-BUILDINGS.

On ſome eſtates, the farm-buildings are ſubſtantial and well arranged. The beſt fituation for the accommodation of the farm 15 generally choſen. Dwelling-houſes on many eſtates are two ſtories high, and are uſually covered with Nate or tile. Many of the houſes in the Carſe are of brick, well plaſtered and finiſhed within. Foreign timber, where it can be got on reaſonable terms, is always preferred. Fir, the growth of the country, is ſometimes employed, but ſoon periſhes, or requires frequent and conſiderable repairs. By the conſtruttion of the offices, very little barn-room is al- lowed, the whole crop being ſtacked in the yard; a Prac- tice which generally prevails over all Scotland, and is at- tended with the beſt conſequences. The corns are thereby kept more dry and better conditioned than when depoſited in houſes; leſs is deſtroyed by vermin, when Proper care is taken in building the ſtacks, and the great expence rhat ne- ceſſarily attends the eredion of capacious barns, and keep- ing them in repair, is avoided. Upon the greateſt farms a white corn and a peaſe barn" are to be found. Threſhing- floors for the moſt part require much improvement. They are but too generally formed of clay only, and not of planks, of which it is conceived every threſhing-floor ought to conſiſt, in order, among other things, to produce a clean ſample of grain. In the beſt arranged farms, the buildings are ſo conſtruded 25 to ſurround the yard, where the cattle, well littered down, are foddered through the winter; a pradice which produces the greateſt quantity of manure. The yard is uſually provided with a ſhade for cattle to go under in ſevere weather. The expence of the whole build- ings, as convenlence not ſhow is principally intended, may riſe from one to three years rent of the farm. The re- mains of the old buildings, eſpecially in ſome Places"of the Carſe, form a ſtriking contraſt with the neatneſs and con- venience of houſes ereted in modern times. The old ones

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