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be too extenſive for an Agricultural Survey; thoſe who wiſh for information on this fubje(t, we beg leave to re- fer to Hutchinſon’s View of Northumberland, Pennant’s Tour,&c.&c.

SECT. 2.— Farm Houſes, Offices, Se.

Buildings,—for the uſe and convenience of farms, were formerly very ſhabby and ill contrived; but thoſe that have been eredted of late years, are better adapted to the various purpoſes wanted for extenſive farms and improved cultivations

The moſt approved form of diſtributing the various offices is, on the eaſt, weſt, and north ſides of a re(&tan=- gular parallelogram, which is generally divided into two fold-yards, for‘cattle of different ages, the ſouth being left open to admit the ſun; and for the ſame reaſon, and alſo for the ſake of cleanlineſs and health, the farm houſe is removed in front thirty or forty yards; between which „nd the ſouth wall of the fold is a ſmall court for coals,

young poultry, XC. as in the annexed plan

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