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saw a more comfortable covering for cattle, nor a better foundation 

 for a corn mow, and under the supposition of its being threshed in 

 the summer mont! Sj no possible inconvenience can attend it, for 

 the staddle is cleared, and ready for harvest to take another burthen. 

 The next, and not the least important appendage of these farms, 

 are pools or reservoirs of water; for on hills so elevated, few springs 

 can be expected. Nothing more strongly verifies the truth of the 

 old adage, " Necessity is the mother of invention," than the skill 

 exhibited by the masons of this district in buildings of this nature. 

 Scarely ever do these pools let through the water, and the cost, 

 supposing it to be of the following dimensions forty feet long, six- 

 teen wide, and six feet deep in the middle, may be thus stated. 



Digging out for foundation ........ 2 2. o 



N. B. In most instances this will furnish a sufficient 

 quantity of stone for the building 



Masons labour 10 10 o 



300 Bushels of lime 300 



10 Load of clay 100 



8 Load of coal ashes 080 



17 00 



A pool of these dimensions, if properly situated, will supply 80 

 or 100 acres with a sufficiency of water for the stock throughout 

 the year ; and if well made, may be kept in repair for sixpence a 

 year. 



As Time is the grand manure of this district, by which the im- 

 provements of cultivation are in a great measure brought about, 

 kilns for burning it are numerous, and generally thought well con- 

 structed; their form is that of a French bottle, the height 16 or 

 17 feet, the length of the neck, in which the calcination is wholly 

 effected, 8 or 9 feet ; its diameter 4 feet, and the diameter of the 

 belly in the largest part 1 2 feet* They are built on the side of a 

 hill, by which means the top is on a level with the adjacent rocky 

 and the cost is as follows : 



K Digging 



