AT MORPH IE, KINCARDINESHIRE.

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t riding-horse stable, 18 feet by 18, furnished with three stalls: the riding-horse stable and all the loose-boxes are within the work-horse stable; u gig-house, 18 feet by 10, with a 7-feet door; v hay-house, 18 feet by 15, with a 9-feet door in front, and an internal one leading into the straw-barn, and anotherinto the feeding-byre h ; w w w cart-sheds, one 18 feet by 27, with three 8-feetport-holes; another, 18 feet by 1G, with two 8-feet port-holes; and a third, 18feet by 9, with one 8-feet port-hole, which last may be a loose-box if desired,having an internal door into the adjoining cart-shed, and another into the tool-house ; x tool-house, 18 feet by 22 feet G inches, with a door in front; y cattle-shed, or court, 42 feet by 36 feet G inches; s a turnip-shed, 11 feet by 14,with an 8-feet door in front, and an internal one to the cattle-court y ; a' pig-sty,11 feet by 11, with a door in front; b' poultry-house, 18 feet by 15, with a doorin front; c guano-house, 11 feet by 10, with a door in front; d' carpenter’sshop, 18 feet by 10, with a door in front; e' boiling-house, 11 feet by 11, witha door in front, and boiler and furnace at a back corner; f potato-house, 9 feetby 11, with a door in front; rj privy, in the corner of the cattle-court y, with adoor from a cart-shed; h' the water-cistern for the steam-boiler.

23G. The extreme length of this steading over walls is 220 feet and width79 feet. The length of the projection backwards is 93 feet by 23.

237. The steading is entirely under cover, divided into three ranges, thecentral being 37 feet in width, flanked on each side by a range of 18 feet inwidth, within walls. The ranges terminate in gables at each end, as seen bythe front elevation in Plate XIII. The projection is two storeys, with the upperbarn above the corn-barn, and one granary, above the other, is roofed in byitself. The boiler-house, engine-room, and boiling and potato houses are roofedin by themselves, and so is the chaff-house. The front of the calves’ byre ois elevated into a gable for ornament, and there the pigeon-house may besituated.

238. The scale of this ground-plan is in the proportion of a little more than§ of an inch to the foot.

239. It will be observed, in the arrangement of the ajiartments of this stead-ing, that the straw-barn is quite at hand to the feeding-byre h, and convenientfor the stables, and loose-boxes, and cattle-sheds i k l. The cattle-sheds at yarc a little out of the way of the straw-barn. It is a good idea to place thegranaries in two floors, and to project them into the stackyard, but in thatcase a door will be required on each side of the upper barn to receive thesheaves from either side of the stackyard. The want of a high range eastand west along the north side, to screen the buildings from the north wind, is notfelt in this case, where all the apartments are under cover.

240. Still there are some inconveniences in the arrangement. The feeding-byre h is made a thoroughfare for the straw from the barn d. The cattle-shedsi, k, l, and y, the stables q and t, the loose-boxes r and s, the cow and calves’byres n and o, cannot be reached from the straw-barn but through the feeding-byre li ; and the cattle-shed y, in particular, must have its straw carried throughthe work-horse stable and boxes besides. The carpenter’s shop should, weconceive, never form an integral part of any steading. Upon the whole, this isa compact convenient steading.

241. The arrow points to the north.

242. On the policy of placing all the apartments arid courts of a steadingunder a series of roofs, there maybe difference of opinion. The entire coveringhas a protective, snug, comfortable appearance from the outside, but the comfort