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season, kept his cows in the barn, from the time of driving them 

 for milking in the afternoon until they were turned out, after 

 being milked, in the morning. During the spring and former 

 part of the summer, the feed being good, the cows came to the 

 barn full, and required no additional food. After the feed of the 

 pasture became short, in consequence of the dry weather, the 

 cows had given to them in the barn some green corn, which 

 had been sowed for fodder. Mr. Hammond has sold his milk 

 for many years, and he thinks that his cows have never done 

 better than the present year, and he has saved a large amount of 

 manure, in all its strength, and all the urine, during the time, 

 which formerly was lost, and that this saving of the solid and 

 liquid manure has been greatly beyond a fair compensation for 

 any additional trouble in thus feeding his cows. It would be 

 wrong to leave this barn, which might well serve as a model for 

 those who may have occasion to construct such a necessary 

 building, without further notice of it above the sills. The 

 barn floor, in its length of ninety feet, enables the owner to 

 have several loads of hay to stand on the wheels at the same 

 time, secure from rain ; an important advantage on the sudden 

 approach of a shower, with other hay in the field to be taken 

 care of, and, towards the close of the season, may be filled up in 

 part with hay, straw, or fodder, if more room is wanted, instead 

 of stacking out, to the great detriment of the food. The width 

 of this barn, as well as its length, and the height of the posts, 

 give it great capacity for holding hay, and with that it was 

 well filled. 



The Committee proceeded to view the crop of carrots of Mr. 

 Wheeler. The drought had severely aflected the field, being of 

 a light gravelly soil ; the tops, the growth of the summer, had 

 perished, and a new growth had commenced, and the whole ap- 

 pearance was unfavorable to any prospect of a premium. The 

 disappointment of Mr. Wheeler has doubtless prevented him 

 from making any further communication in relation to this 

 crop. 



From the land of Mr. Wheeler, the committee proceeded to the 

 field of D. Waldo Lincoln ; his crop was in a very flourishing 

 condition ; it had not apparently suffered from the effects of the 



