. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . g machine, in which he complained ofthe difficulties he had experienced in trying to teach overseersand servants new ways of farm management and labor. Asa proof in point, he said, of the almost impossibility of put-ting the overseers of this country out of the track they havebeen accustomed to walk in, I have one of the most conve-nient barns in this, or perhaps any other country, where thirtyhands may with great ease be employed in thrashing. Halfof the wheat of the farm was actually st
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . g machine, in which he complained ofthe difficulties he had experienced in trying to teach overseersand servants new ways of farm management and labor. Asa proof in point, he said, of the almost impossibility of put-ting the overseers of this country out of the track they havebeen accustomed to walk in, I have one of the most conve-nient barns in this, or perhaps any other country, where thirtyhands may with great ease be employed in thrashing. Halfof the wheat of the farm was actually stowed in this barn, inthe straw, by my order, for thrashing; notwithstanding, whenI came home about the middle of September, I found a tread-ing-yard not thirty feet from the barn door, the wheat againbrought out of the barn, and horses treading it out in a openexposure, liable to the vicissitudes of weather. The great barn here mentioned was circular in form, andthe lower half of the wall was built of bricks. It was threeor four miles from the Mount Yernon Mansion. It was yet AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 41]. ■Washingtons circular barn. standing in the sadlj dilapidated state seen in the when the writer visited Mount Yernon just before thelate Civil War. It was taken down and rebuilt a few yearsago by the present owner of the land. POSTHUMOUS HONOES. On page 346, we have noticed the funeral services in honorof Washington, held in Philadelphia by direction of Con-gress which was in session at the time of his death. It ismentioned that General Lees oration, prepared at the requestof Congress, was pronounced in the Lutheran Church in thatcity. It is yet used as a place of worship by the same denomi-nation of Christians. I here give a correct picture of theedifice, copied from one in Lossings Pictorial Field Booh ofthe War of 1812, in which also appears the accompanyingdelineation of a silver medal in my possession, struck in com-memoration of Washington, immediately after hi
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