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lienery, ice house, &c.) Some rods from the cottage, and on the 

 north side, he erected tlie barn, fronting south, into a basin- 

 shaped yard, connected, with a roof over it, of sufficient height to 

 allow the sun to strike under. On the south side of this yard is 

 the piggery, with sliding doors to connect with the barn-yard. 

 On the east and west sides of this yard, are gates, by which we 

 pass into one and drop the material for composting, and drive out 

 of the other. It will be seen, by the annexed statement, that a 

 good stock of hogs are kept through the year ; and we manage, by 

 scattering corn among the mud and manure, to make them per- 

 form most of the labor of composting. If they do not sufficiently 

 mix muck and manure, we shut up the hogs by the sliding doors, 

 and open both gates and plough through and through, and then 

 let them on again. The shed is covered, and no liquid but 

 urine being there, any deficiency of moisture is made up by 

 letting in Avatcr from a four thousand gallon cistern, supplied 

 from the roofs of the out-buildings. These are so arranged, that 

 the water is conducted from all of them into the cistern, which is 

 of wood, and stands above ground, at a sufficient height to dis- 

 charge water through a pipe into a trough in front of the cattle- 

 stalls ; and, also, when desirable, into the swill boiler. 



These improvements have all been so uniformly done in the 

 summer months, that but for the stock, no help would have been 

 re(|uired during the winter. There not having been, formerly, 

 stock enough on the place to fully occupy one man's time, a lot 

 of twenty acres (about half in wood) was purchased, with the 

 view of the laborer's time being employed in winter, and culti- 

 vating the other half, which was done with great success, which I 

 think wull be conceded by the Committee, when they examine the 

 annexed account of the results of the agricultural operations on 

 the hmited scale of the two pieces of land above mentioned. 



With the view of arriving at definite conclusions, as to the 

 profit of cultivating the different crops, I have caused to be en- 

 tered, every night, the labor and expense of each day, in a Farm 

 Record. From this book, I put the entries under the separate 

 heads, and have struck a balance, and transmit herewith a copy 

 of the same, embracing every entry in detail, which the Committee 

 are at liljerty to make such use of as they see fit. 



