824 
Report of the Judges of Farm Plans, 
''Per Mare per Terram." 
Description by the Author. 
The drawings, &c., to •which this description and estimate refers, are for a 
farm of about 300 acres ; 200 being arable, the remainder grass. 
The chief objects endeavoured to be arrived at are economy of labour in 
the care and feeding of stock, combined with as small an outlay as possible in 
the construction of the buildings. 
Nothing novel can be claimed in the arrangement or construction of the 
buildings, as they are not intended for a model farm where more elaborate 
details would be gone into, but are intended to try and represent a class of 
buildings a landlord could put up, with a few alterations, to adapt them to 
any particular situation. Fault will no doubt be found in horse-gear being 
proposed, and not a portable engine, but that is one of the above alterations, 
as an engine-house might very easily be built on to the barn. The idea in 
not providing for a portable engine is that an extra horse on such a farm as 
that for which accommodation is here provided would be more economical. 
The horse-gear is intended to cut chaff, pulp roots, and pump water; a 
300-gallon tank being provided in a drop loft, which supplies a 20-gallon 
tank placed below in the passage of the barn, the latter being on a level and 
connected with a water trough in the covered yard. A pipe also leads from 
the large cistern to a boiler, along the feeding-passage, with branch pipes to 
every other stall, fitted with taps. The raiuwater-tank is callable of holding 
over 5000 gallons. The barn is calculated as tiled in the specification ; but 
the difference if slated with best Bangor slates, taking into consideration the 
smaller scantlings, would be 2QI. 2s. 6d. An estimate for two Dutch bams, 
capable of holding 80 to 95 tons of straw each, are given, the straw-barn being 
small. 
Bill of Quantities and Detailed Estimate. 
Yards. 
Feet. 
Inches. 
No. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
EXCAVATOU. 
218 
cube 
Dig, part fill-iu and ram-to founda- 
5 
9 
0 
64 
cube 
Dig, part fill-in and ram-to tank, at 
8d 
2 
2 
8 
77J 
cube 
Concrete, rubble 6 parts, lime 2 parts, 
to foundations, at 6s. Gd 
25 
3 
9 
16 
cube 
Eubble filling-iu to mangers, at 
3 
12' 
0 
122^ 
sup. 
Concrete, 4 in. thick, for floors, 3 
parts gravel, 1 part cement, at 
2s. 6d 
15 
6 
3 
302 
sup. 
Concrete, 4 in. under Staflbrd bricks, 
at 2s 
15 
4 
0 
17 
sup. 
Concrete 4 iu. under floor of tank, 
at 2s 
1 
14 
0 
246 
sup. 
Marl and cinder-ash floors, 4 in. 
thick, 3 parts marl, 2 parts cinder- 
16 
8 
0 
£84 
19 
8 
