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she built the one, took care to provide the other. There are 

 few, " dismal swamps," or " sloughs of despond," about the farms 

 of New England. 



Another consideration, in undertaking an operation of this 

 kind, is, how far is it expedient to carry gravel or other materials 

 form the upland upon the surface of the meadow? Just so far, 

 we should say, as may be necessary to give the surface, after the 

 water is drained off, an operative firmness for sustaining the crops 

 • — and no further. We do not hold to spreading twice as much, 

 in covering the meadow, as it will be worth after it is covered ; 

 but would have all the operations in the process, conducted with 

 an economy that will pay ; at the same time, with a thorough- 

 ness that shall forever remove the meadow character from the 

 land. We are particular to notice this, because we have more 

 than once seen meacows pretended to be reclaimed, that would 

 not stay reclaimed. 



In our observations upon this class of lands, we have repeat- 

 edly witnessed the benefits of the application of fertilizing liquids, 

 much after the manner mentioned in the well drawn statement 

 of Mr. Page, of the meadow improved on the Danvers town farm. 

 If, as he proposes, the surplus fluids from the hog-yard and the 

 receptacles of fertilizing materials about the dwellings, can be 

 conducted and diffused over the two or three acres of grass land 

 near by, we cannot doubt they will be amply sufficient to keep 

 these lands in a condition capable of growing three or four tons 

 of grass to the acre annually. We have seen, the present sea- 

 son, a field of ten acres, adjacent to a stable, where a large stock 

 of animals was feed and stationed, so fertilized by the liquids ac- 

 cumulated in these stalls, as to add to the burden of grass at lest 

 one and a half tons to the acre, — that is, to cause the entire field 

 to yield three tons to the acre, when heretofore it has yielded only 

 half this amount. This was on the beautiful farm of Richard S. 

 Rogers, in Danvers, who while he expends, from his ample for- 

 tune, freely on his green houses and his fences by the way, ex- 



