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"I will take as an example my own case at Ogden Farm, 

 and will assume that I had (which is not true) a stream 

 of water at a sufficiently high level to be led into the barn 

 cellar (40x100), which has a capacity of about 200,000 

 gallons. This should ordinarily be kept nearly full of 

 water, and into it all manure should daily be thrown. 

 Care must be taken to ventilate the cellar thoroughly 

 with side windows, and to have the stable floor above it 

 quite tight. An arrangement 

 should be made to turn the 

 stream into the cellar, or back 

 again into its own channel at 

 will. Whenever manure was 

 required for that part of the 

 farm lying low enough to be 

 flooded from the cellar (about 

 one half of the whole), the gate 

 should be opened and the liq- 

 uid conducted to the field by 

 the system explained below. 

 At the same time enough wa- 

 ter should be admitted from 

 the brook to keep up the head 

 in the cellar. This, by its 

 flow, would make a movement in the mass sufficient to 

 stir up the sediment and foul the outgoing water. 

 The irrigation should be as frequent and as copious 

 as the supply of water would allow, and as the best 

 growth of the crops required. The water alone would 

 be very beneficial, and it would only be stronger or 

 weaker according to the extent to which it was em- 

 ployed. Of one thing we might be quite sure ; all the 

 manure it contained would be distributed in the most 

 perfect way possible, and there could be no waste. The 

 water would be an addition to its value there would be 

 no deduction in any way. A vast amount of labor would 

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