COTTAGES. 
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particularly in the low situations so frequent in this, 
and many other counties, is certainly of such conse¬ 
quence, as to deserve the most serious attention.” 
Respecting the local out buildings, necessary for the 
manufacture of fruit into liquor; particulars are de¬ 
tailed under the article Orchards. 
In the west and south of the county stall feeding is 
sometimes resorted to, and feeding sheds are of course 
attached to the principal occupation. Plate I. is a 
sketch of a feeding shed belonging to - Smith, 
esq. of Erdiston, in the west of the county, upon a 
scale of an inch to ten feet, it contains room for four¬ 
teen head of cattle four feet asunder, being fifty-six 
feet in length and twenty-four in breadth ; the front 
is faced with paled gates to keep it airy j the beast are 
each tied by means of an iron ring and chain, to an up¬ 
right pole fixed in a sill; before them are a range of 
stone troughs built solid, two to each beast, the one for 
food the other for water, with a roomy gangway before 
them, to contain and deal out their food from ; if the 
whole were divided into stalls it would doubtless be an 
improvement. 
3. COTTAGES. 
The cottages, analogous to the farm buildings, are 
of different ages of construction, and those in different 
parts of the county occupied by farming labourers, 
have, in general, nothing particular to recommend 
them; in the ancient villages and common field pa¬ 
rishes, they often consist of timber and plaster walls 
covered with thatch, and are merely a shelter from tha 
3 c weather. 
