 30 calves are supposed to be reared 
annually, and a like number of fat cattle finished off in the boxes. 
There is a cow-house for 10 cows (1 cow to rear 3 calves). Next, 9 boxes 
for the calves while young ; and b yards of 1050 feet superficial each, in 
which to lodge 40 head of young cattle, ages varying from 6 to 18 months, 
when taken up in November; and boxes to fatten off 30 head of cattle at 
from 30 to 36 months old. 
The latter would commence to go off about the beginniug of the year, and 
so make room for the larger calves, after weaning. 
There is also a roomy box for a bull, and a hospital at an extreme corner of 
the buildings for sick animals. 
Stable accommodation is provided for 12 cart-horses in boxes, with food- 
store in centre, and 3 boxes for young horses, &c. There are also 2 stalls 
and 1 box, harness-room, &c., for the saddle and harness horses. 
Pigsties to accommodate from 25 to 40 pigs, and houses for 100 head of 
poultry, with boiliug-house adjacent to both. 
The necessary shedding for carts and implements is also provided, which, 
together with smith's and carpenter's shop, is quite contiguous to the stables, 
and enclosed as a yard. 
The authors hold that for a fann of this extent, in the absence of water- 
power, fixed machinery is in every way preferable to portable, and a fixed 
engine, as will be seen, is placed at the east end of the buildings. 
Adjoining, on the ground-floor, are the corn and straw barns, cut-chaff 
room, and turnip-house. Above are sheaf-barn, mill-room, and store, iu 
which grinding-mill, cake-crusher, &c., are placed. The cake and meal, 
when crushed and ground, fall into bins, and are from thence delivered by 
a shoot to the mixing-room below. 
The chaff-cutter is placed on a stage, and the straw is carried by a web 
direct from the threshing-machine, so that as much as requisite is cut, as 
threshed, and delivered by a shoot to the chaff-room below ; the remainder 
of the straw being deposited in the straw-barn. 
The root-house and chaff-room adjoin, and afford every facility for mixing ; 
meal and crushed cake also being delivered here. 
The granaries have direct communication with the barns, and the corn from 
the finishing machine is delivered there (if required) by hoist. From the 
granary the corn is delivered to carts, by a trap-door in the floor, to the arch- 
way underneath. 
Corn for saddle-horses is delivered to the stable by a shoot from the 
granary. 
Feeding-boxes, as requiring most food, are placed nearest the food-stores 
and straw-barn ; while the stable, which requires few or no roots, is placed 
furthest from it, but yet within a very convenient distance. 
The central gangway commands the whole building, and, with a tramway 
laid to the food-stores, the whole of the cattle can be led with great despatch 
and economy, and all under cover. 
The boxes are so arranged and constructed that the manure from them 
may be filled direct to the carts, and twice handling is not required. The 
access to the yards will also be seen to be all that a iiractical farmer can 
desire. 
