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run on the north side, at a convenient distance, back to the yard where 

 the bara should be located, circumstances and locality permitting, in a 

 north-easterly or westerly direction from the dwelling, those being the 

 points from which we have the best prevailing winds during the season 

 when fermentation is most rapid in the barn-yard. The object is, to 

 avoid as much as possible, the effluvia arising, which is not only un- 

 pleasant but decidedly unhealthy. With a south front, a lane may be 

 made on either side of the dwelling, as convenience may dictate. A 

 good spacious yard should be reserved around the dwelling, to be ap- 

 propriated to shade, shrubbery, and fruit of various kinds, in the rear 

 of which, and adjacent to it, should be the cow yard, hog yard, poultry 

 yard, <fec., «fcc., as taste, convenience, or circumstances may require, all- 

 accessible to the back yard or lane, and within the supervision of the 

 family, while engaged in the various avocations of household duties. 

 With this an-angement, but one gate is to be passed to obtain access to 

 the several apartments, and should that be a pair of bars, it would not, 

 to say the least, be an aggravation doubly aggravated. The lane should 

 be sufficiently spacious to allow the deposit of all farming utensils, while 

 in active use, and to permit the turning of wheel carriages. Of course, 

 all such articles will or should be housed, when not in use. It is our 

 province to treat of things as we now find them, with the hope that 

 such suggestions as are thrown out may be of advantage to some, who, 

 apparently have begun without any definite plan as to the final ar- 

 rangement. 



Your committee have also visited the farms of Stephen Millei and 

 William Johnson, in Lasalle, on which we find many things in the way 

 of agricultural improvement worthy of commendation. The fences are 

 in good repair, the land clean and the soil well worked, and of superior 

 excellence, a degree of neatness exhibited throughout; however, that 

 degree of excellence has not yet been attained, which in the judgment 

 of your committee would entitle either to a premium. This is an age 

 of progress in agriculture, no less than in any of the avocations of life, 

 and your committee do not feel at liberty to bestow the meed of praise 

 upon what was considered good, in times past — we want additional im- 

 provements from year to year, until we, as agriculturists, shall not be 

 excelled by any people. We have a productive, friable soil, a healthy 

 and propitious climate, and a population proverbial 'for their imiomita- 



