Identifier: pdiaofaencyclo00loudrich (find matches)
Title: An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Agriculture -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and granary over («) ; riding-horse stable (b) ; common stable (<•) ; stalled cattle (r/) ;places for tools and other articles of the cattle attendant (, I, ?,i) ; tools and sundries (/) ; smiths shop (j) ; carpenters (k) ;yard for pigs and sties («) ; place for straw and turnips (o) ; open yards with sheds forwintering cattle (y), and exterior passage (y). The different elevations of this designhere given are on too small a scale to be adequately judged of by a general observer;but whoever has paid a moderate degree of attention to architectural lines and formswill foresee the good effect of the ranges of arcades and pillars, the far-projecting roofs,and the general symmetry and regularity, as far as the requisite attention to fitness for theend in view will admit. We regret we cannot render justice to the author of this desi

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