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 management pursued. The same farm which under one system maintains a certain number of sheep and cattle, and requires the labour of so many horses, may, perhaps, under a different system of husbandry, support two or three times the quantity of stock, and increase the demand proportionately for horse-labour.

Each system of husbandry, too, will give prominence to certain departments of the homestead. Thus in a dairy farm, the cow-house and the dairy offices are the chief feature. On a fattening farm, prominence must be given to boxes and covered yards, and to the arrangements for preparing food. On a mixed farm, which generally partakes of all systems, the buildings must be more numerous, and suited in some respects to all purposes.

The buildings and offices necessary for a perfect homestead on a mixed husbandry farm, will consist of—

We may classify farms under the respective heads of arable, stock, and dairy, and as many sub-divisions as we please. But sub-divisions are not as a rule sharply distinguished from each other, and merely