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 t)06 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 1392, Vnritms 1279 Filtings-itp for Piggeries have been shown in the miscellaneous tor farmeries ; and in the way of furniture, there are < numerous iron troughs, both for sties and open yards. ^ Fig. 1281, which is twenty-six inches in diameter, and costs 26s., is well adapted for open straw- yards. Fig. 1282 is a section of this trough on a larger scale. There are sheet-iron pails, exceedingly useful for car- rying out pigs' food, and for various fannerj' purposes, which cost from 4s. to 7s. each ; and which, when heated nearly red hot, and immediately afterwards rubbed over with oil or grease of any kind, will last many years, without requiring paint. 1393. For Sheep-houses there are various descriptions of racks and mangers, but little that is peculiar. For 1280 the open air there is a covered iron rack, fig. 1283, with a trough below, formed wholly of iron, six feet long, which costs, by retail, in London, £4. 1394. Of the FiUi7igs-np of Babbit-houses, Poxiltry-houses, and Pigeon-houses scarcely any thing requires to be added to what will be found in § 769 to § 771. The side walls of pigeon-houses are fitted up with holes nine inches square, with a shelf fi-om four to six inches wide in 1284 front ; the material used being either wood, slate, brick, or stone, according to convenience. When a pigeon-house is formed chiefly in the roof of any building, the holes or boxes may depend from the roof, like a reversed stair, as we have seen in fig. 1019, § 1020. There are iron hutclies for rabbits, and even small iron rabbit troughs, such as fig. 1284, which is fourteen inches long, four inches wide, three inches deep, and costs 2s. 6d. 1395. The Fittings-tip of the Barn, when there is a threshing-machine, embrace a variety of considerations. When the machine simply beats out the corn, and separates it