258  On  the  Construction  of  Farm- Buildings. 
immediately  adjacent  to,  the  dwelling-house.  In  the  plan  referred 
to,  the  offices  for  keeping  and  preparing  the  milk  after  it  has  been 
taken  from  the  cow,  consists  of  a range  of  apartments  adjoining 
to,  and  having  communication  with  the  dwelling-house  from  the 
south  end  ; also  adjoining  to,  and  having  communication  with  the 
cow-house  from  the  east  side  ; and  is  under  the  roof  covering  the 
last-mentioned  office  of  the  farmery. 
The  apartments  comprising  the  dairy  proposed  are  the  scalding- 
room  (4),  15  feet  long  by  12  feet  wide,  communicating  with  the 
dwelling-house,  and  also  with  the  cow-house,  into  the  space 
between  the  ranges  of  stalls  of  which,  by  a descent  of  two  steps, 
should  be  lighted  by  a window  in  the  west  wall,  and  fitted  with 
a boiler  in  the  sputh-east  angle;  the  churning-room  (5),  12  feet 
square,  having  a door  and  window  in  the  west  wall ; the  milk- 
house  (6),  10  feet  long  by  12  wide,  having  a window  in  the  north 
wall;  and  a shed  (7),  in  which  to  expose  the  milk  vessels  and 
utensils  after  having  been  scalded  to  drain  and  sweeten  in  the 
air,  to  be  the  length  of  the  three  apartments  previously  noticed, 
and  6 feet  wide,  covered  by  a continuation  of  the  west  slope  of 
the  roof  of  the  cow-house  and  dairy,  and  which  is  proposed  to  be 
supported  in  front  by  four  cast-iron  pillars.  The  three  apart- 
ments comprising  the  dairy  should  be  9 feet  in  height,  having 
flagged  floors  1 foot  above  that  of  the  middle  passage  of  the  cow- 
house, and  the  division  walls  between  them  one  brick  thick,  with 
doors  of  communication  between  each  other.  The  walls  of  the 
dairy  apartments  should  be  plastered,  and  their  tops  ceiled ; and 
the  milk-house  should  be  furnished  with  shelves,  for  which  pur- 
pose no  material  can  he  better  than  slate. 
Of  the  Calf-house  (for  plan,  vide  Plate  III.,  No.  8). — The 
subject  about  to  be  treated  of  in  the  present  section,  according  to 
the  plan  proposed,  adjoins  part  of  the  cow-house  (3),  the  shed  (2), 
and  the  fodder-house  (1),  on  the  south,  having  doors  of  com- 
munication from  the  cow-house  and  from  the  fodder-house;  and 
it  extends,  including  the  end  walls,  each  1J  brick  thick,  62  feet 
4 inches  in  length,  and  including  the  front  wall,  1 brick  thick,  is 
10  feet  in  breadth.  The  front  wall  is  proposed  to  be  6 feet  high, 
with  a roof  leaning  to  the  south  wall  of  the  cow-house  and  shed, 
and  also  to  the  south  end  wall  of  the  fodder-house,  carried  up  to 
10  feet  high,  at  9 feet  from  the  ground,  or  1 foot  below  the  south 
eave  of  the  cow-house,  from  the  water  tabling  on  the  top  of  the 
south  wall  of  the  shed,  and  on  the  top  of  the  wall  carried  up  at 
the  south  end  of  the  fodder-house.  This  office  may  be  lighted 
and  ventilated  by  means  of  three  glazed  lights  in  cast-iron  pivot 
frames  near  the  highest  part  of  the  roof.  The  floor  should  be 
evenly  paved,  well  drained  from  moisture,  and  fitted  with  pens 
