management pursued. The same farm which under one system maintains a certain number of sheep and cattle, and requires the labour of so many horses, may, perhaps, under a different system of husbandry, support two or three times the quantity of stock, and increase the demand proportionately for horse-labour.
Each system of husbandry, too, will give prominence to certain departments of the homestead. Thus in a dairy farm, the cow-house and the dairy offices are the chief feature. On a fattening farm, prominence must be given to boxes and covered yards, and to the arrangements for preparing food. On a mixed farm, which generally partakes of all systems, the buildings must be more numerous, and suited in some respects to all purposes.
The buildings and offices necessary for a perfect homestead on a mixed husbandry farm, will consist of—
- Farmhouse
- Cottages
- Corn-barn
- Straw-barn
- Granary
- Chaff-room
- Pulping-room
- Mill-room
- Mixing-floor
- Boiling-house
- Hay and grain sheds
- Silos
- Implement-sheds
- Cart-sheds
- Tool-house
- Manure-house
- Root-stores
- Potato-house
- Cow-houses
- Calf-pens
- Stalls for cattle
- Boxes for cattle
- Covered yards
- Sheds with open yards
- Piggeries
- Stables
- Sheep-sheds
- Poultry-house
- Dairy
- Smith's and carpenter's shop
- Mess-room
- Engine-house
- Wool-store
- Slaughterhouse.
We may classify farms under the respective heads of arable, stock, and dairy, and as many sub-divisions as we please. But sub-divisions are not as a rule sharply distinguished from each other, and merely
