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Mr. "W. limits himself to eight bushels of seed potatoes to 

 the acre. It is not to be understood that he prefers the small 

 potato for seed ; he usually takes those of medium size, but 

 never the large ones. He declares, however, in the most de- 

 cided manner, that he has obtained as fine potatoes from the 

 small ones as from any. 



The average number of inmates in the Asylum and House of 

 Correction in 1854, was two hundred and eleven. 



The sewage of the buildings flows as it should, into a common 

 reservoir ; but there, unfortunately, as it should not, it receives 

 the salt water of the river through the fissures of the rocky bed 

 of the reservoir. It is obvious, too, that if the river water can 

 come in, the sewage can leak out, even though the mass appears 

 about as wet as it ought to be, yet there must have been an 

 exchange of the most valuable materials from the sewer, for 

 the sea-salt water of the river. Sewage, when unmixed, is more 

 powerful, usually, than the purest guano, and not a particle 

 should be allowed to escape. It is presumed that the bottom 

 will be cemented, or a new locality found, before many years. 

 Should not the county authorities provide for the evil at once ? 



Farm of Ephraim Broiun, situated upon Marblehead Neck, so 



called, in Marblejiead. 



It need not be said that the productiveness of this farm has 

 been a frequent topic of remark for some years. To those 

 whose manures have been found somewhere in that long list 

 enumerated by Mr. Richardson in 1851, where " forest leaves, 

 chips, shavings, earth from the poultry yard, pigeon house and 

 ash bins, scraps of leather, and coal ashes," were but small 

 specimens, the crops of Mr. Brown have indeed been incredible. 

 While Mr. B. has not neglected his barn-cellar and barn-yard, 

 — for they both show that they have had the most careful atten- 

 tion, — yet so happily is his farm located, and so wide awake is 

 Mr. B. to the value of sea manure, that all the wealth of his 

 land may be referred to that one word of Mr. Richardson, 

 '■'precious kelp^ 



Not one in a thousand of our farmers is situated by the sea- 

 side. And as an apology for those who doubt the statements 

 of the great productiveness of Mr. B.'s farm, not one in a thou- 



