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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IS VARIOUS STYLES. 497 988 and the other part is enclosed by a fence of pales, o, p, as a fold for the wintering of cattle. The general appearance of this Design is shown in the isometrical view, fig. 988. 999. Construction. The walls are chiefly of the slate-stone of the country, a cold and disagseeable stone for cottages and human dwellings, but less injurious for buildings for cattle and for sheds. The roofs are of Baltic fir, covered with slates ; a covering cold in winter, and too warm in summer ; and therefore, however fit for sheds, not to be commended for stables without lofts, or for cattle-houses. It is true that the prevailing prejudice, in the west of Scotland, is in favour of slates indiscriminately, from their durability ; but even if thatch should be found less durable, and this is not always the case with the thatch composed of chips, shavings, and spray, or heath, we consider the latter as decidedly preferable for all buildings in which animals are to be lodged. But, in Galloway, improvement is not yet so general, that long heath and broom cannot be found ; and these, even the natives will allow, are nearly as durable as any slate or tile whatever ; or, at all events, they are sufl^ciently so for constructions which are undergoing the progi-essive improvements and changes which those of agri- culture constantly are. 1000. Remarks. This Design has been furnished us by one of the most enlightened agri- culturists in the west of Scotland, and therefore it may be considered as a fair specimen of a farmery for the agriculture of that district. It would be easy to add a farm house ; but we have given so many good plans of this description of dwelling, that we consider it unnecessary to add one on the present occasion. No arrangement for the collection of liquid manure is shown ; because the farmers of Galloway, as those of most other districts of Scotland, have not yet arrived at that degree of scientific refinement to be fully aware of the advantages to be obtained by this important part of a perfect farmery. Design XXIII. — A Faniery for a small French Farm, as given hy Morel- Finde. 1001. T7ie requisite Farm Buildings for asnudl Farm, our author observes, are the same as for a large one, almost the only difference being in their magnitude. The plan ex- hibited in the following figures is therefore to be considered as conveying the rudimental idea of all farmeries whatever, where the objects of cultivation are those common to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. The same constructions, which in the annexed plans are only a width of two bays of ten feet each, by forty feet in length, might be ex- tended to many bays of the same size. The following is the general type of this building: — l.The stable and cow-house are in the same space without separation ; because by this arrangement, on small farms where there are few or no servants and not much litter, the animals are more easily looked after ; the litter from tlie horses is with little trouble thrown under the cows, and the dimg of both, being mixed, produces a better manure. 2. The poultry-house is placed alongside of the cow-house, and only separated from it by an open grating in order to admit the heat of the former to the latter. S. The barn is suflicicntly large for containing one rick of 3000 sheaves, with additional