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from the fence or beginning. This is the heap row. Fifteen 

 feet from the end of this row, the first heap, or half the load 

 is deposited ; it is raked out by removing the hind gate of the 

 body. Thirty feet from this, on the same row, the second 

 heap is made by tumbling the body, when all the manure 

 slips out, and the further trouble of unloading is saved. The 

 following simple diagram, of a single acre, shows the simplicity 

 and perfection of this mode of operation at a moment's view. 

 Any overseer can understand it in a minute's time, and a ne- 

 gro of ordinary intelligence is enabled to do the work, without 

 any difficulty or inconvenience. 



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EXPLANATION. The stars represent the heaps of manure, 

 each containing ten bushels, placed in the centre of squares 

 of 900 square superficial feet giving forty -nine to each acre. 



Thus it is seen with what perfect regularity and uniformity 



