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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



Fig. 



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a> 



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a, 



Fla 



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a' 



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a is the flooring ; b c are compartments ; d are 

 doors; t a wire gauze; /are wisdom; <j is the 

 door; A is wire gauze on the same; i are par- 

 tition*; A- the smoke-hole; / are the walls. 



The building intended for a granary con- 

 structed on this plan is built in the usual man- 

 ner, except that the walla b arc made double, 

 one side of the other, the space between being 

 filled in with salt. The partitions t are so con- 

 structed in the same manner, so that betweea 

 the different compartments a t there are double 

 partitions containing a filling of salt. When 

 the granary is finished and ready fbl 086, the 

 floor should be saturated with salt brine. The 

 house is now to be smoked by the introduction 

 of a stove-pipe through the hole A-, the pipe being 

 connected outside with an ordinary stove — the 

 6moke being carried through the hole k directly into the interior of the building; sawdust, 

 or any kind of wood used in smoking meat will answer. 



When the house is being smoked, the doors and windows should all be closed, but in 

 weather the windows maybe opened for ventilation. The grain may now be put in; and 

 if in bulk, it should be thrown up against the walls, slanting down towards the corners of the 

 garners. The partitions between the compartments are high where they join the wall- of 

 the building, and -hint down quite low towards the centre of the same, which permits the 

 introduction of light in the various parts. The house should be smoked at least once B month 



with sulphur, and likewise with w 1 and sawdust during cloudy or sultry weather, which 



are the periods when the weevil and other insects generate. If no insects be carried into the 

 granary with the grain, none will appear during the season; should any have been carried 

 in. they will perish, and not generate any more. The object of the gauze at the top of the 

 doors and the window- is to admit currents of cold air when an opportunity OOCUTS. Ball is a 



substance very destructive to insect*. By the employment of smoke in the manner described, 

 any superabundant moisture occasioned by the nse of salt will be carried off, and the condi- 

 tion of the granary may be at all times properly preserved. 



The claim is as follow-: •• I am aware thai Ball baa long been used aa a filling between the 

 timbers of ships, and also between the walla of ioe-houses ; and therefore to rach devia I 

 make mo claim. Bui F claim the mode herein described for malting granaries, having the 

 walls, floors, :md partition- filled in with common -ah. in the manner substantially a- -•■! forth." 



David Leavitt's Barn at Great Barrington, Massachusetts. 



About two yean lince, David Leavitt, Esq., late President of the American Exchange Bank, 



New York, purchased for bis son, irho bad a taste for rural pursuits, a beautiful farm of three 



hundred acres, situated about one mile south of o t <- delightful villa;:. • of Ghreal Barrington, 



nsette. With the assistance of Professor Wilkin -on, late Principal of the agricultural 



[nstitntion at Mount Airy, Mr. Leavitl commenced a series of improvements which, for the 



labor aiel e\p.-n-e attending them, are probably unequalled in the atinal- of American agri- 

 culture. The situation of the farm commands not only varied and picturesque scenery, but 

 i- admirably adapted for that system of improvements which it* proprietor i illy 



and bountifully executing. It* outline i- nearly quadrangular. On the Bouth-eaal the farm 



i- bounded by a high mountain, from which two -tream* run through a portion of the farm, 



forming a junotion in a deep ravine a short distance iVom the house. A Bsw roda below this 



junction, a dam i- thrown aero-- the ravine, and tie- arreted w StSH form a large and beauti- 

 ful pond, if we recollect rightly, about twenty feel deep. 

 The ban la built In the ravine; m Fact, i f it* sidea form* the dun to which we have 



alluded. It is a gigantic building, *panning the ravine, two hundred feet from -id" to side, 



