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One that is kept for covering 

 should be well shaped. See the 

 article Horse. 



He should be free from every 

 kind of distemper and natural 

 blemish, of a middle size at least, 

 with a good gait, neither addicted 

 to starting and stumbling, and of 

 such a colour as is most coveted. 

 For it may be justly expected, that 

 the colts will inherit the qualities 

 of the horse, let them be good or 

 bad. 



STEAM-BOILER. This is an 

 implement which is very simple 

 and so useful that no farmer ought 

 to be without it. The following is 

 a description of its construction. 



A steam boiler is commonly 

 made by setting a kettle holding 

 twelve gallons or more in a furnace 

 of brick or stone, and over this a 

 hogshead, with one head taken 

 out and the other bored full of 

 holes, is set so close that the steam 

 of the kettle when boiling, can only 

 rise through the holes, and thence 

 ascend among the articles to he 

 boiled in the hogshead and pass off 

 at the top. In this way a hogs- 

 head of potatoes will be nearly as 

 soon boiled as a small part of them 

 could have been, if placed in the 

 kettle underneath. 



As the kettle must be so closed 

 as to prevent any steam from pass- 

 ing off, but through the bottom of 

 the hogshead or vat, a pipe or tube 

 must be set one side, through which 

 with the aid of a funnel the water is 

 to be poured into the kettle as of- 

 ten as occasion may require. When 

 poured in, the tube is to be stopped 

 with a plug for that purpose. 



Grain oif all kinds may be steam 



boiled to great advantage, for feed- 

 ing and fatting cattle ; but in that 

 case, it is requisite to have the 

 bottom of the hogshead covered 

 with a cloth, to prevent the grain 

 rutming down through the holes. 



By experiments which have been 

 accurately made in Pennsylvania 

 upon Indian corn and potatoes, 

 Used for fatting swine, it was found 

 that they increased in weight one 

 third faster on the boiled, than on 

 the unboiled food ; or, in other 

 words, they gained three pounds 

 when fed on the former, where they 

 only gained two pounds when fed 

 on the latter. 



STERCORARY, a store of dung, 

 or compost, kept under cover : 

 Also the building in which it is 

 kept. 



In these places, if they are well 

 constructed, the manure will retain 

 its whole strength. The dung so 

 preserved, if I mistake not, will be 

 of double the value of that which 

 is managed in the common way. 

 For it is secured effectually from 

 washing rains, and drying winds ; 

 as well as secluded from the direct 

 influence of the sun, which always 

 causes a copious evaporation from 

 uncovered dunghills. 



To make a stercorary, Mr. Eve- 

 lyn directs, to dig a square or ob- 

 long pit, of a size proportioned to 

 the compost wanted, with the side 

 towards the field sloping, so as to 

 receive a cart, to load or unload 

 easily : The bottom to be well 

 paved, and the sides also made so 

 tight as to hold water, the whole 

 being under cover. Then the far- 

 mer's care must be to fill the pit 

 with compost suited to the nature 

 of his land. 



