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TDE FARMERY. 



[Chap. III. 



will avail themselves of its benefits. Many larniers have chestnut or cedar, 

 the best of timber, which they could liave prepared at very small expense by 

 their own hands, and get an aqueduct that would, in ease of sale of the farm, 

 pay teu'times its cost; and it woidd lie M-orth still more to the owner, fur it 

 wmdd afibrd him a constant enjoyment. 



There is a very curious manufactory of wooden aqueduct pipes at Elmira, 

 N. Y. A large pine log is cut up into a scries of pipes, from an iiicii lioro 

 to ten or twelve inches, taking one out of tlic otlier, leaving the sides from 

 one to two inches thick. These pipes are then banded with hoop-iron, drawn 

 by a powerful machine through hot coal-tar, and being buried l)elow the 

 action of the atmosphere, are expected to last for an indefinite period. 



SECTIOX X^^II.-STACKING AND STORING GRAIN ; CORN-CRIBS, PIG- 

 GERIES, AND PIG-FEEDING ; SMOKE-HOUSES, AND CURING BACON. 



jLTIIOUGH, like most of our subjects, these are 

 treated briefly, each is worthy of notice, and must 

 have enough, if nothing more, to attract attention, 

 so as to incite the reader to look further into the 

 matter. 

 One of the indispensable buildings of a farmery is a 

 good storehouse for grain. Upon a small farm, a room 

 in the barn can be set apart for the storage of small 

 grain, but it is more liable to the dejiredations of rats 

 and mice than in a building made purposely for a gran- 

 ary. Every farmer who annually raises a hundred 

 bushels of ears of Indian corn can not afford to do 

 without a corn-crib, because corn can not be stored 

 safely except in a room with very open sides. 



34.2. f orn-Cribs. — TJic best kind of a corn-crib is a 

 building twenty feet wide, and of such length as will give suflicicnt capacity 

 — say thirty feet long — for a farm where ten to twenty acres of corn arc 

 usually grown. The sides should not be less than ten feet high, and boarded 

 up and down with strips two inches wide, one inch apart. Six feet from the 

 sides, partitions are made in the same way. This leaves a drive-way eight 

 feet wide, so that you can drive in a wagon-load of corn and throw it right 

 and left over the beam into the crib. This drive-way should be made to close 

 at both ends with slat-gates, or lattice-work gates, so as to allow a free cir- 

 culation of air. 



34:3. Rail-Pen forn-CribSt — Crilibing corn, after the "Western fashion, in 

 open rail-pens, is considered down East a very slovenly method. Yet it is 

 one of the best ways in -which it can be stored. It is true it wastes a little 



