THE AUSTIN PAPERS 719 private, and also for the stairs to go up into the garret- The ground for the garden and orchard, and cow pens and stables corn cribs &c &c, and also the place for the kitchen and smoke house and the hen house and poultry yard ought all to be selected and marked out before the house is raised, and then you will •do everything on a fixed plan, and all will come out right, even if you are three or four years finishing it- s. F. AusTIN November 30, 1831. This plan shows the situation of the garden, yards, kitchen, cow pens. stables &c- I think that 16 feet square is too small for the kitchen, it ought to be 20 feet at least, for the chimney and oven will take up all one side and in this hot climate a small room for a kitchen would be very hot and unhealthy-· All the back buildings ought to be brick with brick floors-a common log cabin would do for n kitchen untill you could build of brick you will have to make bricks next fall for your chimneys- The place where you ought to make the brick is up the Chocolate bayou at Brays old Cabbin where there is Clay and Timber, and take the brick down by water By beginning on this plan and finishing it. by degrees you can do it all in a year or 18 months and not feel it materially-and when it is done you will have a valuable place and a convenient one EXPLANATION OF PLAN No. 1 Horse Lot-The fence round this lot ought to be very high and strong so as to pen wild horses or Cattle-which can • be driven into the lane and so through the bars No.·2 Calf Lot and Cow pens to be divided so as to make it con- venient for milking • No. 3 Gate or bars To go out and in with a carr~age or on Horse back, so as not to interfere with the trees in front of the house No. 4 Front Yard to be planted with orange trees etc· No. 5 In this back ynrd the pig styes-Lye gums and such things can be put up No. 6 This is laid off North and East, and I think it will suit the course of the Creek and timber to place the house in that way and make all the fences to correspond NoTE-The Garden fence ought to run down to the Creek, and also the calf lot fence- This would leave a space of upwards of an 100 feet wide from the garden fence to the calf lot fence extending back of the kitchen down to the Creek which would serve as back yard, poultry yard-and a place for washing and drying clothes,
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