There was also a large, heavy iron roller, which the scholars could if they chose drag round and round the gravel path.
Architecture, again, touches the agriculturist nearly.

He requires buildings for the pigs, cattle, horses, labourers, engine and machinery, lastly, for himself.

Out of doors almost any farmhouse that could be visited might be made by a lecturer an illustrative example of what ought to be avoided.

Scarcely one could be found that was not full of mistakes--utterly wrong, and erected regardless of design and utility.
Within doors, with ink, tracing paper, compasses, straight-edge and ruler, really valuable ground plans, front elevations, and so on, could be laid down.

Altogether, with this circle of science to study, the future farmer had very hard work to face.