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IV. Drainage and Embankments. 



1. Of tide marshes, and swamps. 



2. Of swamp or other low and wet lands, 

 higher than the tide. 



3. Drainage of arable, or high and firm lands, 

 for either surface water or springs, and by 

 either open or covered drains. 



V. Implements and Machines for Agricul- 

 tural operations. 



VI. Fencing and Enclosing. 

 V. Kinds and costs of fencing. 



2. Advantages and disadvantages of the se- 

 parate enclosing of each field, or each farm, 

 compared to dispensing with either or both — 

 and instead, confining live stock to enclosed 

 pastures, or herding them, especially in refer- 

 ence to hogs. 



VII. Grass husbandry, grazing, and green 

 or vegetable manuring crops. 



1. Natural Meadows on moist ground. 



2. Artificial (or sown) grasses on permanent 

 meadows or pastures. 



3. Artificial grasses, peas, or other green or 

 forage crops, alternated with tillage crops on 

 arable land. 



4. Mowing and hay. 



5. Crops of grass, peas, or weeds, left to 

 manure the land on which they grew. 



VIII. Live Stock. 



L Teams, or animals for labor. 



2. Animals reared and kept for their pro- 

 ducts, or fattened for sale or home consump- 

 tion, and their management. 



3. Animals purchased from abroad, and ge- 

 neral cost thereof. 



4j Comparative profits of hogs confined to 

 enclosed pastures, or to sties, and those rang- 

 ing at large. 



IX. Dairy management and products. 

 ■ 1. Products consumed or sold. 



2. Supplies of butter and cheese from 

 abroad. 



X. Manures. 



1. Cow-yard and stable manure, and other 

 stock supplies. Collection and choice of ma- 

 terials — preparation, application, and effects. 

 Fermented or unfermented manures. 



2. Straw, leaves, or other unmixed vegeta- 

 ble matters, unrotted when applied. 



3. Peat, marsh or swamp mud, as manure. 



4. Fossil shells or marl. 



5. Lime. 



6. Any supply of carbonate of lime from 

 other sources. 



7. Wood ashes — coal ashes. 



8. Bone dust, or phosphate of lime in other 

 materials. 



9. Gypsum. 



10. Guano. 



11. Any earths containing fertilizing ingre- 

 dients, and fit for manures. 



12. Any other neutral salts, or materials 

 containing them, useful for manuring. 



13. Composts of different manuring mate- 

 rials. 



XI. Orchards and their products, Vine- 

 yards, Vegetable Gardens supplying products 

 for sale generally and extensively. 



XII. Wood-land. 



1 . General description of the growth of dif- 

 ferent kinds of lands. 



2. Uses and value of timber and other pro- 

 ducts. 



3. Proportion of farms necessary to be kept 

 under wood. 



4. Disadvantages and cost of excess of wood- 

 land to agriculture. 



XIII. Old and bad practices, and neiv or 

 recently introduced processes or improved prac- 

 tices in agriculture. 



XIV. Notices o?- suggestions of new or 

 neglected resources for agricultural improve- 

 ment. 



XV. Obstacles to agricultural improvement 

 ancVprofit. 



1. Obstacles opposed by natural and una- 

 voidable circumstances. • 



2. Obstacles caused by erroneous govern- 

 mental policy, or by omission of proper legis- 

 lation. 



3. Obstacles caused by individual action or 

 neglect. 



XVI. Unhealthiness of residents, causdd 

 by climate and condition of the country and 

 its agriculture. 



1. Local sources of malaria, their exten^ 

 operation and degrees of malignity — such as 

 rapid streams sometimes overflowing the bor- 

 dering land — tide- water marshes, fresh or 

 salt — swamps, whether in their natural state 

 or when under culture— mill-ponds, and the 

 passage of transient and irregular floods of 

 fresh water over salt marshes. 



2. Accumulation of putrifying matters, ani- 

 mal and vegetable, in towns, their injurious ef- 

 fects on health, and the means of rendering 

 them innoxious, and useful as materials for 

 manure. 



3. Increase or decrease, and greater or less 

 extent and virulence of malarious diseases, in 

 past time and now, and the supposed causes of 

 change. 



4. Means of removing or diminishing the 

 causes of such diseases, within the reach of 

 individual proprietors, and such means as can- 

 not be used without governmental interposi- 

 tion, and compulsory direction. 



XVII. Any of her subjects not here indi- 



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