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as toothers. It will be eeen that by availing of 

 the right, many of our most careful and conscien- 

 tious suhscribers may save ihemselvcs the ex- 

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 letters containing remitlances (brsuhscriplion — and 

 thai others, less careful and scrupulous, who sub- 

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 may thus easily save him as well as ihemselves 

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 above regulation, and which may be written in 

 advance by the subscriber, to save the postmaster 

 even that little trouble, is contained in the follow- 

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"$ enclosed, on account of sub- 

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 ceived at [or to be sent, if a new subscriber, to] 

 P. O." 



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 tial information that is very often omitted in letters 

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lication. For want of this information, (when 

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 little more care and precision in giving orders 

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FAUfll -YARDS. MEADOW. MANURING. PRESKRVATION OF TIMBER. FLESH CONVERTED TO 



MANURE. 



For the Farmers' Uegister. 

 The above is a fac simile of my horse and cat- 

 tle yards, meadow, natural streams and conduits. 

 These have been constructed and used about six 

 years, and I cannot conceive how they could be 

 improved, either as relates to structure or econo- 

 my. A, B, C, is a natural stream running through 

 the centre of meadow; F, is anothe7 natural 

 stream, which is eniplied into the centre of the 

 reservoir, G. H, and thence into the larger stream, 

 A, B, C, either through H, I, or G, as retiuired. 

 In this reservoir is caught the mould uiid vegeta- 

 ble matter brought in by the stream, F;'^also 

 when the stream A, B, C, is smaller, it flows 

 through (;, H, I, and deposits mud. 'JMie reser- 

 voir is nothing more than a ditch about 130 leet 

 long, 8 leet wide, and when emi)ty 5 leet deep; 

 yielding wiien excavated, and annually afierwanl, 

 about 175 ox-cart loads of rich mould. Finding 



this mould very valuable as a manure, particularly 

 when composted in the stock yards, I have de- 

 termined on cutting another reservoir D, E, on 

 the stream A, B, C, of above double the length 

 of G, H, which will yield about 3-50 loads annu- 

 ally, ail of which being adjacent to my yards, a 

 meadow, and lour grain fielils, I can with but lit- 

 tle labor, use when and where I please. 



At F, there is a spring of good water, which is 

 conveyed under ground by means of bored logs to 

 a stop faucet marked X, where it is taken as re- 

 quired lor domestic [)urposee. Thence the water 

 continues under ground to an open (aucet, and falls 

 into a trouj/h, one-half of which trough is in 

 the hors-e yard (a,) and the other half in the cow 

 yard (b). Inside of the cow yard, the water 

 descends into another set of bored logs and is con- 

 veyed to another trough, where the calves (c) 

 and steers (d) drink. From thence the remain- 



