. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ^^ ? D ~E~LT fU LJT 4163. ^<f an example of a farmery to be managed by a bailiff, we give that of Skeibo,also in Sutlierland. The farm consists of 450 acres, the greater part taken from aheathery waste. It contains a suitable house for the grieve or bailiff, and attached to(lie office is a threshing machine, combining a corn or meal-mill. Its acc
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ^^ ? D ~E~LT fU LJT 4163. ^<f an example of a farmery to be managed by a bailiff, we give that of Skeibo,also in Sutlierland. The farm consists of 450 acres, the greater part taken from aheathery waste. It contains a suitable house for the grieve or bailiff, and attached to(lie office is a threshing machine, combining a corn or meal-mill. Its accommodations X x 4 fi«0 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pari ire, a chaff-house, corn-rooms, threshing-mill, with water-wheel and straw-house;cattle-sheds, poultry-houses, and piggery; stables, byres, cart-shed, cattle-shed, Hairymeal-house, lodge for ploughmen, paved way, and cattle-yards. 416 1. As an example of a small fanner,/ in the count,/ of Stafford, we select that of B g 606 K mill wall. (jig. 606.) The extent is 104 acres ; the soil is strong and rather wet, andthere are some water and other house and yard-buildings are of brickand tile, and their accommodations are, akitchen (a), a brew-house (l>), parlour (c), sit-ting-room (//>, pantry (<?), milk-house (/),court-yard open (g), coals (A), hackney-stable (t), turkey-house (A:), pigsties (7), wag-gon-horse stable(m), corn-bay (/<), barn (.»),si raw-bay (/, ), cow-tyings(y), fodder-bins (r),calf-houses (s), and waggon-shed, granaryover, connected with barn (/). As an example of a middle-sizedfarmery on a clayey soil, we may refer to thatof Newstead, in S
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