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"REQUISITES AND EVIDENCES OF GOOD FARMING." 



1st. A good soil, well tilled, and kept free of various weeds, both 

 on the fields and the roads. 



2d. Lots well fenced, and suited in number to the size of the 

 farm. 



3d. Substantial and convenient barns and stables of sufficient 

 dimensions to contain the produce of the farm, and to comfortably 

 house the cattle kept on it. 



4th. A judiciously arranged dwelling, in neat condition, with a well 

 and filtering cistern. 



5th. Convenient buildings to facilitate the economical management 

 of the farm ; among which may be enumerated a wood house, a 

 wagon and tool house, a work shop, a granary and corn house, a 

 convenient piggery, an ice house, ash and smoke house, all secured 

 against decay by being well raised from the ground and neatly 

 painted or whitewashed. 



6th. Convenient yards attached to the barns and stables, so 

 arranged as to prevent wastage of the liquid manure, well sheltered 

 from the blasts of winter, and provided with water for the cattle. 



7 th. Door yards laid with grass and flower beds, and shaded by 

 ornamental trees, indicating to the passer-by the dwelling of taste, 

 health and comfort. 



8th. A kitchen garden highly cultivated, and containing every 

 species of vegetable that can be raised in our climate, with strawberry 

 and asparagus beds. 



9th. A fruit garden or orchard, where choice apples, cherries and 

 plums are carefully cultivated, and where can be found neat rows of 

 raspberry, gooseberry, blackberry and currant bushes. 



