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FARM-HOUSES AX'P OFFICES

command a view of the open side of the court, from the win-dows of the most frequented apartments.

The size of a farm-house is regulated hv that of the farm.On farms from 200 to 400 acres, a parlour, kitchen, scullery,pantry and dairy, on the ground floor, with four bed-roomsabove, arc found to be sufficient. On larger farms, a housewith two parlours, business room, kitchen, back kitchen, pan-try and dairy, on the ground floor, with four or more roomsabove, is commonly allowed.

When the house is placed on a slope, and the ground fallsconsiderably to one side, the principal entrance is frequentlymade from the high ground, the parlour floor being raisedas much as necessary to admit an under story, entering fromthe low ground behind, which contains the kitchen, scullery,dairy, See. thus forming two stories, and a half sunk one.This makes a convenient house of a large size, and, owing tothe small extent of roof, is executed at less expence, than oneof two stories, containing the same accommodation.

For the more minute details, see Plates V, VI, VII, IX,and XIII, and Appendix NO. H.

2 . Barns.

Where the grain is threshed by the hand, a circumstancerarely occurring in the more improved districts, the floor of thebarn is made all on the same level, with the space for thresh-ing near the middle, and large doors on the opposite sides of thewalls. In all barns, it is held to be of essential consequence,that the floors be perfectly dry, and particularly so in threshingbarns, where the use of the flail is continued. But the greatadvantages of the threshing-mill being now so well establish-ed, and that machine being so generally adopted, it becomesunnecessary to describe any other barns, than those general-ly erected where such machines are employed.

Barns are built in three different forms, according as theybest suit the situation and arrangement of the other offices.