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much cheapened), we shall, with great care as to arrange- 

 ment, use in the main larch poles and slabs. These will 

 last twenty or thirty years, and at the time of their erec- 

 tion we shall plant a waste acre with larch or fir, which will 

 come in for repairs, or for renewal, if, in the meantime, a 

 better arrangement has been discovered. Moreover, we 

 can now have a brickyard, without being troubled by the 

 visits of the exciseman, and in it we can make our own 

 draining-tiles and pan-tiles for covering, if we find it ex- 

 pedient. By these means, instead of the 10?. which is 

 often required, we expect to execute the work for 2Z., or at 

 most, 3Z. per acre. It seems to us, that, in our present 

 state of knowledge as to the management of manure, 

 whenever a farmer can command abundance of litter, or 

 dried peat, or any other substitute, boxes for the feeding 

 of cattle and lodging of horse, cheaply erected, and dis- 

 pensing with liquid manure tanks and water-carts, or other 

 arrangements for its distribution, afford the best and most 

 economical plan ; for we are quite of opinion with Mr. 

 Pusey, that " liquid manure is a pretty toy, but solid dung 

 is for farming in earnest." On half the farms with which 

 we are acquainted, want of extent and permanence in tbe 

 building is not the evil, but an arrangement which forbids 

 economy and the prevention of waste ; and we know many 

 in which a fire once in half a century, if it had burnt the 

 buildings only, would have been a benefit to the property. 

 And this state of things is not peculiar to agriculture. 

 What manufactory is there in England to which buildings 

 erected half a century ago are not a nuisance, and an im- 

 pediment to the successful prosecution of the concern ? 

 We are much too apt to attempt to impose our wisdom on 

 succeeding generations. We see plans for making farm- 

 buildings fire-proof. What can be more absurd than any 

 considerable expense incurred for that object, when you 

 must have such inflammable articles as straw and hay on 

 the premises, and when a wheat-stack containing 100 

 quarters is, even at present prices, of more value than a 



