Practical Agriculture. 
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Fixed engines and fixed threshing-machines are less numerous Fi-^ed 
i England than in Scotland, where thev are common : indeed, P°'^*^' 
i England, only a minor proportion of the occupations are 
J jvidcd with barns of sufficient magnitude for storing straw as 
vll as holding the sheaf-corn for a day's threshing. The more 
jevalent arrangement is to thresh out-of-doors by a portable 
«gine and machine; while in some districts it is customary 
t save time and labour in harvest, and to minimise the risk of 
lis by fire, by stacking and threshing a portion of the wheat 
id barley in the fields or at an " off" yard. Except in cases 
Mere horse-power or a semi-fixed steam-engine of low power 
j employed for the purpose, the portable engine, when not en- 
{Ered in threshing, is placed so as to drive the food-preparing 
iichinery in the farm-buildings. Steam-ploughing engines 
; also used in the same way. 
Among the most extensive as well as admirably designed and Noted 
( npletely furnished farmsteads of which English husbandry can '^^^^''^ 
list are those of Mrs. J. Gerard Leigh, at Luton Hoo, in 
] dfordshire (this being by far the largest in the kingdom) ; 
] rd Bateman's Uphampton Farm, at Shobdon, in Herefordshire ; 
Henry Dash wood's Northbrook Farm, at Kirtlington, in 
<:fordshire ; Mr. J. C. Garth's Haines Hill Farm, near Twy- 
fd, in Berkshire; the Marquis of Bath's Longleat Farm, in 
Wiltshire; Netherhampton Farm, on the estate of the Earl of 
Imbroke and Montgomery; Sir Edward C. Kerrison's Brome 
Idl Farm, Eye, in Suffolk ; Mr. Goodman's farm at Thorney, 
( mbridgeshire, on the Duke of Bedford's estate ; Mr. J. Hegan's 
fm at Dawpool, in Cheshire ; Mr. John V/ells's Sancton Hill 
]rm, near Booth Ferry, Yorkshire; Walls Court Homestead, 
ivr Bristol; Colonel Dunn's premises and machinery near 
Iingerford, in Berkshire; Lord Portman's, at West Lam brook, 
i Somersetshire ; those of the Earl of Radnor, at Coleshill, in 
Irkshire ; of the late Sir John Shelley, at Maresfield, in Sussex : 
Brassey's farmstead near Malpas, in Cheshire ; that of the 
1 3 Mr. E. Holland, at Dumbleton, near Evesham, in Worcester- 
s re ; Captain Cust's Kenwick Park Farm, near Ellesmere, in 
^ropshire; Mr. Reginald Corbet's, at Adderley Park, in 
tropshire ; Mr. Richard Oakley's premises at Laurance End, 
1 Herefordshire ; Kenwick Farm on Earl Brownlow's estate in 
J^ropshire; the Honourable Mark Rolle's Bagmore Farm, in 
1 vonshire ; Mr. Robert Overman's farmstead at Egmere, in 
Iirfolk, on the Earl of Leicester's estate ; Mr. W. Byrch's, at 
Vetham Hall, in Norfolk ; Sir W. Jones's, at Cranmer Hall, 
1 Norfolk. And numerous examples are to be found also on 
t estates of the Earl of Yarborough and Mr. Chaplin, M.P., 
