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 408
on common farmsare not generally kept inseparate stalls, exceptin cases of sickness, orwhen they are near theperiod of cahing. Thewidth of a common farmcow-house, where thecows are to be rangedlengthwise of the build-ing, should be at leastsixteen feet, and thewidth allowed for eachcow, of the… … 38G COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCIIITKCTUUE. feet. Tlie manger should be a boarded, stone, or iron trough, placed so tJiat the upperedge may be from a foot to eighteen inches above the surface of the ground, or abouttlie heiglit of the cows knees; and it may l)e eighteen inches broad, and a…
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