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heat will get into the wine and make it weak.

3. The oil room must be situated so as to get its light from the south
and from warm quarters; for oil ought not to be chilled, but should be
kept thin by gentle heat. In dimensions, oil rooms should be built to
accommodate the crop and the proper number of jars, each of which,
holding about one hundred and twenty gallons, must take up a space four
feet in diameter. The pressing room itself, if the pressure is exerted
by means of levers and a beam, and not worked by turning screws, should
be not less than forty feet long, which will give the lever man a
convenient amount of space. It should be not less than sixteen feet
wide, which will give the men who are at work plenty of free space to do
the turning conveniently. If two presses are required in the place,
allow twenty-four feet for the width.

4. Folds for sheep and goats must be made large enough to allow each
animal a space of not less than four and a half, nor more than six feet.
Rooms for grain should be set in an elevated position and with a
northern or north-eastern exposure. Thus the grain will not be able to
heat quickly, but, being cooled by the wind, keeps a long time. Other
exposures produce the corn weevil and the other little creatures that
are wont to spoil the grain. To the stable should be assigned the very
warmest place in the farmhouse, provided that it is not exposed to the
kitchen fire; for when draught animals are stabled very near a fire,
their coats get rough.

5. Furthermore, there are advantages in building cribs apart from the
kitchen and in the open, facing the east; for when the oxen are taken
over to them on early winter mornings in clear weather, their coats get
sleeker as they take their fodder in the sunlight. Barns for grain, hay,
and spelt, as well as bakeries, should be built apart from the
farmhouse, so that farmhouses may be better protected against danger
from fire. If something more refined is required in farmhouses, they may
be constructed on the principles of symmetry which have been given above
in the case of town houses, provided that there is nothing in such
buildings to interfere with their usefulness on a farm.

6. We must take care that all buildings are well lighted, but this is
obviously an easier matter with those which are on country estates,
because there can be no neighbour's wall to interfere, whereas in town
high party walls or limited space obstruct the light