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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 4'1'9 906 =1 isometrical view ; 8 is a stable for six horses, with a hay-loft over ; 9 is a chaff or fodder bay at the end of the stable ; 10 is a hen-house fitted up with roosting-poles and laying- boxes three feet from the floor ; the poultry go out and in at a hatch-hole, three feet above the surface of the yard, by means of a short ladder fixed at a. The entrance to the potato-house, which is under 14, is at II ; 12 is a duck-house; and 13 a goose or turkey house : both these houses, together with the hen-house, are under a lean-to roof ; and the potato-house is under the straw-house and barn, 14 and 27 ; 15 is a straw- house ; 16, store pigsties, the ends of the feeding-troughs shown at 6 6 ; 17 are fattening pigsties ; 1 8, a meal-house, with five bins, c, for meal and dry food of different kinds, with a large hog-tub, d, for liquid food, and showing the ends of three feeding-troughs at e e e ; 19 is a cow-house, with calf-pens at one end, f, and a hay-bin or cupboard in one corner, g ; 20 is a cattle-shed, with a rack and manger; 21 is a waggon and cart lodge^ the entrances to which are outside of the yard ; 22 is the principal gate of entrance, made of oak, nine feet wide with five bars, and a strong diagonal brace ; 23 is a circular open shed or hovel, for sheltering cattle while eating, with a rack under ; 24 is the rick- yard ; 25 is the gate from the fields ; 26, small doors of the barns, with locks ; the large doors bolting in the inside in a manner which will be mentioned hereafter ; 27, wheat barn, consisting of a threshing-floor, li, and two bays, one at each side, i i ; 28 is the barley-barn, consisting of two bays on one side, ^, and one bay on the other, I, and a threshing-floor between, tti ; 29 is the oat-barn, with a threshing-floor, n, a double bay for unthreshed corn on one side, o, and a single one on the other, /; ; 30 is a water-trough for supplying the horses and cattle with drink, filled from the pump in the back kitchen by means of a spout through the wall; 31 is a light open fence or palisade; 32 is a fence of oak pales ; 33, a hedge ; 34, a lawn, with groups of shrubs and flowers ; 35, a kitchen-garden ; 36, a best pri%'y ; 37, a privy for the female servants ; 38, wood-stack ; (these last three being represented some yards nearer the house than they really are, in order to bring them within the compass of the plate) ; 39, orchard ; 40, privy for the men-servants; and 41, hollow basin sloping on every side, to receive the waters of the yard and the dunghill. 889. Construction. The dwelling-house is built of brick, and is covered with plain tUes ; all the other buildings are of timber in frames filled in with studwork, and covered outside with weather-boarding ; their roofs are of plain tUes, with the exception