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or tar is boiled ; and, when meat is boiled for dogs, to prevent the 
smell from reaching the garden. The reason why it is found necessa- 
ry to have a boiler for tar is, that, most of the farm-buildings and 
garden-offices being of wood, it is found conducive to their preservation 
occasionally to coat them with tar heated to its boiling point. 
28, Open shed for lumber. 
29, Dog-kennel ; adjoining which is a privy for the under gardeners. 
SO, Hay-barn. 31, Lean-to for straw. 
32 32, Places for loaded hay-carts to unload, or to remain in when loaded 
during the night, in order to be ready to cart to town or to market 
early in the morning. 
33, House for lumber, wood, etc. 34, Duck-house. 
35 35, Houses for geese and turkeys. 
36, Open shed for carts and farm implements. 
37, Pond, surrounded by rockwork and quince trees. 
38, House for a spring-cart. 39, Coal-house for Mr. Pratt. 
40 40, Places for young chickens. 41, Yard to chicken-houses. 
42. Hatching-house for hens, containing boxes, each 1 ft. square within, 
with an opening in front 7 in. wide and 7 in. high, the top being arched, 
so that the sides of the opening are only 5 in. high. 
43, Lobby to Mr. Pratt’s house. 44, His kitchen. 
45, Living-room. 
46, Oven, opening to 47. 
47, Brewhouse, bakehouse, and scullery, containing a copper for brew- 
ing, another for the dairy utensils, and a third for washing besides the 
oven already mentioned. 
48, Dairy. The milk dishes are of white earthenware ; zinc having 
been tried, but having been found not to throw up the cream so speedily 
and effectively as had been promised. One zinc dish, with handles, 
is used for clotted cream, which is regularly made during the whole of 
the fruit season, and occasionally for dinner parties, for preserved 
tarts, etc. We observed here small tin cases for sending eggs and 
butter to town. The butter, wrapped in leaves, or a butter cloth is 
placed in the bottom of a tin box about a foot square, so as to fill the 
box completely ; and another tin box is placed over it, the inner box 
resting on a rebate, to prevent its crushing the butter below it. In 
this latter box, the eggs are packed in bran, after which the cover of 
