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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 557 in front, which, however may, and indeed ought to be, orna- mented, and with an orchard and rick-yard behind, what object can harmonise better with the sentiments called forth by the appearance of a simple tract of cultivated country ? 1 1 95. General Estimate. To execute this plan, we are informed, will require, exclu- sive of the carriage of mate- rials and the prime cost of stones, about £164, covered with slates ; if covered with tiles, about i: 130. Design XL VI. — A Farmery for a Cottage Farm of 30 Acres, with Remarks showing how it may be extended so as to serve for a Farm of 50, 80, or 100 Acres. 1196. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in tig. 1093, and the ground plan in fig. 1092. In the latter 1092 is seen a potato-house, a ; stable, with a bay at one end for hay, b ; cart-shed, c ; barn, d ; part of the barn to be lofted at the height of ten feet from the ground, e ; house for turnips with a pump, /; cow-house, g ; calf- crib, h ; poultry-house, i ; pig- sties, k, with yards, I ; and dung- pit, with liquid manure tank under, m, 1197. Remarks. This plan resembles the preceding one, but the different apartments are somewhat larger. The same arrangement, with a small additional increase, will serve for a farm of fifty acres, and double the extent of barn and stable room, with the same acconmiodation in every other respect, might serve for a farm ot ^^^^s«, <^ 1093 eighty or a hundred acres, under a course of alternate grass and corn. In this case the turnip- 1^ ilh. ^'^ ^^^j^ IF '"N,. house, f, would serve as a second cart-shed, and there might be a lean-to formed by the farmer himself, placed against the stable and potato-house wall, as a shelter-shed for cattle, and there might be a fold-yard in front of it, formed of bush faggots in Mr. Taylor's manner, § 1038 1 1 98. Estimate. This plan, exclusive of the carriage of materials, and prime cost of stones, will cost about ^^190, covered with slates; covered with tiles, it will cost about £150. 1199. General Estimate applicable to the Nine preceding Designs. On calculating the cubio contents, and on comparing these with the actual estimates, it appears that the average price per cubic foot, exclusive of the carriage of materials and the prime cost ot stones, is, when the buildings are covered with slates, S^rf, and when they are covered with tiles, 2d. 1200. General Outlines of a Specification to the Nine preceding Designs.- — Dig- ging. The trenches for the foundations to be 2 feet below the surface of the floors, or more, if necessary, to obtain a good solid foundation. 1201. Mason's Work. The foundations to be laid with flat-bedded stones laid in regular courses, breaking joint alternately, and to be taken in by regular scarcements, as shown in the sections. The whole area of the dressing-barn and low granary floors to be laid Ft. 10