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siderable experience in the different kinds of roof- 

 ing, and the best and cheapest I know of is to build 

 them of boards grooved and battened, the battens 

 also grooved, as shown in the illustration. 



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■Roof T5oavr ds . 



At Squawkie Hill, my present farm, I have forty- 

 two box stalls for brood mares and colts, and a cov- 

 ered enclosure, 22 by 120 feet, that was roofed in 

 this way in 1885, and is to-day (1900) in first-class 

 condition, and decidedly better than most of the 

 shingle roofs put on other buildings at the same time. 

 It has had but two coats of iron ore paint during 

 the time, looks well, and answers the purpose beauti- 

 fully. 



Liquid Manure. 



On the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, where the 

 science of agriculture is better understood than any- 

 where in the world, the farmer, whatever else he 

 possesses, is sure to have a liquid-manure cistern. 

 He thinks he cannot farm it without liquid manure, 

 and he is quite right. In the States we invariably 

 let all the liquid manure go to waste, and in its 

 place pay out annually (in the State of New York) 

 over $6,000,000 for commercial fertilizer, as already 

 shown; when if the liquid manure of the farms 

 through the State, that now goes to waste, was 



