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all the farm buildings, from tlie dwelling house, and the percola- 

 tions from the manure heaps, are received into large covered tanks; 

 the water used on the premises for diluting is raised seventy feet, 

 and fiora a distance of four hundred yards. There are four ma- 

 nure tanks of the following dimensions in feet: 48xl4xl2j 

 48x14x15; 72x14x12; 72x17x12. There is a steam engine, 

 twelve horse power, which works fifty strokes per minute, con- 

 sumes fifteen hundred pounds of coal per day, and raises by the 

 pumps attached, eighty gallons of liquid per minute, and dis- 

 charges forty-eight thousand gallons in ten hours. He usesgutta 

 percha pipes, connected by union joints, which reach three hun- 

 dred yards every way round the hydrant. The discharge is from 

 a brass hand pipe, the jet reaches the ground in the form of a 

 shower, at a distance of fifty feet from the man in charge of the 

 pipe ; with the assistance of a boy to move the flexible hose, he 

 can cover ten acres in an ordinary day's work. He buys his gutta 

 percha pipe by the weight, and when worn out, it will sell for 

 sixteen cents per pound ; they general]}^ last with care two years. 

 Canvass hose pipe would be cheaper, and more lasting. The fol- 

 lowing is the capital account and working expenses for fertilizing 

 this farm : 



Tanks complete, $1 ,500 00 



Steam engine, 750 00 



Pumps, 400 00 



Iron pipes, laying, and hydrants, 5,000 00 



Gutta percha and distributing pipes, 280 00 



$7,930 00 



Annual interest on $7,930, at seven per cent., $555 10 



Annual wages, 520 00 



Fuel,. ,...„....,. 290 00 



$1,365 10 



Equal to an annual sum of about $2.30 per acre. 



From this land so manured, Mr. Kennedy cuts on an average, 

 70 tons of grass to the acre, annually, weighed green, and he finds 



