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mer and winter, an arrangement practised by several judicious farmers, 

 and which ought to be adopted by every farmer. Thus nothing 

 is lost, and a great amount of manure is accumulated. The erection 

 is an expensive one, and beyond the means of most New England 

 farmers ; but its conveniences may be advantageously copied at a 

 reasonable cost. The barn floor, 14 feet in width, runs the whole 

 length of the building ; the haymows are on one side, and the stalls 

 and stables on the opposite side, with scaffoldings over them. The 

 roof is of a very steep pile!), and two successive scaffoldings are 

 over the barn floor, for the reception of straw and coarse fodder. 

 Thus no room is lost. Frames likewise are so placed, that a large 

 amount of corn stalks may be cured in a green state ; and in this 

 condition are inferior to no kind of dried fodder, which can be given 

 to cattle. A large shed, the whole length of the barn, is projected 

 on one side for the reception and protection of wagons and farming 

 implements. 



FARMING IMPLEMENTS. 



The Essex plough, built in Danvers, where the mould boards are 

 cast in two different sizes, is not surpassed by any one within my 

 observation for ease of draught, and manner of executing the work, 

 especially in greensward. Whether the right shape of a mould- 

 board in this case, be matter of accident or calculation, it has been 

 exactly reached. The objections to many cast-iron ploughs, are 

 the shortness of the mould-board, by which the sod is often broken 

 off before it is completely turned over, and falls back into the fur- 

 row ; or the concave rather than wedge-like form of the mould- 

 board, by which the resistance is greatly increased, the furrow slice 

 is rather shoved forward than raised up ; or a form of mould-board, 

 by which it is curled over rather than laid flat. These objections 

 do not at all apply to the Essex plough. 



In some parts of the county, the side hill plough with a changea- 

 ble mould-board is used for all ploughing. It saves considerable 

 time in turning at the corner of a field, and it avoids a dead furrow 

 in the center. 



