xl Notices for a Young Farmer, 



tipathy and disgust. Sheep-killing begins in wantonness, 

 and ends in vice ; and is a species of canine madness. The 

 confirmed blood-sucking sheep-killer, acquires a wild shrill 

 bark, different from that of other dogs. 



Shameful negligence in not burying dead carcasses, not 

 only reflects disgrace on those who permit such nuisances, 

 on other accounts ; but the dogs of a whole neighbourhood 

 are often ruined, by such temptations to savage propensities. 



XXII. Do not commence with erecting costly buildings; 

 but apply your time, efforts, and pecuniary means, to your 

 farm ; and shift on with tolerable accommodations, until your 

 fields warrant your providing better. Want of calculation 

 in this regard, when their funds have been limited, has in- 

 jured and depressed many beginners in farming; who have 

 erected expensive houses, which have exhausted their means 

 of improving their farms ; and capacious barns, with little to 

 store in them. If difficulties in their affairs compel them to 

 sell, they find, that, however expensive may have been the 

 buildings and accommodations, a poor farm must be parted 

 with at a very inferior price ; and the buildings are seldom 

 duly appreciated, in a calculation generally made on the value 

 per acre. When the farm becomes productive, it seldom, if 

 ever, happens, that the barn is too large. The most general 

 mistake is, that it is too small ; and most commonly, the floor 

 is too narrow for treading out crops with horses, or using 

 our simple machines for threshing ; which, (though not so 

 powerful,) are tolerable substitutes for the complicated and 

 expensive, however valuable, inventions, with which, in some 

 parts of Europe, grain is threshed out. In the moist coun- 

 tries of Europe wherein there are late harvests, stacking is 

 preferred to confining grain in barns, which is said to be in- 

 jurious on account of retaining dampness, and promoting 

 mouldiness in both grain and straw. But in our climate, 

 favouring early harvests, with generally fine weather, no 

 such consequences follow; and barns are all essential. In 

 the southern parts of our country, they are dispensed with 

 too negligently and unprofitably. The great farmers tread 

 out their grain from the harvest field, or from stacks, as 



