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and turnips stored in barrels with a little loam or sand> 

 waiting for the market, are kept in the cool barn cellar 

 where the temperature is much of the time but just 

 above freezing. In this way they are kept fresh until 

 warm Aveather, if not wanted before. The wet lands 

 he is improving by means of drains, of which there was 

 much need, and still is to some extent. 



Sept. 26. Two of the Committee went over Elm Dale 

 farm again. Found Mr. P. with his help, at work laying 

 a drain to carry off the surface water from about the 

 buildings to the main drain. Ditch two and a half to 

 three feet deep, a culvert at bottom covered with stones 

 broad enough to span some ten inches ; fill up partly 

 with cobble stones, then some coarse stuff, such as 

 brakes, weeds, &c., and cover up with loam. The peas 

 had been harvested, about thirty bushels, and a crop of 

 turnips growing upon the same ground. Corn looks 

 well for this season ; the severe frost of the fifteenth 

 inst. having been less severe in that immediate vicinity 

 than in any other place noticed by us, much of it is 

 quite fresh and green. Barn well filled with hay, got 

 in in good condition. We noticed the tools were of the 

 best kind, and every thing in place. The mowing 

 machine and horse-rake were there. [For a particular 

 account of crops and expenses we refer to his " state- 

 ment" and account kept with the farm by Mr. Pitts.] 

 We earnestly invite the attention of every farmer to 

 this account, kept in a regular, business-like way. If 

 every one would adopt and carry out this plan, how 

 many would abandon some modes of cultivation, or some 

 crops, which have been supposed to be profitable, but 

 which the account might prove to have been far other- 



