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On  the  Construction  of  Farm- Buildings. 
The  yard-gates  ought  to  be  of  the  best  oak  and  made  very 
strong,  and  not  less  than  5 feet  high. 
The  cost  of  building  this  farm  premises  may  be  thought  exces- 
sively high,  but  the  estimate  is  made  upon  the  understanding 
that  the  very  best  of  materials  are  to  be  used,  as  well  as  the  best 
of  workmanship.  Where  the  bricks  can  be  made  upon  the  farm, 
and  English  fir  used,  the  cost  would  be  much  less  in  the  first 
instance;  but  foreign  timber  would  be  cheaper  in  the  end.  It  is 
intended  to  have  all  the  posts,  door-jambs,  &c.,  which  are  exposed 
to  the  weather,  of  English  oak. 
Specifications  of  Farming  Buildings  for  a Farm  of  300  Acres. 
The  building  to  be  built  with  bricks,  and  covered  with  slates ; roofs, 
&c.,  Memel  timber ; oak  jambs,  posts,  Sic. ; stone  bottoms  to  the  story 
posts  of  lodges  and  sheds. 
All  the  yards  and  buildings  to  be  drained,  and  the  water  carried 
off  by  a common  sewer  into  a reservoir  for  liquid-manure.  The  yards 
to  be  laid  with  a fall  from  each  side  to  the  centre  to  a tank,  with  grating 
thereon. 
The  piggeries  to  be  partitioned  into  folds,  with  paved  floors  ; bull  and 
cow-houses,  and  calves’  pen,  to  be  paved  and  fitted  up  with  stalls  and 
feeding-manger. 
The  sheds  in  cow  and  cattle  yards  to  be  fitted  up  with  feeding-cribs. 
The  story-posts  to  stand  on  stone  bottoms. 
Cart-shed,  story-posts  standing  on  stone  bottoms.  Granary  to  be  made 
over  the  waggon  lodge  in  the  roof,  14  feet  wide. 
Cart-horse  stable  to  be  made  with  six  loose  boxes  in  each  ; to  be  fitted 
up  with  iron  mangers,  rack,  and  water-trough  ; to  be  fed  at  the  head.  The 
stores  to  be  kept  in  corn-house  No.  19,  with  a granary  over  the  same. 
The  riding-stable  to  be  fitted  with  two  stalls,  and  one  loose  box. 
The  barn  to  be  built  with  two  floors ; the  first  floor  to  be  of  brick,  and 
the  second  floor  to  be  boarded  for  threshing  and  dressing  corn,  Ssc. : the 
threshing  to  be  done  by  machinery,  worked  by  steam  or  horse-power. 
Estimated  expense,  1500A 
XVIII. — Farm-Buildings.  By  Thomas  Sturgess. 
The  essential  buildings  of  a farmstead  are  those  which  will  enable 
the  farmer  to  house  and  thresh  his  corn,  convenience  for  the 
storing  of  the  straw,  preservation  of  the  manure,  shelter  for  fat 
cattle,  milching  cows,  farm-horses,  and  other  live  stock  kept  upon 
the  farm  ; also  convenience  for  the  housing  and  preparing  of  the 
various  descriptions  of  food  which  they  consume,  shelter  for  wag- 
gons, carts,  and  other  agricultural  implements  used. 
In  examining  into  the  present  state  and  condition  of  the  farm- 
buildings  of  this  country,  they  are  generally  found  to  be  in  a very 
defective  state  both  as  to  convenient  arrangement  and  quality  ol 
