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 448 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. stalls, in which the fastening rods, h, are more distinctly seen : i is the elevation of the manger ; k, the partition between the manger and the foddering-passage ; and I, the top of the side waU. The stalls for every two Ayrshire cows are five feet long from the manger to the gutter, and five feet and a half wide from partition to partition. The manger is one foot and a half wide, and the gutter behind one foot two inches. Each separation partition is a flag-stone four feet and a half long, three feet and a half broad, and six inches thick, let into the ground, to the depth of a foot. 887. Remarks. This Design, by Mr. Newall, which was also executed under his superintendence, on the Duke of I3uccleugh's estate, affords a very good specimen of a breeding and feeding farmery, where the produce is chiefly consmned in feeding cows for their milk to rear calves, but partly also in fattening cattle for the butcher. The wool-loft bears evidence that sheep form a part of the live stock ; and, from the number of stalls for horses, it may be concluded that about 500 acres are annually under the plough. Design V. — A Farm House and Farmery for a Farm of 1 50 Acres of Arable and Pas- ture Land, in Buckinghamshire. 888. Accommodation. Fig. 905 shows the general appearance of the whole ; and in fig. 906 the ground plan is exhibited, containing a parlour, 1, with a cellar under it, into which the beer is let from the back kitchen by a jiipc, and which is lighted by a window on the garden side : this parlour has a bed-room and attics over it. The front door and stairs are shown at 2 ; the front kitchen at ;5, having a glass door into the garden, and containing the door to tlie cellar and pantry, with dry cupboai-ds for groce- ries, &c., and bed-rooms and attics over ; 4 is a pantry under a lean-to, the floor of which is two feet under that of the kitchen ; the back kitchen, 5, has two coppers, a large oven, a well and pump, and a sink, with men's bed-room over, and stairs to the same ; the dairy, R, is three feet below the floor of the back kitchen. The pantry, oven, and dairy are all under a lean-to roof. There is a wood and coal l)ouse, with a granary over, 7 ; the granary being entered by a swing step-ladder from the yard, as seen in the