ABSTRACT
William Ellis had a much more elaborate scheme, reminiscent of a modern milking bail on a permanent site, but rather fantastic in the conditions of 1750. Its essence was that eight sets of buildings should be put up on convenient sites in a hundred acre field of sainfoin. A Practical Farmer laid down the buildings necessary to equip different sizes of farms in 1772. A stream of water should be let through the buildings, if possible; if not, a reservoir should be made round the pump. A cheap building was quite as good as the expensive ones often put up by noblemen and gentlemen. In many of the Tudor farmhouses of East Anglia, which are lived in and worked in today, there is a dairy room as an integral part of the building. It is usually placed adjacent to the kitchen with which a door communicates. Stone flags form the floor, and there are substantial wooden shelves.
