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promptly as possible. By this means, the grain is at mar- 

 ket before the moth fly is grown sufficiently to injure the 

 flour ; and thus they have almost conquered that pest. And 

 this, in some degree, justifies their lack of farm buildings. 

 Save that in covers for their farm stock, they are lamentably 

 deficient. 



Let your dwelling house and its appendages, be to leeward, 

 (as it respects commonly prevailing winds, those in winter 

 especially, when fires are constant,) of your barn and stack- 

 yard ; and sufficiently distant from them to avoid accidents by 

 fire. Lights should be, as much as possible, forbidden in your 

 barn and stables ; and suffer not the reproach of omitting the 

 common guards to your buildings, against lightning. Their 

 being placed near water conveniences, may answer some pur- 

 poses ; but this should generally be avoided, especially if 

 streams be large and dull, or collected in stagnant pools. Low 

 and damp sites for dwelling houses, generally produce fatal 

 consequences to their occupants. Leading distant springs or 

 streams to your homestead, or digging wells, may be costly 

 and inconvenient ; but health and comfort are thereby en- 

 sured. When buildings and other improvements are placed 

 too near mill-dams, or rivers, and streams subject to Jloods; 

 repentance comes too late, after ruinous consequences have 

 been suffered by such want of foresight and calculation. 



Stables for horses should not be too close. Diseases arc 

 generated by confined air ; and horses kept too warm cannot 

 safely encounter cold and wet. Fatting cattle and sheep, in 

 sheds open to the south, and suffered, in good weather, to 

 run out in yards, are always hardy, healthy, and thriving. 

 Swine kept in too warm, and more so in filthy pens, are ever 

 subject to diseases and unprofitable feeding. There is no 

 greater mistake, than that of gorging swine, when first pen- 

 ned for fatting. They should, on the contrary, be moderately 

 and frequently fed 5 so that they be kept full, but do not 

 loathe or eject their food j and, in the end, contract fevers 

 and dangerous maladies, originating in a hot and corrupted 

 mass of blood; against some of which, dry rotten wood, as an 

 absorbent, and, some allege, smith's cinders, thrown in their 



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