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which gave on an average, twenty-five quarts of milk each per day. 

 Mr. Mills has a barn which reminds one of the stone edifices of 

 Lancaster, Penn. Its walls are two feet thick, one hundred and 

 fifty feet long, and forty-five feet wide, two stories high. The first 

 floor has one hundred spacious stalls for cows, each in perfect or- 

 der. A chain attached to the middle of the manger below the curb, 

 is passed over the neck of each cow, and secured by a key passing 

 through a link, leaving the head of the cow at liberty. Channel 

 ways of plank, lead off all the urine to a vat below the surface of 

 the ground, made of stone, cemented on the inside, and decked over 

 with plank; having a trap door to draw it out, or for a pump. This 

 vat is twenty feet long, eight feet wide, and ten deep; and is now 

 more than half full of urine. This he sprinkles over some of his 

 crops; and the effect of its energy on broad-cast corn crop was ob- 

 served by your committee to be very strikingly fertilizing. 



We remarked that the crops of wheat, barley, rye, clover and tim- 

 othy raixed, had filled their respective fields to the level of the stone 

 fences, looking as if they afforded a full heaped measure of crop. 

 We examined an eight acre lot of wheat, which had been seeded 

 down with lucerne. The lucerne was thriving, and the wheat esti- 

 mated to be a crop of thirty bushels per acre; having very strong 

 stalks. This lot was manured w-ith city street sweepings, and best barn 

 yard manure. The wheat was Mediterranean, raised here two years 

 ago. The standing crop was planted in frosty weather, in the latter 

 part of last October, did not come up till sp;ing, and was ploughed 

 in about four inches deep. 



We examined a five acre lot of corn growing well, which had 

 thelime used in a glue factory put into the hills. 



Another lot of twelve acres of corn, was manured with peat or 

 muck, from Jamaica Pond, and also some of the glue factory lime. 

 This field is very promising. The lime used was mixed, one of lime 

 to five of muck. 



We examined two five acre lots of hay, bearing heavy crops; a 

 clover field, the second growth this season, very strong and beauti- 

 ful crop. 



Also a nine and an half acre lot of white flint Jersey wheat, a 

 strong growth, estimated at twenty-five bushels per acre. This field 

 bore last year nineteen hundred bushels of potatoes, which were sold 

 for an average of fifty six cents the bushel. Mr. Mills sowed here 



