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way, or cnn be easily obtained, we should no longer hear 

 so mm\y dismal complaints, ot short crcp^, and worn 

 out lands. The i'ace of the country would soon be sur- 

 priringiy improved. 



preservation cf manures. It is well observed in the 

 American Farmer., that the careful preservauon, and 

 suitai:le application, of manures, form one of the best 

 criterians of a good farmer. Without atteniion to these, 

 in old cultivated districts like ours, lauds must become 

 impoverished, and tiiiage an unprotitabie branch of hus- 

 bandry. 



The prevalent errors, observes Mr. BueU in the econ- 

 omy of manures, are a want of properly constructed 

 farm yards ; a neglect to stable or yard stock during- 

 some of our winter weather; and a waste of straw, 

 stalks, and other vegetable litier. We seldom see 

 among us yards so constructed as to retain the iJuids 

 which are produced in them. On the contrary, cattle 

 yards are often located with the a[. parent intention of 

 being drained into an adjoining field, a neighboring 

 brook, or the highway ; and we frequently see them 

 destitute of any substantial and permanent enclosures. 

 The practice of feeding cattle at stacks, remote from the 

 farm yard, occasions a waste of fodder, a great loss of 

 manure, and serious injury frequently to grass grounds, 

 by the poaching of the catties feet. The waste of 

 green and dry litter, is a still more serious injury to 

 good husbandry. Straw, and stalks and hu«ks of Indian 

 corn are often fed in open fields, or suffered to waste ia 

 heaps; while the practice is very general to permit 

 weeds of all kinds, after the crop is harvested, to ripen 

 and shed their seeds upon the fields, to the ver}' serious 

 injury of future crops. 



Experience points out that a barn-yard should be a 

 little hollowed. Its principal use, besides that of hold- 

 ing the dung, being to bring the rain water failing with- 

 in the yard into the state of stagnation, and to let it pass 

 off superficially, so as to prevent any thing of a cur- 

 rent from carrying away the dung, either in a mas«;, or 

 thick fluid condition ; merely suffering the more watery 

 particles to run off into a reservoir or receiver, con- 

 structed for the purpose, or into adjoining cultivated 

 fields. 



