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 514 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. A place for poultry is supposed to be formed over the cow-house, i ; and entered by an outside stair at r. 1027. Constructimi. The walls are of stone, and the roof slated. All the doorways and window-openings have facings, sills, and lintels of dressed stone, and all the doors are hung by strap hinges on hooks leaded into the stone ; and they shut into rebates in the jambs. The feeding-houses have ventilators in the roof ; one upright tube, about a foot square, with a cover to protect it from the rain, being placed in the ridge over each stand of four cattle. Fig. 1028 is a section across the mill-shed and barn, on the line A B ; and fig. 1029 is an elevation and two sections on the line C D. In the latter, the stable window, s, is shown with the upper part of glass and the lower part of spars for 1029 the admission of air, with an inside shutter for occasional use. Tlie stable-loft windows over are shown lufTer-boarded. 1028. Remarks. This Design has been sent us through our esteemed friend and valuable correspondent Mr. Gorrie, by Mr. James Chalmers, land surs'eyor, and land steward at Muithly, in Perthshire. Mr. Chalmers is evidently a good Architect as well as land-surveyor, the Design being well arranged, and the elevation architectural. Design XXVIII. — A Farmery for a particular Situation, suitable for Eighty Acres of arable Land, and Three Hundred Acres of Pasture, in the Carse of Goiorie. 1029. This Design is calculated for a steep declivity ; so much so, that the floor of the granary and straw-loft, which is on a level with the ground on one side of the range, is ten feet above it on the other. The general appearance is shown in the isometrical view, fig. 1031. 1030. The Accommodations are seen in the plan, fig. 1032, in which a is a cart-shed with a granary over ; h, the threshing-mill course ; c, the dressing-barn ; d, a stable ; e, a feeding-house for cattle ; /, a cow-house ; g, a poultry-house ; h, a boiling-house ; i i, ploughmen's cottages, each sixteen feet by seventeen feet, and two stories high ; k, a privy ; 1 1, cattle-sheds ; m m, open yards for cattle ; n, pigsty of the farmer ; o o, pig- sties of the two cottagers ; and pp, the gardens of the cottagers ; each containing twelve falls, or about one thirteenth of an acre. 1031. Construction. The walls are of the common stone of the country, and the roofs slated. Fig. 1030 is a section inqn taken on the line A B, which shows the steepness of the situ- ation. 1032. Remarks. This Design has been sent us by Mr. Gorrie, accompanied by the following remarks : — " The dung from the stables, and cow and cattle houses, is thrown into the cattle-yard across the road, by which means it becomes mixed with the litter of the yards in which young cattle are kept during winter and spring, and enclosed in summer and autimin. The advantage offered by this form of farmery, when the