344 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



saved, and you will have pure air, sweet milk, and a clean 

 stable. 



Opening from the stables should be a root cellar. This, 

 too, can be made proof against frost by a double brick wall, 

 leaving an air space of two inches between the two walls. 

 The inner wall, like the lining of the stables, may be made 

 with the brick edge-wise. No farmer can afford to raise 

 young stock or keep milch cows without an abundance of 

 roots. I speak from twenty years' experience in root raising. 

 Under the stables should be a cellar, or, for want of this, a 

 lean-to or shed, for storing manure. The horse stable and 

 piggery should be in clos^ proximit3\ I^^ ^ recent discus- 

 sion, in our county, upon the wastes of the farm, was 

 enumerated with great truth the heating of horse manure. 

 This can be wholly prevented by using this manure, with 

 its accompanying litter, as an absorbent in the pig-pen, with 

 its stone floor, and thus a fertilizer, containing nearly as 

 much ammonia as the famous Peruvian guano, can be made 

 at home at little cost except in the arrangement of our 

 buildings. Every yard should have its water. 



Somewhere in the barn should be a place assigned for 

 grain that is to be threshed, and in the floor beside it a place 

 for a thresher, propelled by horse power, and a loft beyond 

 for straw. No one but those who have tried it knows how 

 much can be gained by threshing before husking, so that the 

 straw can be used in alternate layers with the corn fodder ; 

 thus one can be saved in good condition, and the other 

 doubled in value for feeding purposes. Even the tops of 

 turnips and mangels can be preserved in tliis way, to be fed 

 out in the winter, to our sheep and young stock. As is the 



