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closed at the end. By these means the box is filled 

 from the reservoir and pump, and each part succes- 

 sively irrigated, perfectly and with great ease. A man 

 by two days labour, can irrigate my whole cellar, and 

 if effectually done, twice in a season is sufficient. 



I have been thus minute, because I thought the de- 

 tail would not be unpleasing to you, and that I owed 

 it to the interest you expressed in my project." 



I have known several stercoraries under barns, suc- 

 ceed satisfactorily to the proprietors of them. Those 

 the best ventilated, were the most profitable. All were 

 subject to dry rot ; in a greater or less degree. Yet the 

 farmers confidently alleged, that even the dry rotted 

 dung, was superior, in effect, to that left exposed in 

 the farm yard. I cannot speak so favourably of it. 



R. P. 



