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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. S99 821 floors of open work on which the corn may be borne in separate layers. A small nuiize-barn on this construction, and supported on posts six feet from the ground, has been erected by M. Mathieu de Dombasle, at Rovillc, near Nancy. 783. A Store Place for Pi(/s' Food is a most useful part of a large farmery, which never can be properly conducted without keeping pigs. It ought to be a dry well-aired room, near the pig- geries, and should be of considerable size, so as to have two tubs or tanks for liquid food, the one being always filling while the other was emptying, after the contents had undergone proper fer- mentation ; and three or four divisions, for different kinds of meal and other dry food. Tlie situation should be close to the pigsty, so as to minimise the trouble of supplying their troughs. 784. Storehottses for Hair, Wool, and Feathers should generally be formed in dry airy lofts ; and, as nothing is more offensive or unwholesome than the decomposition of these materials, no one, as before observed (§ 711), ought to be allowed to sleep, or to work for any length of time, in such places. 785. The Storehouses for the Machinery and Implements of the Farmery include the cart and roller shed, the plough and harrow house, the house for hand implements, the harness-room, the chaise-house, and the place for miscellaneous articles. Of several of these it is unnecessary to say any thing. 786. Storehouses for portable Machinery and Implements should be placed apart from the houses for live stock ; and they should not, if it can be avoided, open into a yard in which cattle or swine are at large. The sheds for carts and waggons are generally lefl open in front ; and, when this is the case, they should face the east, in preference to the west, from which driving rains are to be expected ; and the north, rather than the south, because the intense heat of the sun is apt to warp the wood, and occasion a shrinking in the joints. Houses for smaller tools should have closed doors, and luffer- boarded windows for better ventilation, and their floors should always be perfectly dry and free from litter. In general small implements should be hung up, or supported at some distance from the floor, that they may be kept drier and more airy ; and those of iron should be placed horizontally rather than vertically ; because it is found that in the latter position they become in time magnetised, and more apt to rust and decay at their extremities. 787. A Harness-room, for harness not in use, should also be a dry airy loft, or other- wise a room on the ground floor, with a fireplace to admit of occasionally drying and ventilating it by artificial heat. 788. The Working-houses of the Farmery, besides the barn already mentioned, include the slaughter-house ; the carpenter's shop ; the smith's shop and shoeing-house ; and a room for pickling wheat, cutting potatoes, carrying on various miscellaneous works, &c. 789. A Slaughter-house is necessary in a farmery of considerable extent, as it will always be found profitable for a farmer to kill as much of the meat used on his farm as possible. This part of the farmery should face the north : it should be well ventilated, but without admitting light, because darkness tends to exclude the flies. The floor should be paved, and have a sink and trap communicating with a manure tank. 790. ^ Room for a Smithy, and another for a Carpenter's Shop, are required in very extensive farmeries ; and they should generally be placed so as to open into a small yard devoted to the different materials used by the carpenter and smith, and to machines and implements undergoing repair, &c. 791. A Room of All-viork is necessary in every farmery, whether small or large, and it may generally adjoin the slaughter-house. In it there should be a boiler for preparing drinks for sick cattle, or for supplying hot water for other purposes. Wheat may be pickled or brined, and other seeds prepared, in this room ; harness cleaned, tools shai-pened on a grindstone, chaff or roots cut by machinery, malt ground, &c. 792. Bee-houses are seldom requisite, where bees are kept, unless for the purpose of preventing the hives from being stolen ; and this Huish and other writers propose to do by jhainLng tliem to the bee-stand. A bee-house is very conveniently formed in the end or side of any building, or in a wall, facing the south-east, east, or south. There should be a recess, or a projection formed so as to give the effect of one ; and in this recess there should be shelves of^ stone or boards, eighteen inches broad, and from eighteen inches to