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Having alluded to barn-cellars, we arc reminded of remarks 

 occasionally thrown out by an oddity, that he would not have 

 such an institution under his barn. The sentiment and remarks 

 would be excusable, perhaps, had his knowledge of them been 

 confined to such as we have witnessed in one or two instances. 

 If a cavern is dug out under an old barn standing in a hollow, 

 the owner need not be surprised if the manure is sometimes 

 diluted with more water than is necessary or convenient. If 

 such cellar or excavation has become a receptacle for ploughs, 

 harrows, wheelbarrows, or other necessary adjuncts to farm 

 operations, in addition to the manure heap, and these imple- 

 ments are frequently found submerged in cold, though not 

 colorless, tea, the aspect is far from delectable. 



During the last twenty-five years we have seen many barns 

 erected, but in no instance without a cellar under the same. In 

 more cases the sites have been selected with as much taste and 

 judgment as the circumstances would allow, having special 

 reference to saving and increasing the quantity and improving 

 the quality of the manure. This is as it should be. The 

 importance of saving everything which can be converted into food 

 for plants is a growing sentiment that is becoming more firmly 

 fixed in the minds of thinking and observing men from year to 

 year. It is not a sentiment for thought, merely, but is being 

 acted upon intelligently. The country is advancing in age and 

 the population becoming more dense, rendering an increased 

 and increasing amount of food for the support of human life a 

 necessity ; hence an imperative demand for a more bountiful 

 supply of food to supply vegetable life. 



In view of the fact that so little attention has been paid to 

 the rearing of blood stock in our district, we feel constrained, 

 in concluding our remarks, briefly to urge attention to this busi- 

 ness. Remember that the extra expense of breeding blood 

 stock is in the first cost alone. Having once started in the 

 right direction by procuring your breeding animals, exercise 

 prudence and judgment in pursuing the system in order to 

 prevent contamination in the blood, and we apprehend no 

 difficulty in the way of realizing abundant success. 



While we are ready to admit that the great mass of farmers 

 have not the means to branch out into experiments, unless they 

 are first assured that success will crown their efforts, it is to be 



