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PLANS OF FARM BUILDINGS. 
Report by the Judges of the Competition. 
In offering prizes for Plans of Farm Buildings, the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England have, in a practical way, 
emphasised the importance which attaches to the erection of 
buildings best adapted to the requirements of the farmer, 
having due regard to economy of construction. 
The previous occasion on which prizes were offered by the 
Society was in connection with the London International 
Exhibition of 1879, when separate prizes were offered for 
(1) Arable Farms above 300 acres ; (2) Arable Farms not 
exceeding 300 acres ; (3) Dairy Farms above 100 acres ; and 
(4) Dairy Farms not exceeding 100 acres. Sixty-eight sets of 
plans were then sent in from thirty-nine competitors. Mr. J. 
Bailey Denton, in reporting on these plans, explained that the 
Judges considered that they would be failing in their duty if 
they awarded a prize to a design which might present admirable 
features of arrangement, but which could not be executed at a 
reasonable cost — such a cost as a Landowner would be justified 
in expending, and which the Enclosure Commissioners, who 
were the protectors of reversionary interests, would allow to 
be charged on entailed estates. 
In 1879, the Judges prescribed a limit of expenditure, but 
it was found that none of the plans which provided superior 
accommodation with modern requirements were so designed 
that they could be executed within that limit, and consequently 
they were unable to recommend the award of any of the prizes. 
Upon the present occasion, prizes were — through the 
generosity of Sir Richard Cooper, Bart. — offered for Plans of 
Farm Buildings suitable for a mixed farm of not less than 
300 and not more than 400 acres in extent : — 
First Prize, 507. (or Society's Gold Medal). 
Second Prize, 25 1. 
Third Prize, 15Z. 
Fourth Prize, 10Z. 
VOL. 69. 
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