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 550 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. foal, d ; straw-barn and dressing-barn, e ; situation of the granary, or outside inclined plane, up which the unthreshed corn is carried to the feeding-board of the threshing- machine, f; spare house, <f ; stable, h ; hay-house, i ; riding-horse stable, k ; poultry-house. /; house for boiling or steaming food, m; two pigsties, n; dung-pit, o; and open court, p ; privy, and place for a dog, q. One pump may be conveniently placed in the boiling- house, and the other in the hay-house. 1174. Remarks. This farmery is supposed to be situated on the side of a public road, near a town. The doors on that account are placed on the inside of the court, with a wall in front eight feet high, that they may be locked at night ; but in other situations this wall will be unnecessary. The accommodation here shown will be found sufficient for most situations. The dressing-barn might answer a {nw feet shorter than it is represented ; and, if the straw-barn should be thought too short, the space thus gained could be thrown into it. It is proposed to make the straw-barn ten feet high to the joists, which would hold a sufficient quantity of straw, and give room for putting it up in bundles for the market, &c. The granary above this will be four feet six inches high from the floor to the top of the wall, which, with six inches of beam-filling, will give