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 534} COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. are to be fixed to the inside of the front wall of tlie cart-stable, opposite the openings of the ventilators, with shifting boards, to slide and close them as may be required. 1120. Beams. Two strong Meniel planks will be required in the engine-house, to be built into the walls, and to be 9 feet long and 12 inches by 5 inches on the sides, for fixing part of the machinery. 1121. Plaster-work. The working-horse stable, granaries, corn-barn, and mili-loft to be finished with one coat of plaster on the walls ; and the corn-barn, mill-loft, and granaries to have a skirting of Roman cement 8 inches round the floors. 1 1 22. Slaters' Work. The roofs to be covered with the best dark blue slate, from ]Mr. Bell's quarry near Dunkeld ; to have a sufficiency of cover, to be well shouldered in haired linae (the lower part of each row bedded in lime) ; and to be nailed on with nails at 12 lbs. per thousand, well steeped in linseed oil when in a heated state (to prevept, or at least diminish, oxidation); the slates to be all close-mitred (when two planes meet against a diagonal line, they are said to be mitred) in the angles of the flanks. 1123. The Ridge to be covered with lead 12 inches broad, and weighing 5 lbs. per su- pei-ficial foot ; the piens (hips) with lead 10 inches broad, and 5lbs. per superficial foot; and the flanks with lead 8 inches broad, and 5 lbs. per superficial foot, to be all properly dressed down to the slates, and firmly nailed to the wood battens. 1124. Description of Timber. The timber for the roofing, joisting, sarking, soles, lintels, sleepers, gates, windows, trivess-boarding, racks and mangers, beams, and sole and top trees, feeding-troughs, &e., to be all of the best Memel timber, and all the flooring and doors, &c., to be of drawn (selected) battens. 1 1 25. Feeding-troughs. The front of the feeding-troughs, in the open courts, to have a plank of wood 9 inches by 3 inches set on edge ; and to have a post every 10 feet 4 inches by 3 inches, and put 2 inches into a stone in the bottom, and fixed at top with a long strong iron bat (stud) fixed into the stone sole, and a large screw-nut on the outside of the posts. The planks to be all fixed to the posts, with two iron screw-bolts into each. 1126. The Tradesman to furnish the whole of the material and workmanship, as par- ticularised in the foregoing specification. Also the sea carriage of the slates, which must be shipped to the harbour nearest Greendykes, and Mr. C. (the tenant) will furnish the whole of the land carriage. 1127. The whole Work, of every description and kind, must be finished in the most substantial and workmanlike manner, and be liable at all times to the inspection of the proprietor, or Mr. C, or any other person they may choose to appoint for that purpose. The carpenter to ftirnish all the centring and moulds for the mason-work. 1128. Estimate. The actual cost of this building, exclusive of the old materials, and the expense of carriage, was about ^"'2000 ; but it is estimated that if all the materials had been new, and the carriage had been included, the total amount would have been ^8000; which, at 6 per cent, would have been equal to an addition of ^^180 a year to the rent of the farm. The expense of the farm house is not included in either of the above sums ; but as that for such a farmery would cost neaily ^700, this, at 6 per cent, would give at least ^£"200 a year of additional rent, or 12s. an acre. The total number of cubic feet in the farmery, including court and fence walls, is 208,600 ; which gives 2d. per cubic foot as the guess price for estimating buildings of this description in East Lothian. 1129. Remarks. This Design was procured for us by our much valued contributor, Patrick ShirrefF, Esq., of IMungoswells, near Haddington, well known as one of the most scientific farmers in Scotland, as a specimen of one of the best farmeries in East Lothian. It was designed by Swinton, Esq., Architect, Haddington; and built, under his superintendence, at Greendykes, for David Anderson, Esq., of St. Germains. It will be observed that, considering its extent, the courts or fold-yards are fewer in number, and smaller in size, than those of the Northumberland Designs ; and that there are none of these courts which are entitled to the appellation of hammels or fold yards. Hannnels, indeed, Mr. ShirrefF informs us, are out of repute in East Lothian ; that is, ^vhat are called hammels in Berwickshire, which diflTer from those of Northumberland in being much smaller. " My idea of a hammel," says IIr. ShirrefF, " is a range of shed-build- ings divided by parallel partitions fi-om ten to twenty feet asunder, and projecting beyond the building, so as to form courts two or three times the size of the space included within the building. Such hammels, within long narrow open courts, have gone out of use in Haddingtonshire, and in Scotland generally ; and justly so, on account of the expense of littering them, supplying them with food, and removing from these long narrow spaces the accumulated manure. To a farmer who fattens short-horned cattle, so tame that several of them may be put together in a very small space, hammels may be of use ; but where, as with us, young active cattle from the Highlands and other northern districts are put up to feed, it is often a month or more before only two or three cattle, bought