42 MR. Oliver's address. 



Every thing around you shall be bettered. That rickety old 

 barn, which the winds of Heaven, and the rains and the snows 

 have desolated and rendered unfit to pretend to house the 

 shivering cattle that deserve a better fate, shall no longer dis- 

 grace you its owner, and the ground it stands on. You will 

 supply the beasts that faithfully serve you, with comfortable 

 quarters, remembering that the more thoroughly you secure 

 them from the cold of winter, the less food they will require. 

 "For it is well known, that the extra supply of heat needed 

 by animals in cold weather, if not supplied by warm housing, 

 must be supplied by an extra consumption of food, and yet 

 this extra food adds nothing to the flesh or strength of the 

 animals." — Doivning's '■'■Country Houses.^^ 



Cleanliness will also characterize its interior, and you will 

 be sure that all the manure shall be thrown into its appropri- 

 ate place, and none of it be allowed to accumulate and stick 

 upon the flanks of your oxen and cows, injuring their health, 

 and insuring to yourself the reputation of being a nasty sloven. 



That uncared-for piggery, that slough of despond, that stew 

 of stercoraceous stench, that Serbonian bog of fathomless filth 

 and miasmatic putrescence, in which your bedaubed swine strug- 

 gle and wallow ; and that unsightly quagmire of needless nas- 

 tiness, in which an unsympathizing slovenliness compels the 

 " lowing sweet-breathed kine" to slump, and wives and daugh- 

 ters to wade, ancle-deep, as they toil to reach the " milky- 

 way," — these shall both disappear, to give place to accommo- 

 dations which, combining neatness with utility, shall be at 

 once agreeable to the eyes, and just as profitable to you, if not 

 more so, as laboratories and store-houses of your indispensable 

 compost. This same spirit of improvement will exhibit itself 

 all over your farm. You will have better stock, better trees, 

 better fruits, better grains and vegetables, better fields, and 

 fences, and walls, — better people about you, better neighbors, 

 and yourself and household be better themselves and betterers 

 of the whole community. 



Farmers of Essex : 

 The subject upon which I have addressed you, no mind caln 



