It has virtually turned the threshing-floor out of doors.

Grain growing has become completely out-of-door work, from seeding to sending to market.

The day of building two-story barns for storing and threshing wheat, barley and oats is over, I am persuaded, in this country.

A quadrangle of slate-roofed cow-sheds, for housing horses and cattle, will displace the old-fashioned barns, each with its rood of roof.

This I saw on crossing the Tweed was quite new, and may serve as a model of the housing that will come into vogue rapidly.