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Oj the Accommodation required on Arable Farms.

On farms chiefly adapted to grazing, a small set of officeswill suffice j but arable farms require a great number of conve-niences, more especially when they are on a large scale; and itis a misfortune attending small arable farms, that they requirenearly the same number of offices as large ones, the differencebeing only in regard to size or extent. On small sized farms,however, the farmer must often submit to many inconve-niences, which cannot be remedied without more expencethan a small occupation can afford. For the court yard ofsuch farms, the parallelogram figure is usually preferred, ha-ving the long sides from east to west, with a plain wall, front-ing the south, which renders it easy to enlarge the area atpleasure.

In the engraving, Plate V, will be found the plan and ele-vation of a house and offices, for a small farm of from 50 to100 acres, in which the buildings are made as simple andeconomical as possible; but on arable farms of a greater ex-tent, say of 300 acres and upwards, the following accommo-dations are necessary.

1. A comfortable dwelling-

house.

2. Barns.

3. A granary.

4. Stables.

5. Feeding-houses.

6. Cow-houses or byres.

7. A calf-house.

8. A Dairy.

9. A poultry-house.

10. Pig-houses.

11. A boiling or steaming-house.

12. A cart shed and place for im-plements.

13. A root-house.

14. Stack or rick yard; and

15. Straw yards, with dung-pitand reservoir for urine.

The most approved construction and arrangement of thesebuildings shall be concisely stated.

1 . Farm-houses.

It is considered as a good rule, to have the farmer’s housenot too far removed from the offices, and So placed that he may