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those advantages. He estimates a saving in motive power, 

 as represented by horses, " putting the expense of each 

 horse at only 10. a year," of 750,000^. annually since 1840; 

 and this arising from the only partial adoption of the im- 

 proved implements which agricultural shows have brought 

 under every one's observation. In the case of carriages he 

 proves that the economy in capital is even greater than the 

 economy in operation, for, whereas on a farm of 200 acres 

 they would cost under the old system 161L, they are amply 

 furnished under the new for 57L 10s. "To use them" 

 (the old carriages) " still, is like running a stage-coach in 

 these days between London and Bath." He next adverts 

 to the increased use of agricultural steam-engines, and to 

 their greatly-diminished consumption of fuel. He calcu- 

 lates the saving by the employment of the best threshing- 

 machines, as compared with threshing by hand, to be 7s. 

 per acre on wheat ; and states that they will perform double 

 the work of ordinary machines which are still in general 

 use ; " a difference which could not exist two years at 

 Manchester," a very apt illustration, for we have heard it 

 said that every successful cotton-spinner of old standing has 

 broken up or burnt his machinery two or three times in the 

 course of his career. Mr. Pusey says that he will never 

 incur the expense of barning another rick before threshing 

 it, and hints at dispensing with barns altogether. We do 

 not know whether he means to risk rain when threshing. 

 He lives in the driest county in England. We should not 

 be disposed to be so adventurous, but we are inclined to 

 think that barns are not unlikely to be in some measure 

 superseded by covered stack-yards, built on pillars, and 

 covered perhaps with corrugated iron. In a small pamphlet, 

 entitled " On the Construction of Farm-Buildings in Ireland" 

 (W. S. Orr and Co., London and Liverpool), this plan is 

 advocated, and detailed estimates are given of the expense. 

 The writer justly says : 



" The use of the covered stack-yard is not only a shelter 

 to the produce, but a considerable saving in the expense of 



