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man of common prudence, who knows how to treat a cow as 

 a cow and a horse as a horse. Full histructions, with neces- 

 sary precautions, come with the material, and if desired, a 

 man is sent to give practical illustrations. 



Havino; reduced our boulders to frao:ments that cattle can 

 handle, what shall we do with them? For myself I have no 

 market for them ; having used up all needed for cellars, there 

 still remain thousands of tons to be handled. My way of 

 handling them is set forth in the wisdom of the old proverb, 

 "make one hand wash the other." I need, as every farmer 

 does, or should need, more or less soil for my compost heaps, 

 amounting to some hundreds of cords annually. Having 

 used all the waste that ditches and other resources afforded, 

 I was driven to my pasture land, and had begun to make 

 unsightly holes that pained me to look at, — when a resource 

 occurred to me in the various roadways of the farm, leadiug 

 to the different fields. I remove the surface soil as deep as 

 of value (and for compost a portion of sand or hard-pan 

 does no harm as an absorber of liquids), then dig a suffi- 

 cient depth into the gravel to receive the boulders, tumble 

 them in, fill up the spaces between with the smaller rocks, 

 which I take from some of the too many walls, level off with 

 the smaller stones, and finish with the gravel thrown out of 

 the roadway. I could not afford to blast these boulders to 

 make a roadway, nor to make a roadway simply to get rid of 

 these boulders ; but the compost material is the happy make- 

 save — while at the same time I get a splendid road, complete- 

 ly underdrained, that knows nothing of the coming or going 

 of frost, but is always as magnificent a road bed as the fa- 

 mous highwa3'^s of the ancient Romans. If it were merely a 

 question of sinking boulders and thus disposiiig of them, I 

 question whether this would notibc the still more economical 

 way of management ; for I have found when single stones 

 are handled in this way, to make sure of getting them at the 

 right depth below the reach of the plough, it is necessary to 

 dig a hole much larger than the boulder; whereas, in the ex- 



