490 EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



ner, and, in looking at her in her laborious service, I could not 

 help thinking of that noble line, 



&quot;Act well your part; there all the honor lies.&quot; 



The manure of the stock is thrown into the yards. Different 

 kinds are mixed, and some hogs are kept among it, who, by 

 stirring it constantly, prevent its fermentation. The liquid 

 manure is all saved in tanks, and, in some cases, is, with great 

 success, led over the fields. 



With the water obtained from the drainage of the land, Mr. Sco- 

 bell has created a mill-power, which turns a wheel twenty-eight 

 feet in diameter. With this is connected a threshing machine, a 

 winnowing machine, and a flour and grain mill, for the purposes 

 of the establishment ; and the same power is applied to a mill for 

 crushing and sifting bones, to a chaff-cutter, and to a grindstone. 



Prom the situation of the ground, likewise, on the side-hill, 

 Mr. Scobell is enabled to irrigate portions of his land, which he 

 does with great advantage. From the rocky character of the 

 country, the fences on the farm are stone walls, a very desirable 

 mode of disposing of the surplus stone in the fields ; and his 

 gates upon the farm are of iron, at the moderate cost of 7s. 6d. 

 per gate. They appeared, however, quite too light and frail for 

 endurance. 



The fixtures on the farm are of the rudest description, and no 

 pretensions are made to neatness or exactness ; but every thing 

 seemed well cared for ; and for economical arrangements, for 

 effecting the purposes intended, for a management combining 

 the lowest scale of expenditure with the highest scale of profit, 

 few more successful examples have ever come under my obser 

 vation. The courageous enterprise, which could boldly face 

 the obstacles to be encountered in this most inauspicious tract 

 of country, would qualify a man for a much higher military 

 commission than that which its proprietor had borne, and the 

 sound judgment and skill which suggested and planned the 

 improvements, and carried them out with such a creditable 

 economy of labor, are well worthy of commendation. 



