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garden and other land about the buildings. The surplus wat- 

 er from the above trough, is conducted through another lead 

 pipe under ground to a second trough in the barn cellar, and 

 the waste water from this trough passes off in an under-drain 

 to the field below the barn. 



I have also erected this season another building, fifty by six- 

 teen feet, and sixteen feet post, adjoining the north east corner 

 of the barn, fitted with seven double stalls, each six and a 

 half feet wide, for tieing with chains fourteen cows, and a 

 rack to receive the hay from the loft above, and a light box 

 under the rack for grain or cut feed, with a basement beneath 

 built partly of stone and wood, the bottom being on a level 

 with the barn yard and barn cellar, and is used for receiving 

 the manure from the cows, except a passage way for carting 

 the manure from the barn yard and cellar. This building and 

 the preceding, are boarded and painted in a similar style to 

 the barn, and with slated roofs. These two buildings with 

 the barn, enclose three sides of the yard, leaving it open to 

 the south east only, thus making a yard with the cellar, about 

 ninety feet square, well protected from the cold winds and 

 storms. 



I have likewise built the present season, a piazza on the 

 back side of my large dwelling house, and a wood house at- 

 tached, thirty by eight feet ; also, a small house on the island, 

 twenty-five by eighteen feet, one and a half stories high, and 

 have dug and bricked a well twenty-five feet deep ; repaired 

 and fitted the island barn for tieing up twenty head of cattle, 

 and enclosed a suitable yard for the same. 



I have built and painted the present season, seventy-eight 

 rods of picked fence, the materials being wholly chestnut ; and 

 ninety-four rods of fence, with all chestnut posts, and four 

 rails high ; about two thirds of the rails are spruce, and one 

 third chestnut, six inches wide, and one and one quarter thick, 

 and well nailed. The posts were all set three or more feet 

 deep. Rocks in this immediate vicinity being scarce, created 

 the necessity of erecting so much fence of wood. 



I have laid two hundred and ninety feet of lead pipe to car- 

 ry the water for the use of the cattle, into a brick trough 



