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Plans of Farm Buildings. 
Number of Stock . — On the five-course shift there would be for winter food 
say — 
50 — 60 acres of meadow hay. 
37 „ „ clover hay. 
74 „ ., oat and barley straw. 
32 „ ,, roots (5 acres being used for 
potatoes and vetches). 
37 „ „ wheat straw for litter, &c. 
The above, with the proper proportion of cake and meal necessary to bring 
the rations up to the proper albuminoid ratio, should provide sufficient for — 
12 horses. 
72 dairy cows. 
25 rearing calves. 
25 heifers, 6 to 12 months old. 
25 „ 18 to 24 „ „ 
1 or 2 bulls. 
Taken at 
end of the 
summer. 
Pigs, &c., with a varying number of wethers to pick up the 
remnants of grass and clover, and feed off on surplus 
roots on the laud. 
Accommodation provided . — In a dairy herd for sale of milk it is assumed 
that the cows and heifers would be timed to calve regularly the year round, the 
heifers calving mostly from May to August and the cows which are to remain 
in the herd from August to May, the heifer calves from the latter being reared 
mostly in the winter, so that there would be an average of about eight cows 
constantly dry for calving, and as the latter are usually better in covered yards 
or boxes during the dry periods, the following accommodation is provided : — 
Stalls for sixty-four cows constantly in milk, in a central position on 
the south side. . 
Boxes for eight dried-off cows. 
{ Twelve heifers, 6 to 9 months old. 
„ „ 6 to 12 „ „ 
„ „ 18 to 21 „ „ 
„ „ 21 to 24 „ 
Stalls for eleven horses, horse-box, harness room, forming the western wing. 
Five boxes for calves, bull-box, two other boxes, and tool house, forming 
the eastern wing. 
Food mixing room, with chaff cutting, corn grinding, and cake crushing 
chamber over, forming the central portion of the north side, with milk cooling 
room, cart and waggon shed with granary over to the right of the centre, and 
root store, engine room, market and milk cart shed with straw and litter store 
over, and accommodation for water supply tank of 2,100 gallons capacity on 
the left. 
Three pig breeding styes and four others, with adjacent boiling house for 
preparation of food for pigs and calves, hospital in an isolated but sheltered 
position, forming with the implement shed, which faces north, a separate block 
to the east of the main block, from which it is separated by a road, 24 ft. wide. 
Covered manure pit sufficient for 300 loads, and liquid manure tank for 
15,000 gallons on the south of the main block, opposite the cowsheds. 
The position of the house is indicated on the block plan, and a ground floor 
plan is also submitted as a suitable one for a tenant farmer of a farm of the 
class adopted. As no details of the house are asked for, its construction has 
not been dealt with in the specification, nor its cost included in the estimate 
of cost. There would be six bedrooms on the first floor, with linen room, fruit 
room, and bath and w.c., and two attics. 
In conjunction with the house a dairy, churning room, and utensil washing 
room are shown ; these would be required for dealing with the surplus milk 
there might be at times. 
