AGMCULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



FARMS. 



The committee of the Norfolk Society suggest the propriety 

 of adopting some known standard of judgment to be used by 

 committees on farms. The following is suggested by them as 

 worthy of notice : — 



Requisites and Evidences of Good Farming. 



1st. A good soil, well tilled, and kept free of various weeda, 

 both on the fields and the roads. 



2d. Lots well fenced, and suited in number to the size of 

 the farm. 



3d. Substantial and convenient barns and stables of sufficient 

 dimensions to contain the produce of the farm, and to comfort- 

 ably house the cattle kept on it. 



4th. A judiciously arranged dwelling, in neat condition, with 

 a well and filtering cistern. 



5th. Convenient buildings to facilitate the economical man- 

 agement of th-e farm ; among which may be enumerated a wood- 

 house, a wagon and tool-house, a workshop, a granary and 

 corn-house, a convenient piggery, an ice-house, ash and smoke- 

 house, all secured against decay by being well raised from tho 

 ground and neatly painted or whitewashed. 



6th. Convenient yards attached to tlie barns and stables, so 

 arranged as to prevent waste of the liquid manure, well 

 sheltered from the blasts of winter, and provided wdth water 

 for the cattle. 



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