An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 Book IV. FARMERIES. 469 with threshing-machine driven by wate


An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 Book IV. FARMERIES. 469 with threshing-machine driven by water (c); cattle-sheds (rf); root-rooms and implements, or if preferred, hammels (e) ; stable (/) ; fatting cattle (g) ; cart-shed (/i) ; cattle-sheds for feeding (i) ; riding-horse (k) ; tools (/) ; single men's room or bailiff (m). 2955. As an example of a commodious arrangement for an arable farm managed for a gen- I leman farmer by his superintendant, both resident at the farm {Jig. 448. ),\ve give the follow- ing details. The original design will be found in the account of the Marquess of Stafford's 448 t=3 com -u- -6- nn q n □ n n h n 1 n R IMJ improvements by Mr. Loch; a work which, as it contains a great number of valuable plans and elevations, all of which have been executed, may be profitably consulted by every landed proprietor who contemplates either buildings or repairs, and by every architect, builder, or surveyor, whose practice is at all connected with agriculture or the country. The dwelling-house of the master contains two good sitting-rooms on the parlour floor ; three bed-rooms on the first floor, and attics over them, and over the cellar two kitchen offices. The farmery consists of a cart-shed (a) ; stable ((>) ; riding-horse (c); barn (d) ; mill-shed (e) ; cattle-shed (f) ; steaming-place (g) ; root-house (/;) ; cow- house (t) ; fatting cattle (k) ; intendant's house (/, m, n) ; piggeries (o). The intendant s house is situated about three times its


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