3868. An anomalous design of a farmery for a hay-farm (fig. 469.), calculated for effect and for inspection from the sitting-room (a, a) contains the following economical buildings:- A poultry-house with granary over (a), a chaise-house with men's room over (b), rabbits (c), tools (d), carts (e), open sheds for carts or other implements (ƒ), sick horse or cow, &c. (g), pigs (h), stable (i), calves (k), cows (1), open passage lighted from above and pump (m), saddle-horse, &c. (n), straw (o), chaff-cutting room (p), handthreshing-machine (9), unthreshed corn (r), loaded carts of hay (s, t), hay-ricks with roof moveable on wheels to protect the hay while binding (u), ponds (v), lawn (w), yard (r). Sitting in the circular room (a, a), the master may look down the light passage which has a wire door, and along the oblique front of the buildings, and see every door

that is opened. He may also, as appears by the elevation (fig. 470.) see the men binding hay under the moveable covers.

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3869. An anomalous design for a corn and stall-feeding-farm (fig. 471.), in which the stacks are built on the tops of the stables, cattle, and cart-sheds (a), may be noticed as

pleasing in effect; but

not likely to be so useful as the more simple plans. The hay, roots, and straw, are stacked in the central circle (b), and very readily supplied to the stable (c), cow-stalls (d), or feeding yards (e). The threshing-machine (ƒ), is driven by water which is supplied by a circuitous route (g), from the pond near the house (h). The elevation (fig. 472.), has a good effect

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when all the stacks are in their places, and untouched; but as they are removed to the barn the appearance of the flat-roofed sheds will not be so consonant to established notions of beauty and neatness.

3870. A farmery for a meadow-farm of 250 acres near London (fig. 473.), may be arranged as follows:- The house may contain a porch, lobby, and stair to chambers and

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cellars (a), parlor (b), bed-room or study (c), pantry (d), kitchen (e), lumber-room (ƒ), business room (g), back kitchen (h), coal cellar, and maid's room over (i), wood-house (k), yard and pump (1), pigs (m), chaise (n), poultry (o), tools and roots, &c. (p), two stalls, and a saddle and harness place (q), harrows and large implements, &c. (r), bailiff's house or men's lodge (s), cows (t), chaff-cutting room, and granary over (u), straw-barn (v), corn-floor (w), unthreshed corn (a), stable and stall for litter (y), loaded or empty carts and implements (z), watering-trough (&, rick-stands (1), bailiff's garden (2), master's garden (3), lawn (4), paddock of old grass (5).

3871. An anomalous design for a turnip-farm of 500 acres (fig. 474.), contains a dwelling-house (a), on an eminence commanding not only the farmery (b), but great part of the farm. It is surrounded by the ricks for shelter (c), and by a pond (d), which drives the threshing-machine (e), and forms a foreground to the distant scenery. There is a large feeding-shed (ƒ), a bailiff's house and garden (g), and the other usual accommodations. The elevation of the feeding sheds and end of the barn looking towards the house is simple and not inelegant. (fig. 116.) Farmeries of this sort are not submitted as examples for general imitation; but merely as sources of ideas to such as have the designing of this species of rural buildings, for employers who have a taste for design and for originality, and who can afford to gratify that taste. It is a poor business, and one which never can procure much applause, when a proprietor of wealth and cultivated mind, erects for his own use the same sort of farmery, or, indeed, any other buildings, as the tenants who support him. In East Lothian, Berwickshire, Northumberland, and on the Marquess of Stafford's estates both in England and Scotland, are some noble examples of substantial, commodious, and even elegant farmeries. (See Gen. Rep. of Scotland, and Loch's Imp. on the Marq. of Stafford's Estates, &c. 8vo. 1819.)

3872. Cottage buildings include a variety of habitations from the farm-house down. wards. On a large estate there will be cottages for tradesmen and mechanics, with and without fields and gardens; others for market-gardeners and nurserymen, surrounded by gardens and orchards; for operative manufacturers; for day laborers; and on the farm lands near the farmeries, for ploughmen and herdsmen. The extent of ground which ought to accompany these cottages must be determined entirely by the demand; the regular laborer and ploughman require the least; and the gardener and tradesman, who keep a horse or horses, and cow, the most.

3873. A cottage fit for a tradesman, mechanic, or bailiff, given in The General Report of Scotland, contains the following accommodations: a porch, lobby, living room, two closets with beds, pantry and dairy, fuel and lumber-place, pig, and garden. The cow is kept at the farmery, if for a bailiff; the poultry over the fuel place, and the bees on stands in the open garden.

3874. A double cottage of only one floor (fig. 475.) contains in each, the kitchen (a), with oven (b), pantry and dairy (c), lobby, (d), two bed-rooms (e, e), entrance door (f), front court-yard (g), pigs (h), necessaries (i). The gardens are at each end, and the cows supposed to be kept at the farmery.

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3875. A cottage on a smaller scale contains the entrance and stair, parlor, bed-room with two good bed-rooms over.