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 40G COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Cottam and Hallcn. It consists of cast-iron pillars fig. 826, two feet six inches high, which cost 8s. 6d. each. Wrought-iron rods, a, six feet eight inches long, which cost IO5. each ; secondary rods, h, six feet eight inches long, which cost 85. 4d. each ; and small rods, c, five feet six inches long, which cost Is- 5d. each. The method of fixing the principal rods is shown in fig. 827 ; that of placing on them the secondary rods, b, in fig. 828 ; and that of fixing the small rods on these last in fig. 829. A square yard 825 826 829 827 ^ [Zgl IIH 828 of this description of rick stand costs in all 12s., which may be considered cheap for an article which, if heated, and afterwards rubbed over with oil or tar, previously to being put up, will last many years. 814. WaistelVs circular rick stand, fig. 830, is formed entirely of stone, and consists of two concentric circular walls ; the outer wall is twenty 830 inches high, to the top of the projecting flags ; at about half its height, four grates of cast iron, about six inches square, and half an inch thick, are placed in openings left through the external walls, at equal distances from each other, to admit air. The bars of the grates are a quarter of an inch broad, and a quarter of an inch distant from each other, which is suflSciently close to prevent the entrance of mice. Stands thus constructed are con- sidered, by those who have tried them, to be less expensive, and more effective, than on any other plan that lias been invented. The air that passes through these four grates, and through the openings in the internal walls, will circulate freely under the rick ; and, if a chimney be carried up the middle of the rick to its top, the current of air that will pass up through it will carry off' the heat and moisture which might otherwise injure, and even spoil, such corn as was rather too moist when carried." (IFfiisteU's Besii/ns, &c. p. 101.) These rick-stands seem to have been invented by Mr. Waistell's nephews, who built the outside wall twenty inches thick, the inside wall eighteen inches thick, and left a distance between the two walls of eighteen inches. Across this space hedge-stakes or faggots were laid, sufficiently long to support the sheaves. The funnel in the centre, when necessary, need have no