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ground for the crops, and in another building the machines for harvesting 
crops. The stalls for horses and cattle are arranged quite differently from 
ours in New York. The buildings are rather sheds than barns, being one 
story and divided into compartments, each having an open arch-way leading 
into an inclosure of the yard. One or two horses occupy each compartment, 
where they have liberty to be either under cover or in the little division of 
the yard adjoining the stall or box, which is fenced with iron railings. The 
cattle stalls are arranged iu the same way. Each stall has feeding boxes and 
a tank of water in the same range, and in front of which there is abroad 
alley on a level with the feed box, where persons in charge can deliver the 
food, or pass down and see that all is right. Every part of the yards and 
buildings has stone pavements and floors, with gutters for conducting off* the 
liquid manures, so that there shall be no waste. Straw is used exclusively 
for bedding, or to be tramped up for manure. In one of the stalls were some 
fine specimens of cattle from India. 
THE ROYAL DIARY. 
The dairy buildings stand apart, and are at some distance from the farm 
buildings. The dairy house is a beautiful structure of brick, with cupalo and 
pointed roof; its outward appearance having a pleasing effect. The interior, 
however, is beyond question all that is neat and tasteful in dairy decorations. 
The floor, the walks, and the ceiling are of biscuit tile, fashioned after the 
most graceful designs. The pans for holding the milk are of white porcelain, 
with a heavy line of gilt around the edge. They are elliptical in shape, with 
a nose or scallop at one end for emptying the milk. They stand upon broad, 
white marble slabs highly polished. The windows are of stained glass, and 
on each side of the room are fountains of china, arranged with unique figures 
and graceful devices. Tiny jets of water spin up from these and fall into the 
china basins with a musical ripple. The ceiling has open spaces arranged to 
represent mosaic work, and there are three compartments between the ceil¬ 
ing and the roof so as to secure perfect ventilation. All about the sides of 
the room are medallion heads of the Royal family elegantly pictured in china, 
and the'whole reminds one of the charming descriptions of fairy life which 
he read in childhood. 
BUTTER MAKING AND IMPLEMENTS AT THE ROYAL DAIRY. 
It was three o’clock and the milkers were bringing in the milk, which is 
strained in an adjoining room. It is then placed upon the marble slabs, and 
the cream is taken off* when the milk has stood twenty-four hours. Iu 
twelve hours after it is skimmed again. 
The cream is churned when forty-eight hours old, the churning being per¬ 
formed in an adjoining room. The churn is of tin, barrel-shaped, and re¬ 
volving. It has compartments at each end for hot or bold water, so that the 
temperature can be regulated without mingling water with the cream. The 
