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1. In a straight line forming one side of the court, havingthe threshing-mill near the middle, with the horse course,wind tower, or water wheel, on the outside; the corn barnon the one end, and the straw barn on the other, as inPlate VI.

2. At one corner of the court, with the corn barn alongone side, and the straw barn along the other, the threshing-mill at the corner, as in Plate VII.

3. At the centre of the north side of the court, in the formof the letter T, having the straw barn in a line with the court,and the corn barn projecting out from its centre into thestack-yard, with the mill at the end next the straw barn, andthe horse course, &c. in one of the angles, as in Plate VIII.This plan is generally preferred as the best *.

The length of the barn is in proportion to the size of thefarm ; the breadth also varies from the same cause; and whereforeign wood and a slate roof are used, the barn is muchwider than where Scotch fir, and roofs of heath and thatchare found. Some barns, even in the more improved dis-tricts, are only eighteen feet within walls ; but many intelli-gent farmers consider twenty feet preferable. A barn ofthirty-five feet in length, and twenty feet in breadth, exclu-sive of what part is occupied by the machinery, can easily con-

* In various cases barns have been built, I, Three stories high; 2, Twostories, having the under story fourteen feet high, with a platform for fan-ners in the middle; and, 3, Two stories of the common height. The two firstwere raised with an intention of winnowing the corn completely, by additionalfanners driven by the machine They are more complete, though more expen-sive.

Mr Erskine of Mar is of opinion, that a floor, after the fashion of the haychambers of Norfolk , would perfectly answer for the upper floor of a threshingbarn, and would be a considerable saving of expence. In this description ofbams, the only communication to the granary should be from this floor, whichis easily done by a gangway over the void of the lower floor of the barn. Thecom bam, with a threshing-mill, has two floors; the tipper, for receiving comfrom the stack; the under, for the corn room, where the threshed grain is re-ceived from the mill, with a space taken off for chaff. In this room also, theremay be a corn-mill, straw’-cutter, &c. The straw' barn should be placed imrae-