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DO foul weeds permitted to occupy the comei-s or waste places ; the fields 

 not under immediate cultivation, well seeded with clover; watering 

 places provided for the stock, and various other fixtures facilitating the oc- 

 cupation. Mr. Tracy has not devoted sufficient attention to fruit and 

 shade-trees around his dwelling, two very desirable adornments of a 

 good farm. 



We also visited the farm of R. Tolford,in Raisinville, which also ex- 

 hibited the marks of good cultivation ; the fields well arranged and 

 clean, with a thriving young orchard, comprising a choice selection of 

 fruit. The front and back -yards adjacent to the house, well fiUed with 

 shade and fruit trees, and shrubbery judiciously disposed. There is 

 one feature in the arrangement of the buildings, on the farm of 

 Mr. Tracy, and also of Mr. Tolford, which some of your Committee 

 cannot approve, which k, placing the house and barn on opposite sides 

 of the highway. 



Our reasons are numerous, some of which we will briefly enumerate : 

 Fii-stly, crossing the public thoroughfare in going to and fro, and the 

 constant exposure of that part of the family who perform the offices 

 of the cow-yard and stable, or more plainly speaking, who do the 

 chores. These duties, with most fanners, devolve upon the younger 

 part of the family, who have two gates to pass, and a road to ciuss, sev- 

 eral times each day, in performance of them, making the task somewhat 

 arduous, and should unwieldy bars substitute the place of gates, (as is 

 not unfrequently the case,) really so. Where the bam is placed oppo- 

 site the house, it is by the same pervereion of taste, placed close to the 

 highway, very much exposed to the annoyance of all street depredators, 

 and convenient of access to the vicious and easily tempted. 



With farm buildings so situated, the highway is almost sm-e to be 

 the place of deposit for wagons, cans, plows, harrows, and all the reti- 

 nue of farming utensils, during the whole year, taxing the safety, con- 

 venience and ingenuity of the public, to pass them unharmed, and 

 testing very hardly the forbearance of the mischievous. 



WhUe on this subject, and lest it should be said we can tear down 

 more easily than we can build up, we will assign some few reasons for 

 a different, and in our view, more eligible location of farm buildings. 

 And this will depend in some measure upon the locality and facing of 

 the building. With an east or west front, the lane may be made to 



