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On the right hand and left, out stretched, lie the well arranged fields, 
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divided into convenient sizes with a main alley between them, leading to 
the pastures and wood lot. Each enclosure has a well hung gate, so 
knowingly adapted as to be sure to shut itself every time—saving all ne¬ 
cessity of savage dogs, to worry and rend mischief-loving animals who 
walk in when they find the gate open. His neighbors still use bars, and 
some of them even continue to open the rail fence each time they pass, 
for the same old reason, that they never have found time to get up any¬ 
thing better—although some of them are carpenters and joiners—still 
they have spent perhaps a week each in the year taking down bars and 
fences. 
Next let us examine the arrangement of the out buildings. First is 
order is the granary with its convenient bins and appointments, with 
hooks in the rafters, on which is hung carefully triced the well selected 
seed corn for the coming year. The whole superstructure is well elevated 
upon a good stone foundation, making it rat and mouse tight. Here the 
crops, well housed and secure from all harm, can safely await the pro¬ 
per time for market. No previously, and often needlessly contracted 
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debt, for some idle superfluity or folly, compels their sale at a sacrifice. 
Next in order is the barn, all complete even to the doors, not too large 
but well proportioned, with a good basement, giving a fine root house, 
and warm stables opening out into a capacious yard, inclosed with a 
high and tight fence, and over a portion of which temporary straw sheds 
are thrown, making warm shelters for the younger part of the stock, 
which are not fed by throwing their hay into the mud and filth of the 
yard, but into good, though cheap, feeding racks, so constructed that they 
can be easily removed from place to place; and thus admitting of being 
placed under shelter in stormy weather, or removed to drier locations, or 
arranged across the yard to subdivide it into smaller inclosures ; his racks 
save fodder every year, enough to twice or thrice pay their cost; and yet 
his neighbors have never really felt that they could afford to get them 
up. 
Everything about the establishment is carefully arranged with reference 
to saving all the manure. The cattle, instead of having to wander in in¬ 
clement weather half a mile for water, or what is still more common, 
going without it, have a trough of easy access in the yard, kept constantly 
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