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surface, it is found more economical to employ tile or pipes. 

 After thorough drainage, every acre of the farm was subsoiled, 

 and gradually the whole was limed, at the rate of one hundred 

 and twenty bushels an acre, and divided into ten-acre lots, 

 without fences. 



Not the least unpractical labour or expense for show has 

 been made. The walls, gates, farrn-house, stables, and out 

 buildings, are all of simple, and even rude construction. As 

 far as I could judge, every arrangement and every practice 

 upon the farm was such as would commend itself to any 

 farmer, and might be easily followed by any one who could 

 command the capital which a similar extent of soil would seem 

 to need for its profitable cultivation. Almost every inch 

 of the surface outside the buildings and the lane is tilled, 

 there being no pasture. In the stables we found a stock 

 of mongrel cows, mostly of Hereford and Short-horn blood, 

 bought to be fattened. No stock is raised. Each cow was 

 in a separate loose box. They are fed at this season with 

 clover and trefoil, and supplied with a great profusion of 

 straw litter. The manure is allowed to accumulate under 

 them until it becomes inconvenient. The cows appeared 

 to be in healthy and thriving condition ; they were generally 

 lying down and quietly ruminating with an aspect of entire 

 satisfaction. The horse-stalls were of the form and size most- 

 common in our cities ; the horses rather lighter than the or 

 dinary English draught-horses. A steam-engine is employed 

 for threshing, cutting turnips, &c. All the crops but wheat, 

 I believe, are fed upon the farm, and all the straw is used as 

 litter ; of course an immense stock of manure is manufactured, 

 and little or none needs to be bought to sustain a high 

 fertility and large crops of every kind. 



Under this system, Mr. Morton is able to grow wheat 

 every second year ; so that one-half the farm was covered 



