THE

AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

NB. 4,X.] JULY, 1804. Vor. XL]

ON A MOVEABLE BARN, CONTRIVED AT THE ROYAL FARMS IN WINDSOR GREAT PARK. [WITH A PLATE ANNEXED.]

To the Editor gf the Agricultural Magazine.

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Acknowledge myself to be a man of prejudice: I have 1 no portion of that republican Spirit which considers every thing valuable and Important, In proportion tO the meanness and vulgarity of its origin. 1 have read with rap- ture the details from imperial China, in which the Sovereign of that vast dominion 15 represented at an annual festival as guiding the plougb with his own band. Every Subject of this country who has felt any thing of ihe loyal spirit, will have heard with corresponding Sentiments of the beloved Monarch of this country, who has condescended to the lowly Situa- tion of a farmer, and who has taken the lead in Some of the most essential improvements in British agriculture. 1 know that this act of humiliation, has expozed the most ele vated character of this nation, to the censure of the proud, and to the ridicule of the vain, but Cincinnatus will be remembered when Lucullus is forgotten; and the Prince who cConnects the abundance enjoyed by bis people with the glory ot his crown, will be both loved and revered,; and find his Secu- rity and hovour established ip tbe bearts of his people. These few observations, the result of afftection and veneration for the most distinguiShed farmer of this country, have beey inciden- tally Suggested to my mind by the conzideration of the numer« ous benefits derived from the experiments on the royal farms in Windsor Great Park. Of one of thiese[ have Sent you a drawing, which I hope yon will think worthy of a place in your next number. It is a moveable barn, Standing on wheels, and calculated for drawing over a rick of corn. Tü his little edifice, a barn floor is coutrived, and its utility is obvious, in a farm where any portion of the arable land is Situated at a dislance-„The external part Is deal, and may be covered with maisb reed, and the whöle expence(rom 301. to 601. according to the charge ot workmanship and ma- terials, and the intention of he farmer to have tbe building more or less complete.+6

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