. 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. Agriculture. 1. Barn 2. Show-room 3. Mill-shed 4. Common sta- ble 5. Riding-horse stable 6. Ox-feeding house 7. Cow-house 8. Hospital
. 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. Agriculture. 1. Barn 2. Show-room 3. Mill-shed 4. Common sta- ble 5. Riding-horse stable 6. Ox-feeding house 7. Cow-house 8. Hospital stable house 10. Cattle-sheds 11. Cart-shed 12. Carpenter's " shed 13. Smith's forge 14. Tool-house 15. Piizgeries lfi. Puultry 17. Well and cis- tern IS. Farmer's kit- chen 19. Common par- lour 20. Business room VI. Entrance. a. Corn-barn 6. Straw end c. .Mill-shed d. Common stable e. Riding-horse stable /. Hospital A'. Cattle-shed A. Cart-shed l. Piggeries i. Poultry fr. Piggeries /. Tool-house m. Carpenter n. Smith o. Cattle-sheds p. Root-house q. Cow-house r. Ox-feeding house c. Washing-pond t. Side-road u. Entrance to rick-yard t\ Pond tv. Side road x. Main entrance. 2848. The English corn-barn, in which a large quantity of corn in the straw is to be contained, and threshed out with flails, may either be constructed on wooden frames covered with planks of oak, or be built of brick or stone, whichever the country affords in the greatest plenty; and in either case there should be such vent-holes, or openings in their sides or walls, as to afford free admittance to the air, in order to prevent the mouldiness that would otherwise, from the least dampness, lodge in the grain The gable-ends are probably best of brick or stone, on account of greater solidity; the whole may be roofed with thatch or tiles, as either can be more conveniently procured. It should have two large folding-doors facing each other, one in each side of the building, for the convenience of carrying in
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