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 Gjl COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 1294 supply trough, which should communicate with other troughs in different yards, accord- ing to circumstances, as already explained, §824 and § 1143. All farmeries whatever, ought, in our opinion, to have a turret clock, § 505, placed in some conspicuous situation fronting the kitchen-court and the farm house, to regulate the hours of going to and returning from labour. Very good turret clocks may be had for £10 each, without the addition of a bell, and surely £"10 in this way will pay the farmer better than the same sum laid out on a pocket watch. In large farmeries, to the turret clock ought to be added a bell to strike the hour ; and this bell may be so hung as to serve for a bell to ring at the different times for going to and returning from laboui-. We have shown such a clock and bell in our own Design, § 1221, but we have not added them to the plans and elevations which have been sent to us by others, because these have, for the most partf been executed in different parts of the country without them. As much will depend on the accuracy of clocks of this kind, we consider it wise policy to procure them from some clockmaker in the neighbourhood, who may contract for wind- ing them up, and examining them once a week, at so much a year, in order that they may be always kept in correct time. Whether there be a clock or not, there ought always to be a vane fixed on some lofty and airy part of the farm buildings, in order to show the direction of tlie wind ; and no farmer who can afford it ought to be wdthout a barometer, measuring-rods, and a measuring-chain. There is also such a thing as an index to ploughs, made by our most ingenious correspondent, Mr. Wilkie of Uddingstone, near Glasgow, one of the greatest improvers of the plough and the brake, or cultivator, of the day. The plough index shows how much ground the plough has gone over in a day, and consequently how much it has ploughed ; but this, and similar instruments we can only recommend to amateurs, preferring in all cases the labour dictated by a sense of justice, duty, and good-will, to that obtained by constant watching and espionnage. When the relative duties of masters and servants are clearly understood by both parties, DO eye-watching, measuring, or instruments of this kind, can ever be wanting ; and farm labour, like most other kinds of labour, will come in time to be let by the job. For the hinges of farm-yard gates, those of Collinge are so decidedly preferable to all others, that all who can afford them ought to have them. (See Aleck. Mag-, vol. xiv. p. 392.) As a fixed rat-trap for farm-yards, we know of none superior to that invented by Paul of Starston, and alluded to by Mr. Taylor, § 1040. A great number of other fixtures, fittings-up, and furniture, belonging to or connected with farmeries, might be men- tioned, but they will all be found described or figured in our Enct/. of Agr. We trust we have made such a selection, in this work, as to attain the end we proposed in the com- mencement of this section ; viz., that of showing the necessity of Architects studying the uses of all the buildings which they are employed to design.