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quences of allowinff their teams to drink such turbid stuff. At 

 the bottom of foul pools, besides many other noxious reptiles, 

 there accumulate the larv;c of a large species of beetle, which, 

 swallowed by the drinking animal, are productive of the worst 

 results, causing them to void blood, and greatly reducing them 

 in flesh and strength, if indeed they recover at all. 



Liquid Manure Tank. — Entering in autumn, the farmer can 

 have made at once — whether of clay, as recommended by Mr. 

 Dickenson, or of masonry — one or more of these useful append- 

 ages to a farm upon which the fertility of the artificial grasses 

 depends so greatly ; pipes being laid from the cow-sheds, stables, 

 and piggeries, as well as from the centre of the straw-yard, the 

 surface of which should be sloped from each side down to the 

 mouth of the drain in the middle, just as stalls for geldings are 

 paved. 



Water -Meadow. — When water is abundant, a rivulet con- 

 venient, and the land lying low, an energetic man has it in his 

 power at once to form that most valuable adjunct to a farm, a 

 water-meadow, before the November rain sets in and the season 

 of irrigation comes on ; while the fences he may pull down and 

 burn, together with tangled sods of the old banks, will afford a 

 top-dressing of ashes, found by Mr. Pusey so beneficial at the 

 first laying out of his celebrated catch-meadows. 



We suppose, of course, the case of a man following an ordinary 

 tenant of tlie old-fashioned class, that is satisfied ever with what 

 is and has been, and never dreams of improvement. Under any 

 circumstances, however, an active mind will always find room 

 for improvement, every man having his own mode of operation, 

 as he has distinct features and a distinct genius. 



All this, and much other work best done in autumn and 

 during the winter season, will have to be done, we must re- 

 member, by the in-coming tenant under exaggerated circum- 

 stances. It is certainly the exception when a man gives up a 

 farm in fine condition and a cleanly state. More usually the 

 case is, that from circumstances of discontent, or disaster, or 

 shortened means, the outgoing tenant has removed ; or perhaps 

 under notice from his landlord. It is not, therefore, likely that 

 the land and premises will bo left in a highly desirable plight. 

 When a farm is surrendered contentedly, VvC may fairly conclude, 

 as a rule, that there is a son or relative ready to step into the 

 outgoing tenant's place, whicli would make it a matter of com- 

 parative indifference whether he came into occupation in autumn 

 or spring. On the whole, then, I am led to the full conclusion 

 that it is more advantageous to an in-coming tenant to have entire 

 entry in Autumn than in Spring. 



To sum up in a iew words. A farmer who has come into pos- 



