An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 397
long, two feet high,eighteen inches broad at one end, and, allowing for the horns of the ram, one foot atthe other ; and tlie swine may be considered as a wedge of the same size and shape as thesheep. Assuming these averages to be sufliciently correct for practice, two importantconclusions may be… … 2o7 circles, or segments of circles parallel to each other ; and that the rack or manger beingrequired for the small end of the wedge, should always be placed against the smallestcircle or segment; and, secondly, that in all open yards where quadrupeds are allowedto run loose, and eat from racks or…
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