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FENCES, BUILDINGS, &C. 



83. What is the number, size, and general mode of construction of 

 your farm, buildings, and their uses? 



34. What kind of fences do you construct? What is the heighth 

 and length of each kind, and their cost and condition ? Have you con- 

 structed any wire fence ? If so, what has been its cost, and what its 

 advantages, and how made? 



35. To what extent are your various farming operations guided by 

 accurate weighing and measuring? And to what degree of minuteness 

 are they registered by daily accounts? 



36. Do you keep regular farm accounts ? Can you state the annual 

 expense in improving your farm, and the income from it, with such pre- 

 cision that you can at the end of the year strike an accurate balance of 

 the debt and credit ? Would not this practice conduce very much to 

 close observation, careful farming, and in the end much improve your 

 system, as well as better your fortune ? 



37. Give the annual receipts and expenditures on your farm, specify- 

 ing each. 



The persons making applications for premiums on farms, must sub- 

 mit written/answers to these questions, which will be furnished by the 

 Secretary, to all who may apply for them. 



The statements to be forwarded to the Recording Secretary at Detroit, 

 on or before the first day of December, 1853. 



