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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 519 line, c. Between the Inndle and the faggots is placed the fodder, n-hicli serves the triple purpose of food, shelter, and protection to the sheep from the thorns of the faggots. 10;?9. 7Vu' Norfolk System of managing Swine has nothing in it which recpiires any variation of construction from the form of pigsties in use in other districts. 1040. A Substitute for Rickstands, the invention of the late ingenious and excellent Robert Paul (see his humane rat trai>, Ganl. Mag. vol. vi. p. 584.), Mr. Taylor recommends as being c<jual for ingenuity and utility to any of the more costly inventions that have been published, Iiaving practised it himself for several years. " At harvest time the stack, as soon as up (every thing depends on this), is cut under a little at bottom; and immecUately a coat of mortar, or clay and horse-dung mixed, is applied i-ound the bottom to the height of about two feet and a half; tlic stack, when finished, presenting the appearance of fig. 10;;9; in which a is the upper line of the composition spread round the foot of the stack. If the soil on which the stack is placed be soft and sandy, it may perhaps be advisable to form a bottom projecting from the stack, as shown at h, cove; ed with the same composition as the space between a and the ground ; but this need not occupy the whole area of the stack bottom, but only a circle round its edges, formed somewhat like a quoit, as at c. It must not be forgotten that the complete success of this plan depends on its being executed as soon as the stack is built ; an hour must not be lost, other- wise vermin may get possession. Too much caution cannot be taken to suflFer no straw, ladder, nor stays, to remain near the stack, antl in con tact with it ; for by them mice may get in, and if once there, they are not to be got out ; for they do not, like rats, leave the stack for drink, not requiring it : they breed fast, and do a vast deal more harm to wheat than rats. This plan of Mr. Paul's is adopted by Mr. Coke at Holkham. The expense is only a few shillings for cv«n a large stack." Perhaps to some it may appear a deviation from Architecture to enter into the uses of structures to the extent which we have done here, and in other instances : but we are decidedly of a different opinion ; feeling confident, from experience, that no real improvement will ever be made in any class of buildings, with the uses of which the Architect is not thoroughly acquainted. lO.'^g / Design XXX. — A Farmery for a Farm of 300 Acres of arable Land, and 500 of Pasture, in the West Highlands. 1041. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in the isometrical view fig. 1040, and the ground plan in fig. 1041. The latter shows a pigsty, 18 feet and a half by 12 feet, a ; a room for the corn-chest and horse -harness, b ; a working-horse stable 16 feet wide, and 48 feet and a half long, for ten horses, c ; a riding-horse stable, with two