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farm-houses and offices

For the more effectual exclusion of vermin, granaries havebeen constructed over detached cart-sheds, the side walls ofwhich are discontinued about two feet from the top. Thegranary is supported by smooth round pillars with stonecopes projecting one foot round the top of each. Verminare more effectually excluded from a granary placed withinthe barn above the threshing floor, both by its height andthe dilliculty of access, and by the frequent operations on thelower floors.

Wherever the granary is placed, the side-walls must be rais-ed a few feet above the floor, and an additional floor is indis-pensable in every case. There is therefore no greater expenceincurred by placing it on a third floor under the roof of thebarn, than in any other part of the buildings.

Granaries are divided into several parts by deal partitions,which are either fixed or may be shifted at pleasure. By thismeans, different kinds of grain, and different parcels of thesame kind, are more effectually kept separated, than by mere-ly placing them at a distance from one another, for which agreat deal of more room would be required. The side-wallsshould be cither coated with ceiling plaster or lined with deals.

4. Stables.

Farmers’ stables were at no distant period much too small;the width was not sufficient for horses standing along bothside-walls, as was formerly the practice, and there were eitherno stalls at all, or they were far too narrow. In many in-stances at present, even when they stand all on one side,they are not allowed a sufficient space in the width of theirstalls, and the width of the house itself does not afford thenecessary accommodation.

Stables lately erected are at least 16 feet wide within walls,and sometimes 18, and the width of each'stall upon the lengthof the stable is not less than 5 feet. To save a little room,stalls of 9 feet are sometimes made to hold two horses, and,in that case, the manger and the width of the stall arc divid-