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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 483 967 13331 w— {— m I n2Ul 1^1 111 S (I 10 iO 30 -10 50 00 70 fO go 100 U-1— i— 4 r— f-H H-4-H ;— a number are put together ; and those for the beeves being smallest, because they arc understood to be fattening. The yard for the stirks, 38, is also the yard for the stables. There are two hay-rooms, 7 7 ; and two stables for ten horses each, 8 8 ; a poultry-house, 9; pigsty, 10; calf-house, II ; foddering-bay for cow-house, 12; cow-house for ten cows, 13 ; yard to the cow-house, 14; vacant house, to be used as a slaughter-house, or for pickling wheat, or for various other purposes with a dovecot over, 15; store pigsty, 16 ; house for a bidl, 17 ; house for a stallion, 18 ; feeding-house for cows, 20 ; and yard for cow-house, 21. There are a boiling-house, which also serves as a wash-house for the family, 22 ; a coal or wood-house, 23 ; stable for a riding-horse, 24 ; an hospital, 25 ; a carpenter's shop, 26 ; a tool-house, 27 ; cart-shed, 28 ; and six cottages for ploughrnen, 29. Belonging to the cottages there are a place for such rubbish as cannot be turned into manure for the cottage gardens, 30 ; a privy for the women and children, 31 ; and a privy for the men and boys, 32. To complete the establishment, there are a blacksmith's shop, 33 ; and a cow-house for the six cows of the cottagers, 34. Each cottage has a garden in the enclosure marked 35. To supply all the animals with water, there are pumps at n n n, besides a pump in the kitchen court, and one at o, for the cottagers. There are a broad passage or roadway between those offices which are unconnected with working, feeding, or store animals, and the farm yard, 36 ; a yard for store turnips, 37 ; one for stirks, and for the stables, 38 ; two for cattle feeding on straw, 39 ; and an extensive rick- yard, 40. 972. Remarks. This Design has been sent us by one of the most extensive farmers in Northumberland, an enlightened and liberal-minded man, and a much valued con- tributor to our Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Gardener's Magazine, and Magazine of Natural History, accompanied by the following remarks : — " This Design is sent to show you what we in Northumberland consider some of the essentials in the arrangement of a farm steading. It scarcely ever happens that a whole homestead has to be built at once ; and the nature of the ground, or of the farm roads, frequently causes a variety of modi- fications in the different buildings here exhibited. In explaining what these essentials are, it may be necessary to state the reasons why the barn, in fig. 967, is made thirty feet wide, instead of sixteen or eighteen feet, which is the usual width. This is done that there may be sufficient space for a stack of unthreshed corn, and also two bays for threshed corn, in order to supply work for the men and horses, in weather so bad, that corn would be injured in carrying it from the rick-yard to the barn ; and to contain a large quantity of threshed corn, when there may not be time, on account of out of doors work, to clean and measure it up, and raise it into the granary. The straw-house, 4, may