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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 4t)3 Ft. 100 SO 60 4U M 10 Ft. scullery, i ; dairy, k ; coal-house, I ; gig-house, with poultry-house and dovecot over, m ; kitchen court, n ; ash-pit, o ; servants' pri^'j', p ; best privy, q ; pig-houses, r ; steaming-house, s ; dung-pit, t ; cattle-shed and court, u ; cattle-house, v ; cow-house, tc ; green-food house, x ; barn, y ; cart-house, z ; hay-house, a ; stable for five horses, b' ; stack-yard, c ; kitchen-garden, d' ; back entrance to the farm-yard, e' ; plantation, f; lawn varied with groups of shrubs and flowers, g' ; and the approach-road to the house, h'. Fig. 937 is a plan of the second floor of the house, and of such parts of the offices as are carried two stories high ; in which a a aa are four good bed-rooms ; b bb, three large closets ; c, the servants' room ; d, turkey-house ; e, hen-house ; and /, granary. 905. Construction. The walls, Uke those of almost all the buildings in Dumfriesshire, are of reddish sandstone, and the roofs of blue slate. Fig. 938 is an elevation of the south or entrance front ; fig. 939, an elevation of the east front ; fig. 940, an elevation of the north side of the house, and kitchen offices, from the farm-yard; fig. 941, a general elevation, from the west side. The racks and mangers of the stables in this Design are somewhat differently constructed from those in general use. Each stall is five feet wide, one corner of which to the extent of two feet is occupied by a manger two feet square, and one foot deep; and the remaining three feet by a deeper manger of the same width, which reaches to within one foot of the floor, and in which the clover,