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surplus rain water off from his deposit. He made rich manures, 

 as his fine crops testified. 



Dr. Wellington on one occasion had his attention very strongly 

 drawn to a rich verdure in barren land. It was a narrow strip, 

 and he found it to have been moistened with water running from 

 a dead cow, whose blood, &c., mixed with the water, and thus fer- 

 tilized the sterile track in which it flowed. And a knoll of bar- 

 ren land rendered rich by the swill wash and the barilla, &c., on 

 it. When the salt ley of the soap factory, near, was first spread 

 over that knoll, it made it entirely barren for about three years. 

 The Bolton lime works show by some of their refuse spread over 

 adjacent land, a fine growth of sod. 



Dr. Waterbury.— I have fed stock with roots and some uncut 

 hay, and they consumed the whole. 



Mr. Bergen — I have entertained the opinion that the beast 

 should, according to his nature, be allowed to run the ground I 

 to use his legs ! 



Dr. Waterbury — And yet that is a mistake. He is much better 

 ofif for us and himself when he is properly kept up. 



Mr. Bergen — I suppose then that I labor under an old mistaken 

 prejudice. I suppose that the best work done after all is by our 

 heads. , . 



Mr. Lawton — Most farmers talk of the charm of shade trees in 

 pastures to shelter stock from the heat of the sun. Our President 

 Mr. Pell, is a capital practical observer, and he does not believe 

 in that notion; but that the stock love all the sun that a summer 

 provides for them. 



Solon Robinson — The southern colored laborers find the heat of 

 the field healthy, so that when one is taken sick they lay him in 

 the hot sun to make him well again. 



Mr. Meigs had remarked in Georgia, nearly sixty years ago, 

 that on a very hot morning the colored mothers commonly took 

 their little children to the sunny-side of buildings, where they 

 rubbed their naked bodies all over with a piece of fat pork, so 

 that the little fellows glistened like so many clean polished black 

 glass bottles. 



