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various buildings necessary for the occupation and proper working of a farm are collectively known in England as the Homestead, and in Scotland as the Onstead or Steading. Throughout this book we shall use the word Homestead, so that there may be no confusion of terms.

Accommodation necessary—The usual farm buildings include accommodation for the farmer and his family, for the labourers employed on the land, for the various kinds of live-stock, for manipulating grain-crops, for storing, preparing, and mixing food for cattle, and for implements and machinery of all kinds, etc.

The requirements in these respects are very different to-day from what they were a few years ago, the improvements in farm machinery and in preparing food for stock, and also the greater numbers of stock fed, having necessitated a complete change in the plans and arrangement of farm buildings.

The accommodation necessary varies in size and arrangement according to the extent of the farm, the nature of the principal crops, and the system of