102 FARMS, 



and yot, if it be still true as Professor Silliman found it in England 

 in 1805, that the female mind when overthrown, is more desperate, 

 more incurable, as a general thing, than that of males, then the 

 arrangement is a wise one surely. This Asylum is for the incurable 

 only, those upon whom medical skill at Worcester and Somerville 

 has been found to be unavailing. Small as the number is for the 

 population of Essex county, it is a sight fearful to behold, and one 

 that no visitor can either wish to repeat or to prolong. 



The average number of inmates in the Asylum and House of 

 Correction in 1854, was 211. 



The sewerage of the buildings flows as it should, into a common 

 reservoir, but there, unfortunately, as it should not, it receives the 

 salt water of the river through the fissures of the rocky bed of the 

 reservoir. It is obvious too, that if the river water can come in, 

 the sewerage can leak out, even though the mass appears about as 

 wet as it ought to be, yet there must have been an exchange of the 

 most valuable materials from the sewer, for the sea-salt water of 

 the river. Sewerage when unmixed is more powerful, usually, 

 than Ae purest guano, and not a particle should be allowed to 

 escape. It is presumed that the bottom will be cemented or a new 

 locality found, before many years. Should not the county author- 

 ities provide for the evil at once ? 



Farm of Uj^hraiiJi Broivn, situated upon Marlleliead Nech, so 

 called, in 3Iarblehead. 



It need not be said that the productiveness of this farm has been 

 a frequent topic of remark for some years. To those whose manures 

 have been found somewhere in that long list enumurated by Mr. 

 Richardson in 1854, where " forest leaves, chips, shavings, earth 

 from the poultry yard, pigeon house and ash bins, scraps of leather, 

 and coal ashes," were but small specimens,— the crops of Mr. 

 Brown have indeed been incredible. While Mr B. has not neglected 

 his barn-cellar and barn yard, for they both show that they have 

 had the most careful attention, yet so happily is his farm located, 

 and so wide awake is Mr. B. to the value of sea manure, that all 

 the wealth of his land may be referred to that one word of Mr. 

 Richardson, '''- i^recious kelp.'''' 



It is no disparagement to farmers remote from the sea-shore, that 

 they resort to the humbler and scantier means of making manures ; 



