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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 543 51 roods 6 yards of slatework, at 75s 190 : 0:0 728 feet superficial of lead ridges, picns, and flanks, at Is 36 : 8:0 149 yards of sleepers in flooring in low barn, at 5s. 6d 40 : 19 : 6 511 yards of joisting in granaries and stable lofts, at 6s. 6d. 161 : 1:6 390 feet cubic for safe lintels (inside lintels) and beams, at 3s 58 : 10 : 1523 feet lineal for skirting in granary and cow barn, at 4d 8 : 14 : 4 140 feet superficial of weather-boards in ventilating the byres, at 6d. 3 : 10 : 108 yards of plain doors, with 3 bars each, at 3s. 6d. 18 : 18 : O 192 feet superficial of luffer board windows, at 6d 4 : 16 : 126 feet superficial in straw-yard gates, at 6rf. 3: 3:0 24 feet cubic in frames of hung gates, at 3s. 3d 3 : 18 : O 4 pulley chains and weights 2 : 5:0 36 feet cubic in beams at cattle heads, at 3s. 3d. 5:17:0 32 stakes for binding cattle, at Is. 6d 2 : 8:0 50 feet cubic of trevis posts, at 3s. 3d. 8 : 2:6 693 feet superficial of trevis boards, at 6d 17 : 6:6 222 feet superficial of racks, at 4d 3 : 14 : O 1 85 feet superficial of mangers, at 6rf 4: 12 : 6 36 pairs of crooks and bands for doors, at 5d. 9 : 0:0 3 pairs of cross-tailed hinges, at 2s. 6d. : 7:6 22 stock locks, at 2s. 6d 2. 5:0 8 sliding bolts of a large size, at 2s. 6d. 1 : 0:0 9 ditto of a smaller size, at 2s O: 18 : O 45 feet superficial of three glazed windows, at 2s. 3d. 5 : 1:3 175 feet superficial of stair, at 6d. 4 : 7:6 46 yards of division walls in the poultry-house, piggery, and necessary, at 2$ 4 : 12 : 153 yards of plaster in granaries, at 5d 3 : 3:4 46 feet cubic of anchor beams and posts in cart-shed at 3s 6 : 18 : O ^1478 : 3 : 9 1148. Hemarks. This Design was procured us by our much esteemed friend Mr. Gorrie, who informs us that it is built exactly on the model of one which obtained a premium for its author from the Highland Society of Scotland. " The farm of Elcho, where the above farmery stands," Mr. Gorrie remarks, " is partly clay and partly black land, and may be considered as a fair medium average of Carse of Gowrie farms, as to size, soil, and mode of cropping. INIany of the best farms in the Carse of Gowrie contain a proportion of black land, which admits of turnips being raised for feeding. On Elcho, and such Carse farms, the whole is under tillage ; clover, standing only one year in the course, admiting of little pasturage. On black lands, a pair of horses with a plough are equal to the labour of 40 acres ; 6 ploughs with 1 2 horses, and a few supernumerary, are equal to the working of 240 acres. On farms wholly clay, 8 ploughs are necessary for the same extent, under the same rotation of cropping ; and, on such farms, feeding-byres and additional stabling would be requisite. In other respects the plan of Elcho farmery would be suitable, holding out many advantages. Several mills go by water near the northern banks of the Carse, and this element is available near the river Tay. Elcho is situated near the west end of the Carse of Gowrie, and on the south side of the Tay." To us this Design appears decidedly the most perfect of upwards of a hundred which have been sent us from different parts of the country, and from which we have chosen those given in the present section. Its excellence evidently depends on two things ; first, on the Architect being a thinking and ingenious man, really intent on carrying improvement into every department of his profession ; and, secondly, on his kn-^iving thoroughly the uses of a farm yard. He is, or appears to us to be, among the builders of farmeries, what Mr. Fowler of London is among the builders of public markets, — an Architect of reason, and not a mere follower of precedents ; a man, in short, anxious to do something more than leave his art exactly where he found it. No Architect can improve the arrangement of a building of which he does not thoroughly understand the use ; for which reason, in all our Designs, we have endeavoured to show the uses of aU their different parts ; and we have also enlarged on this subject when treating of Fundamental Principles and Model Designs, in a manner which, in a work professedly devoted to Architecture, must, no doubt, have surprised many. This we have done, because we are convinced that the knowledge of the uses of any building constitutes the essential foundation of all architectural improvements in it, beyond that of mere design and taste ; which, it must be remembered, are to an edifice only what dress is to a man, not the man himself. In perusing Mr. Mackenzie's description of his plan, we find in every sentence evidence of his intimate acquaintance