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As it is impossible to foresee to what length this plan (whichhas already been successfully adopted in regard to cottages,and has even been extended to farm offices), may in time becarried, all the information which has yet been collected onthe subject, with plans and estimates of the buildings, will befound in the Appendix , NO. VI.
As many persons may be inclined to prefer cottages withtiles or slates, instead of arched roofs, and others to have themof two stories, and with paper roofs; the plans (Plates. III. andIV.) and estimates of such buildings, will be found in the Ap-pendix , NO. VII, explaining the particulars regarding' thesemodes of construction.
1 SECT. II.
• OF FARM-HOUSES AND OFFICES.
It has been observed by a most competent judge, “ thatthere is no criterion by which the agricultural prosperi-ty of a country can be better determined, or the conditionof those who exercise it, more correctly ascertained, thanby the general state and appearance of farm-houses andoffices. If these are substantially constructed, and properlyarranged, it will always be found, that agriculture is in aprosperous state. If, on the other hand, the farm-buildings aremeanly executed, or improperly arranged, then it may belaid down as a rule, that the districts in which these circum-stances prevail have not reached to that perfection in hus-bandry, to which their more fortunate neighbours have at-tained
Robert Brown, Esq. of Markle.