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On  the  Construction  of  Farm- Buildings. 
yards  on  the  east  side  of  the  farm-yards.  On  entering  the  court- 
yard on  the  right  hand  are  the  piggeries.  No.  1. 
No.  2,  a house  for  bull. 
No.  3,  cow-house  or  milking-house;  a door  to  the  east  from 
the  farm-house. 
No.  4 is  a calves’  pen. 
No.  5,  cow-yard  with  open  shed. 
No.  6,  yard  for  young  cattle,  or  for  grazing,  with  open  sheds. 
No.  7,  7,  liay-liouse  and  straw-house. 
No.  8,  9,  coal-house  and  engine-house. 
No.  10,  threshing-house,  with  floor  above  for  threshing-machine 
and  straw-shakers,  the  grain  falling  into  a dressing-machine 
below.  And  here  it  may  be  proper  to  say  a few  words  upon  this 
important  part  of  the  farm-buildings. 
In  this  improving  age  it  would  be  unwise  to  recommend  the 
building  of  large  and  expensive  barns,  the  more  especially  as 
steam-power  is  getting  into  such  general  use.  I can  speak  prac- 
tically upon  this  point,  as  I am  now  using  two  steam-engines 
upon  my  farm.  One  a stationary  engine,  which,  besides  driving 
a threshing  and  dressing  machine,  works  an  oil-mill,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  making  linseed  cakes  for  my  cattle,  and  also  grinds  the 
inferior  or  tail-corn  for  them  ; the  other  is  a portable  engine, 
which  only  drives  a threshing-machine  and  straw-shaker  at  an 
off  barn  in  the  centre  of  300  acres  of  arable  land,  where  60  head 
of  cattle  are  annually  grazed  in  the  yards  upon  Swedish  turnips, 
mangold,  and  linseed  cakes. 
The  corn  is  threshed  for  one-third  less  than  what  it  would  cost 
were  it  done  by  horse-power,  and  the  horses  can  be  more  profit- 
ably employed  upon  the  farm  at  other  work : the  saving  is  very 
great,  the  cost  of  moving,  threshing,  and  dressing  a stack  of 
mown  wheat  by  steam-engine  being  lO^rf.  per  quarter;  and  the 
same  by  horse-power,  2s.  Qd.  per  quarter. 
The  expense  of  moving  in  and  threshing  and  dressing  a stack 
of  mown  wheat,  containing  90  coombs,  by  the  stationary  engine, 
is  5 id.  per  coomb  of  4 bushels,  as  may  be  seen  by  the  statement 
here  given. 
Steam-power. 
Cost  of  moving  a stack  of  mown  wheat,  threshing  and  dressing  GO  coombs : — 
2 Men,  1 day  at  stack  ..... 
£. 
0 
s. 
3 
d. 
4 
2 Men,  1 day  loading 
0 
3 
4 
1 Man,  1 day  raking  loads,  binding,  &c.  . 
0 
1 
8 
1 Man  to  feed  machine 
. 0 
2 
6 
1 Man  attending  to  corn  .... 
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1 
8 
1 Man  unloading  wheat  .... 
0 
1 
8 
2 Men  putting  sheaves  to  feeder 
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3 
4 
Carried  forward  . 
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