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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 499 six inches on the side. The panels are filled in with studwork or quartering, and covered with weatherboarding or plaster. 1004. General Estimate. The actual cost, in the neighbourhood of Paris, was £; that for the departments of France, £'92. A bay may be added, in the neighbourhood of Paris, for £42 ; and in the departments, for £25. 1005. Remarks. The great economy of this construction must be obvious. This economy results fi-om the four cross walls being used on both sides ; and from two short lines of eaves serving for the whole structure. To be con- vinced of this, it is only necessary to ima- gine the threshing- floor, corn-bay, stable, cow-house, the two implement-houses, the two poultry-places, and the pigsty, arranged as separate buildings round a square or parallelogram farm-yard, as in Britain. Add to this, the great advantage of the accumulation of heat during winter, and the exclusion of heat during summer. The steepness of the roof not only renders that part of the structure more durable, by preventing it from ever being soaked with moisture, but it actually reflects off the heat more powerfully in summer, and receives it more effectually, because at a larger angle, during winter. If eaves-gutters are considered necessary, they are only required at the two ends, and even the tubes for conducting the water from these gutters to the ground are as short as it is possible to conceive them to be. We have examined all the French and German works on Rural Architecture, and though we have found much to approve of in Lasteyrie's Rural Architecture and the Landes Verschdnerung, published periodically at jNIunich, which, through the kindness of our friend Count Hazzi, we receive regularly, we have found nothing at all worthy of being put in competition with the Architecture Rurale of Morel- Vinde. We say this with the more confidence, having seen most, or all (for we cannot bear all the circumstances exactly in our mind), of his designs in actual execution, on his own beautiful estate, at Celle, in 1828. — In a wine or cider country, or on a farm where potatoes were raised in great quantities, a cellar might be made both under the threshing-floor and the bay for unthreshed corn. The two porches convey an idea of shelter and comfort, and, in fact, produce both in every building to which they are judiciously attached. We particularly recommend this Design to our American and Australian readers, and, indeed, to those of all countries where timber is the principal building material. Design XXIV. — A Farm House and Farmery suitable for a Farm of from Three Hun- dred to Five Hundred Acres in France. 1006. T/ie object of the following Design, which is taken from the work of Morcl- Vinde,is to show what is considered by one of the first agriculturists in France a model farm