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 546 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. is a stable for six horses, t, an hospital for sick horses, w; a wheelwright's or carpenter's shop, V, with a store-room over it ; a steaming-room, w ; a reservoir for liquid manure, x, with a pump, y ; four inner pig-cots, z, with outer pig-cots and two poultry-houses, aa ; with a poultry-yard, hh. The stack-yard is in the situation, cc, and it contains sixty feet in length of hay-sheds, twenty feet wide, and twenty-two feet high, in one or more lengths, as may be most convenient. There are three calf-cots, cM, and sheds may be continued at ee, with a wall at jff, so as to form an additional straw or fold yard to that in the centre of the farmery marked gg. 1153. Remarks. — Tliis Design has been made, at our request, by Alexander Ogilvio, Esq., of the Mere, near Knutsford, Cheshire. Mr. Ogilvie was a pupil of the late Dr. Coventry, and has since had extensive practice both as a land steward and as a farmer. We saw his crops and his dairy when we visited him at Mere, in July, 1 830, and found them greatly superior to any in the neighbourhood. His dairy practice was also of an improved description ; and, at our request, he has furnished us with plans and elevations of his improved cheese-press, which we shall give under the head of Farm House Furniture. The plan of the farmery was accompanied by the following observations: — " This plan is something near what I should think a house and set of offices ought to be on a farm of from 300 to 350 acres, in Cheshire : but I am sorry to say that the poor tenants of this district are obliged to put up with buildings of a very different description; partly owing to the landlords not liking to see a gentleman farmer in their neighbourhood, and partly owing to the class of men who, in this country, generally have the charge of landed property being incompetent to judge of the best system to be adopted for the ultimate and permanent benefit of the estate. There are several things of minor im- portance that have been omitted in this Design ; such as a coal-yard, &c. ; but these will not affect the general merits or demerits of the plan. If I occupied such a farm myself, with similar out-buildings, I should certainly have a threshing-machine, and that one to be moved by a steam-engine of about six-horse power, by which I could thresh my corn, cut my hay, straw, turnips, &c., and steam my potatoes and other articles. The machine would stand in the one corn-bay, on a loft or platform raised eight feet from the ground, with a winnowing-machine, &c., under it; then the threshing-bay, shown in the plan, would be the place where the straw would be deposited when thrown from the shaker of the machine, and the other corn-bay would become the straw-house. Behind the cow-houses there might be a straw-yard, if required, with sheds for young cattle and young horses during the winter months. This is shown by the dotted lines ee and ff," Design XXXVIII. — A Mixed Stock Farm, in a high (Jtilly') Country, employing only One Pair of Horses. 1 1 54. Accommodation. In the ground plan, fig. 1072, are shown a potato-hoase, a ; spare- house, or place applicable for different purposes, b ; house for young cattle, c ; cow-house, rf; =] □ ci 1^ 1072 '■:i XTZ i*— Tiah r- e _s 1 - l^ 1 » a . |lM lt<ttl | larger cow-house, e ; small cow-house, f; corn-barn, g ; part of the barn to be floored and lofted, h ; house for holding wool, to be floored with boards, i ; hay-house, k ; stable, I ; cart- shed, ni ; poultry-house, w ; two sheep-sheds, o a ; two pigsties, p ; sheep-yard, q ; and yard for dung, r. 1155. Construction. The walls are of stone, and the roof is slated. The surface on which this farmery stands is supposed to have an inclination to one point, to which all