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 514 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. with the business of the farm yard ; and we cannot help being delighted with the im- provements which he has introduced. The circular feeding-house is a new and excellent idea, the whole arrangements of the barn and straw-house are admirable, and, as the author observes, must save a great deal of labour. The inclined plane, and its right and left level elevated branches, for wheeling the manure from the stables into the middle of the cattle courts, without the necessity of opening a gate, is excellent ; as is the idea of the pump and general supply cistern being placed in a house, to protect them from the frost. In a country where flag-stone abounds, long, narrow, liquid manure tanks are, as shown, preferable to circular or square forms covered by arches, on account of their cheapness. On the whole, we strongly recommend the young Architect to make himself master of this Design ui all its details ; because there are several points in it which he may introduce in the very humblest of farmeries, and because most, or all, of them should be included in all extensive ones. Design XXXVI. — A Public House and Farmery ; the Publican beitig, at the same time, a small Farmer and a Butcher. 1149. Accommodation. The general appearance of this public house and farmery is shown in p. 536; the ground plan in fig. 1070; and we have received from the 1070 author, William Thorold, Esq., Architect and Engineer, of Norwich, the following explanatory details : — " The words, ' Good entertainment for man and horse,' " Mr. Thorold observes, " formerly appeai-ed on the sign-board of every country alehouse ;