the highways, admiflible here. A fubftitute, adapted 

 to our fiiiAll farms, may perhaps be obtained in this 

 'way : — As foon as all the manure is removed from 

 the barn yard, in the ipring, carry into it any kind 

 ot earth mofl eafily attainable, and cover it two or 

 three inches thick. At the end of every two weeks 

 [better if done weekly — but this might be thought 

 too minute and troublefome] add another cover of 

 an inch or two of earth By the laft of September 

 there would thus be collected a mafs of manure from 

 eight to twelve inches thick, over the whole barn- 

 yard. And while the dung and urine of the cattle 

 vi^ould thus be in a good degree fecured againft lofs 

 by evaporation, the cattle would always find (what 

 they invariably feekfor) a clean bed to lie on. If at 

 '^' the times for (owing turnip feed, or winter rye, or 

 wheat manure be wanting, it will be in the barn 

 yard well prepared for thofe purpofes. A thin coat 

 of ftraw. or utlier litter, at the bottom, and a thin 

 fprinklinn: of it under every frefh layer of earth, 

 micTht be ufeful to prevent the latter being trod into 

 hard cake< ; while it would abforb a part of the urine, 

 and be itfeU dr>nverted into good manure. The ma- 

 nure made by hogs in pens may be increafed and 

 preierv@d in the fame way, and by the addition of 

 aH the weeds and refufe vegetables which can be col- 

 leded. 



LIYE-STOCK. 



In order to encourage the procuring and propa- 

 gating (>f improved breeds of cattle, ilieep and fwine, 

 the frullees of the State Society of Agriculture have 

 infiituted an annual fhow of thefe animals, and given 

 premiums for thofe deemed the bcft. I view it as a 

 valuable infliiution. But, with great deference,,'-! 



