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is filtered before being drawn for use. But it is in vain to attempt to describe the grandeur 

 of these magnificent edifices in the few moments devoted to them. 



For the best-arranged and most convenient set of farm buildings the premium is awarded, 

 to Pierre Lorillard. 



There have been laid on this farm, fifty-one miles of underdraining and nine miles of open 

 ditches, mostly discharging into the Ananicken creek, a branch of the Assiscunk, which 

 passes through the farm, which have reclaimed what was, a few years since, worthless swamp 

 and bog, but is now beautiful meadow, thickly set with fine grass and rich pasture, and is the 

 most successful experiment in reclaiming marshy land shown to the committee, and for which 

 they award the premium. 



For the most profitably-cultivated crop, the profits of which shall exceed one hundred 

 dollars per acre, they award the premium to D. E. Howatt, farmer for P. Lorillard, for 6| 

 acres of carrots, yielding by estimate (after pulling a few) 400 bushels per acre, making 

 2,700 bushels, which at 40 cents per bushel is $1,080; expense of seed, drilling, hoeing, cul 

 tivating, thinning, and six per cent, interest on the land, rated at $150 per acre, $212; leaving 

 net profit on 6| acres, $868. 



The attention of the committee was called to a field of 35 acres of good corn recently cut 

 and stacked up, and the ground (a sandy loam) was then being seeded with wheat. They 

 estimated the crop at 50 bushels per acre, making 1,750 bushels, which at 50 cents per bushel 

 gives $875; the whole cost of plowing, planting, and cultivating (rating the teams at $2.50 

 per day, laboring men $1.13 per day, boys 75 cents), amounting in all to $242, which, taken 

 from the value of the crop, leaves a profit of $633 on 35 acres; being an average of $18 

 per acre. 



They thought the above crop worthy of notice, as showing that farming when properly 

 managed will pay, even in these dull, hard times. 



Beautiful driveways, arched, gravelled, smooth and firm as a good turnpike -road, lead 

 to the different departments, buildings, and enclosures, and are lined with elegant fences 

 made of the best material; pickets and slats are largely of locust, posts six to seven feet high, 

 all painted, or coated with tar; they are clean, straight, erect, and free from any foul growth, 

 and for which the premium is awarded to P. Lorillard for the best and cleanest-kept fences 

 on a farm of not less than one hundred acres. 



The premium offered by the society for the best and most profitably-cultivated farm of 

 not less than fifty acres is not disposed of, as the committee are not able to arrive at the 

 immense value of the hundreds of thoroughbreds annually produced here, the records of some 

 of which are of world-wide fame; but as far as their knowledge extends, they can say that 

 this establishment is the largest, best, and most conveniently arranged in all its departments 

 for the purposes intended, to be found anywhere.&quot; 



&quot; Hillhurst.&quot; The proprietor of this farm, Mr. H. Cochrane, of Compton, Canada, 

 has gained an enviable reputation both in this country and England for the breeding of 

 choice stock, principally short-horns. The farm contains 1,100 acres, 300 of which are in 

 constant cultivation, and 300 in permanent pasture. The rotation followed is: first oats, 

 second roots, third wheat or barley sown down with timothy and clover, then grass ; the first 

 two years being always cut for hay, of which the second season produces invariably the most. 

 The soil is a dry loam, considerably stony, but advantage has been taken of the stones in 

 building substantial stone- walls and in constructing dikes along the road which intersects the 

 farm. The surface is undulating, somewhat hilly, the buildings extensive and commodious, 

 providing ample accommodations for a large stud of horses, a fine herd of short-horns, and 

 a magnificent flock of Shropshire sheep. The produce of one cow has brought Mr. Cochrane 

 27,000. Mr. J. Sparrow, of Woodlands Farm, Bath, England, one of the Tenant Farmers 

 Delegates for the Dominion of Canada, reports the following concerning &quot;Hillhurst:&quot; 



