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On  the  Construction  of  Farm-Buildings. 
coarse  meal  and  bruise  linseed.  I may  mention  here,  in  con- 
nexion with  the  desirableness  of  either  obtaining  water  power  or 
a steam-engine,  that  l am  personally  acquainted  with  many 
farmers  using  their  500  to  1000  bushels  of  coarse  meal  and  100 
bushels  of  linseed  in  a winter  for  the  feeding  of  live  stock. 
Another  consideration  which  is  of  some  importance  in  con- 
nexion with  the  situation,  and  that  is — is  there  a good  public  road 
running  through  or  bounding  the  farm  in  any  part  ? If  there 
should,  it  ought  to  be  taken  into  consideration,  as  the  same  is  a 
very  important  addendum  for  the  convenience  of  carting  manure, 
lime,  and  marketing.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that,  although  a 
central  situation  is  desirable,  it  is  frequently  necessary  to  sacrifice 
the  same  in  order  to  secure  other  important  advantages. 
There  are  also  some  other  minor  points  which  ought  to  be 
attended  to  when  the  situation  is  fixed  upon  and  the  levels  admit 
of  them,  and  these  are — can  you  arrange  your  barn  so  that  the 
ground  where  the  sheaf-hole  is  situate  for  getting  in  the  corn  may 
be  pretty  near  the  level  of  its  sill,  thus  affording  an  important 
advantage  in  the  getting  in  of  the  unthreshed  corn?  Another,  of 
the  same  character,  is  with  respect  to  the  getting  in  of  the  turnips. 
Another  is  the  laying  down  of  a pipe-conduit  from  tanks  in  yards 
to  some  convenient  distance  from  the  buildings  according  as  the 
levels  of  the  situation  allow  of  it,  where  the  urine-water  might 
be  let  off  by  a tap  direct  into  the  urine-cart,  thus  saving  an  im- 
mense deal  of  trouble  in  the  pumping  of  the  same.  These  are, 
although  minor  points,  important  adjuncts  to  the  economising  of 
labour  about  a farmstead,  and  should  not  by  any  means,  where 
practicable,  be  lost  sight  of. 
The  foregoing  seem  to  me  to  be  the  principal  considerations 
which  ought  to  be  a guide  in  the  selection  of  a proper  situation, 
also  in  making  the  best  of  one  when  selected,  where  it  is  pro- 
posed to  rear  an  entire  new  set  of  buildings. 
I will  now  consider,  in  the  next  place,  the  arrangement  of  the 
farm  buildings.  Inlaying  out  the  different  farm-buildingsapplicable 
to  a mixed  system  of  tillage  and  the  feeding  of  live  stock  in  houses, 
as  practised  in  this  country,  I have  endeavoured  to  get  them  into 
as  small  and  convenient  a space  as  the  quantity  of  buildings  re- 
quired admitted  of,  also  to  provide  for  the  buildings,  particularly 
for  the  fold-yards,  a good  southern  aspect,  and  the  very  great 
acquisition  of  convenient  foddering  and  littering  without  going  out 
into  the  open  yard  from  the  straw-barn  to  the  different  beast- 
houses,  sheds,  and  stables. 
In  order  to  get  a clearer  idea  of  the  general  arrangement  of  the 
farm-buildings,  as  to  the  advantages  which  the  situation  of  each 
class  of  buildings  possesses,  I will  consider  them  more  minutely 
with  respect  to  their  several  good  properties,  beginning  with  the 
