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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 537 promiscuously in a market, agree when put together into a hammel ; and the loss, in consequence, is often considerable. In the neiglibourhood of Haddington, there was a let of excellent hammcls erected about fifteen years ago, but open sheds with large courts are now substituted for them. Well sheltered courts are almost every where employed, in Haddingtonshire, for fattening cattle; but it must be remembered that with us, it is generally a difficult matter to convert straw into manure, from the abundance of it, and the dryness of the climate." The ample details in the specification of this Design will give a very complete idea, to the Architects of other districts, how farm buildings are executed in the first agricultural district in the island ; and they cannot fail to observe the substantial and durable nature of the materials and the workmanship employed. There are two or three minor conveniences and comforts which we could wish to intro- duce ; and that prominent feature, the chimney to the steam-engine, might, we should hope, be i)laced centrally with reference to the range or side to which it belongs. But, whether the shaft of the steam-engine can be placed centrally or not, we sincerely hope that the landed proprietors of Scotland will not sufier their country to be disfigured with the inelegant forms of engine-cliimneys, which have hitherto been erected in those farmeries where steam has been adopted. We have little doubt that it will soon be pre- ferred to either horses or wind, on all large corn farms on every part of the island. Tall engine chimneys, therefore, promise to be as common in the corn districts, as they are now in Lancashire, and we have only to point out the latter as beacons to be avoided. Under the head of Exterior Finishing of Farmeries, in Section III., we shall give some to be imitated. Since it is so difficult to turn straw into manure in East Lothian, we coidd wish to see all that is used for fodder cut into chaft", and mixed with succulent food, salted and watered ; and we could wish also to see the liquid manure collected in tanks, and pumped up daily, or twice a day, and distributed over a covered dunghill, in the manner which has been already described, § 1019. It will, no doubt, be considered presumptuous in us to find fault with any agricultural practice prevalent in East Lothian : let it be recollected, however, that great improvements have, within the last twenty years, taken place even in this district, and that farther advances may be made. The dryness of the atmosphere appears to us a strong argument in favour of covering the dunghills, as well as of collecting liquid manure to moisten them ; and feeding horses and cattle with cut straw and some liquid food, in order, among other advantages, to increase the quantity of liquid manure. It will be observed that several local terms are spelt differently in this specification from what they are in those of Mr. Newall, § 907, Mr. Green, § 979, Mr. Ross, § 1053, and even the Committee of the Highland Society, § 1200. We have deemed it better to give the spelling, in each specification, as we received it, hoping to be able to discover and insert that which is preferable, and also to generalise many of the local terms in the Glossarial Index. Design XXXV. — A Farm House and Farmery at Elcho Castle, Perthshire, adapted for a Farm of Six Ploughs, under the Turnip Husbandry. 1130. The General Appearance is shown in the isometrical view, page 535 ; the ground and chamber plans of the house in figs. 1062 and 1063, and the ground plan of the farmery in fig. 1064. Figs. 1065, 1067, 1068, and 1069 are geometrical elevations. 1062 1063 Ril a4^J iffl'fn i 10 20 31) Ft. 1131. Accommodation. The ground plan of the house, fig. 1062, shows two parlours a a ; a. family bed-room on the same floor, h ; kitchen, c ; wash-house, d; lobby and staircase, e ; pantry, f; coal -house, g ; dairy, h ; and cellar, i. The chamber flooi-, fig- 1063, contains four good bed-rooms, k ; and a servant's bed-room, /. — In the farmery, fig- 1064, a and c are poultry- houses ; h is a boothy, or single men's lodge, with a bed-