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The hay is put into the mows by means of a power-fork, by 

 unloading both right and left from the driveway floor, and by 

 so arranging the grade at the east end of the building that 

 vehicles loaded with hay may be unloaded by the power-fork 

 through large, high doors in the gable. 



He recommends that there should be no sheds on either flank 

 of the yard, as they exclude the sun when it is near the horizon, 

 but that it should be inclosed on the east and west by a close 

 board fence eight feet in height. 



He says that the yard should not be used for manufacturing 

 manure, but should be paved with good surface drainage to each 

 corner, and should be used only for sunning and exercising the 

 stock ; their dropping to be daily gathered up and placed in the 

 manure-house. No straw or stalks to be strewed in the yard, 

 nor any arrangements for feeding in the yard provided. All 

 food to be eaten in the stalls. If flowing water is obtainable, 

 he recommends to have it flow first into a tank or tub in the 

 root-vault, thence, by its overflow, to a tub in the centre of the 

 yard, taking its overflow in the ground out of the yard. 



Mr. W. stated that three years' experience with a manure- 

 cellar, under a stable and barn, satisfied him that this was a 

 very objectionable arrangement, and that he has never arranged 

 but one barn thus in his practice of twenty-five years, and that 

 he declines making plans for a building to be thus arranged, 

 even if it be erected under his protest. 



EVENING. 



The evening session was held in Palmer Hall, commencing at 

 7 o'clock. 



President Clark called the meeting to order, and Colonel 

 Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester, was elected chairman for 

 the evening. On taking his position upon the platform, he 

 addressed the audience as follows : — 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — It affords me great pleasure to be 

 here this evening, and to take a part in the proceedings. I have 

 long been a cultivator of fruit ; I have long desired to make it 

 so common that every man, woman and child of our country 

 should enjoy these choice blessings of Heaven. I am, therefore, 



