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17, Wood-yard, shaded by three elm trees. 
18 18, Calf-pens. 19, Cow-house. 20, Tool-house. 
21, Piggeries. 
22, 23, 24, Places for fattening poultry, on Mowbray’s plan, not, as 
usual, in coops. Between this and 25, is a privy for the head gardener. 
25, Place for meat for the pigs, which is passed through a shoot to 26. 
26, Two tanks sunk in the ground, covered with hinged flaps, the upper 
edges of which lap under the plate above, so as to shoot off* the rain, for 
souring the food intended for the pigs. One tank, which is much 
smaller than the other, is used chiefly for milk and meal for the fatten- 
ing pigs, and sows with pigs ; and the other for the wash and other 
refuse from the house, for the store pigs, which, with the refuse from 
the garden, apple-loft, etc., amply supplies the store pigs and sows, 
without any purchased food, except when they have pigs sucking. 
The good effect of the fermentation or souring is accounted for by 
chemists, who have found that it ruptures the ultimate particles of the 
meal or other food ; a subject treated in detail in the Quarterly Jour- 
nal of Agriculture , vol. vii. p. 445. According to the doctrine there 
laid down, the globules of meal, or farinaceous matter of the roots and 
seeds of plants, lie closely compacted together, within membranes so 
exquisitely thin and transparent that their texture is scarcely to be 
discerned with the most powerful microscope. Each farinaceous par- 
ticle is, therefore, considered as enveloped in a vesicle, which it is 
necessary to burst, in order to allow the soluble or nutritious part to 
escape. This bursting is effected by boiling, or other modes of cook- 
ery ; and also, to a certain extent, by the stomach, when too much food 
is not taken at a time ; but it is also effected by the heat and decom- 
position produced by fermentation ; and, hence, fermented food, like 
food which has been cooked, is more easily digested than uncooked or 
unfermented food. Plants are nourished by the ultimate particles of 
manure in the same way that animals are nourished by the ultimate 
particles of food ; and hence fermentation is as essential to the dung- 
hill as cookery is to food. The young gardener, as well as the young 
farmer, may learn from this the vast importance of fermentation, in 
preparing the food both for plants and animals. 
27, Furnace and boiler, for boiling dogs’ meat, heating pitch, etc. ; placed 
in this distant and concealed spot to prevent risk from fire when pitch 
