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THE CULTIVATOR. 
March. 
bung hole be uppermost. In a little while it will 
begin to work (or ferment.) Once a day fill up your 
barrels with wort, and for this always have a few pails 
of wort more than will fill your barrels the first time 
In three or four days it will have done fermenting. 
Then put into each barrel a handful or two of the spent 
hops, put in the bung tight, so that the least air cannot 
escape. In two weeks it will be fit to tap. 
Ten bushels of good malt will make four barrels of 
good beer, and one barrel of small beer to tap first. 
Some cellars will keep beer better than others. If 
you find the beer not to keep well, add a little more 
hops. If you want a strong barrel of ale, take the first 
drawing of wort; boil as before stated, and let it fer¬ 
ment off well in the barrel, and do not tap for six 
months. You will have a glass of ale as fine as wine, 
and as strong as is desirable. I need not say that 
all the vessels must be scrupulously clean. J ohn Bar- 
Barleycorn. 
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Farm Buildings. 
The comparative merits of barns, as regards econo¬ 
my and space, is an important subject for farmers. The 
old-fashioned buildings are rapidly giving place to the 
new, and comfort and cleanliness are superceding mis¬ 
ery and filth. Once it was thought that a barn with 
large cracks was better for storing green fodder. Now 
men think that a tight barn is best for the same pur¬ 
pose. 
Once, barn cellars for housing manures were scout¬ 
ed. Now such a cavity is considered of the utmost 
importance. Once, liquid manure was considered less 
valuable than solid. Now, the reverse is the case. I 
have recently visited some of the best barns in this 
vicinity, and find them as different from the big tim¬ 
bered, high beamed, cold barns of 30 years ago, as 
chalk is from cheese. One barn in particular I recall. 
It has yellow paint, and a slate roof. The ground on 
which it stands is nearly level, but its whole basement 
is for stabling and manure, and is built of brick. The 
cattle are tied by stanchions; they stand upon a five 
foot platform. Behind them is a gutter two feet wide 
and three inches deep. Back of that is a walk of the 
same width as the gutter. Still farther back, doors 
open in a brick wall, where is' a room the same length 
of the stables, but wider and deeper, for the throwing 
of manure. Large quantities of loam or earth are 
kept dry and from freezing in the corners of this room, 
and are wheeled daily into the stables for litter. 
Where straw is worth $9 per ton, earth is much 
cheaper as an absorbent. By this process the cattle 
are kept clean, and the stables are always sweet and 
comfortable. The mercury did not descend to freezing 
^point in this stable last winter. The hay and grain 
are stored above the cattle, and descend through scut¬ 
tles into a passage-way. in front of the stock. Roots of 
all kinds are abundantly stored in the root cellar. 
These are cut and fed twice a day to the stock, to the 
amount of half a bushel at a time to each animal It 
does not require a large barn to store such fodder for 
20 head of cattle for a winter; besides the cattle come 
out in excellent condition in the spring. The water 
that the cattle drink is nearly of the same tempera¬ 
ture as the stables. Indeed very cold water is an in¬ 
jury to any man or beast. Milkmen understand this 
point, and govern themselves accordingly. Economy 
of space, neatness and warmth are characteristics of 
the building described. J. N. Bagg. 
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Watson’s No-Patent Self-Sustaining Porta¬ 
ble Farm Fence. 
Our friend, Joseph Watson, Esq., of Clyde, has 
planned a very simple and inexpensive Fence to be 
constructed as follows : Each length requires six rails 
12 or 13 ft. long, sawed 1 or If inches, as the strength 
of the timber may require, which with spaces between 
them respectively of 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 inches, and the 
necessary blocking underneath, will make a fence four 
and a half feet high. Two battens and two braces are 
provided for each length, of the same stuff and size as 
the rails, 4 ft. 3 in. long—a 13 foot rail will make three 
with n: loss of stuff. These are nailed as shown in the 
annexed diagram—one 
good clinch nail at 
each crossing being 
sufficient. The battens 
are placed as will be noted, one on the outside and one 
on the inside of the fence, and when the batten at the 
right end of one length is on the outside, that on the 
right end of the next length should be on the inside, 
this alternation being necessary to bind the fence more 
securely. The battens project, one above and the other 
below the last rail three inches. 
When the fence is placed in position, the ends of the 
panels are secured to each other by a fastening of No. 
9 annealed wire connecting the two battens that come 
together, and by its length determining the angle of 
the two panels of fence with each other, and its conse¬ 
quent worm. A hook in each end of the wire unites 
them, and when the fence is to be removed, can be 
easily unhooked by giving the panels a more acute 
angle. The small surface presented to the wind by 
this fence, being only 18 perpendicular inches, and five 
wide spaces, renders it little liable to be blown away, 
and as only about 30 feet of inch boards, and 48 nails 
are required to the rod, the cost of the whole, including 
the labor of putting together by any mechanical far¬ 
mer at reasonable prices, cannot exceed Fifty Csent 
a Rod! 
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The White Daisy. 
Messrs. Editors —Can you inform me as to the 
most effectual way to kill out the White Daisy? If 
you can, you will do me a great favor. Five years ago 
I bought a farm, and part of it is over-run with daisy. 
I have plowed the sod both fall and spring, and plant¬ 
ed to corn; the next spring sowed to oats ; in Septem¬ 
ber plowed and sown to rye. The next summer when 
it came in grass the daisy was as thick as ever. It ap¬ 
pears that every little root makes a new plant. 0 W. 
Will some of our readers who have had successful 
experience with extirpating this weed, please give us 
their mode ? 
No plant can grow without leaves exposed to the air 
—hence plowing under often enough (and not too often, 
so as to turn up too soon,) will smother any plant if the 
work is well done. The earth may, however, be full of 
seed, and need a long time to start and destroy every 
one. We have never known any farmer to be much 
troubled with the daisy, who pursued a regular, long 
continued rotation of crops, accompanied with thorough 
and cleanly cultivation. There may, however, be ex¬ 
ceptions. 
