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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 50? Os 1012 ^ current of air. For the same purpose, and for light, there are four windoTrs to the threshing-floor, and one window at each end of both stable and cow-house, as may be fl3 1013 C3 seen in the plan. The partition which separates the poultry-house from the stables is of trellis-work or lufFer-boarding, in order that the heat may enter the former, for the 1014 1015 1016 1017 benefit of such hens as are laying eggs. The threshing-floor is 1 2 feet wide and 50 feet long, which allows a considerable bay for unthreshed sheaves in the middle, and space for two threshers at each of the ends. Over the spaces for the two threshers at the ends, may be floorings of joists for recei'ing sheaves. The middle of the threshing-floor, the two floors over the stable and the cow-house, exclusive of the spaces over the threshers, will hold two stacks of unthreshed corn, each containing 3000 sheaves (see § 815). The two porches at the two extremities of the threshing-floor are for protecting the latter from the weather ; and, at top, one of them contains a pigeon-house for wild or common pigeons, and the other a cot for stockdoves. Morel- Vinde concludes by observing, that, if any one will take the trouble of examining this Design with the most severe attention, he will find that it leaves little to desire, unless the farm were of an extraordinary size. We mav add, that in tliis case the chief addition that would be necessary would be a