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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 551 five feet from the floor to the intersections of tlie cupples (rafters). If these offices were not on the side of a public road, it would be an improvement to make the boiling-house and poultry-house face the south. 1175. General Estimate. This Design, exclusive of the carriage of materials, and the prime cost of stones, will cost, in the soutli of Scotland, about £'550 ; and, if covered with tiles instead of slates, the expense will not exceed £400. Dividing these sums I)_v the number of cubic feet, we have, in the first case, 2^d. per foot, and, in the second, ifr/. per foot, which may be considered the guess prices for this description of buildings in Scotland. Design XL. — A Farmenj for a Farm of 500 Acres, kept in a Rotation of Corn Crops and Pasture, producing Turnips, and employed partly in breeding, and partly in feeding Stock. 1176. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 1079, shows an overseer's house, with a kitchen, a ; two box-beds, b b, partitioning off a light closet, or bed-room : there is besides, a small parlour, c. Adjoining this are a gig- house and harness-room, d; cow-house, e ; house for hay or turnips, /; mare and foal house, g ; house for a bull, /(servants' cow-house, i ; calf-house, k ; straw-barn, / ; threshing-machinery, ?h ; dressing-barn, n ; gangway, or inclined plane, from the rick-yard to the floor for unthreshed corn, o ; under- granary, p, with a granary over ; spare house, q j hay- house, r ; stables, s s ; poul- try-house and yard, t t ; pigsties, u ; stable for riding liorses, and saddle-room, v V ; cart-shed, w ; carpenter's shop, X ; foal-house, y ; potato-house, z; house for boiling and steaming food, a ; smithy, 6' ; open yard, in which no litter or ma- jv::" nure is placed, c'; shelter- ji sheds, and fold-yards, with i! cribs in the latter, d' ; ■ I ;^ paved gutter for collecting ii and conveying away the i;„.. surface water, e' ; place for storing turnips,/" ; and sup- posed line of fence, g'. 1177. Remarks. This is a very complete plan, though we could wish some more accommodation to the over- seer's house. The separa- tion of those houses which require no litter into a square by themselves, c , is very judicious. The poultry-house here, t, ought to have a communication with the stable, for the sake of heat. The pigsties we would remove, and add the space they stand on to the poultry-yard. Places for pigs might be formed in